Credit must be given when credit is due!
Trautman to skip graduation in protest of Clinton visit
Erie Catholic Bishop Donald W. Trautman will not attend the Mercyhurst College graduation in protest over Sen. Hillary Clinton’s visit to campus Tuesday.
Trautman issued a … Continue reading →

I was recently told that on BBC 4 radio there is a program about Palestrina and the Popes. 
Alas, you can’t hear via internet this outside the UK.
Any chance one of you might have captured it?
Drop me a line if … Continue reading →

About that papal skateboard:

Biretta tip   o{]:¬)   to Fr. Blake and the Curt Jester.  

I often wonder what it is that critics of Summorum Pontificum are really objecting to.
Some say that they object to the "out dated" ecclesiology.
Quite often I think their objections go deeper… to Catholic moral teaching.
Traditional liturgy usually goes hand in … Continue reading →

The great Fr. Finigan, hopefully soon to be the next Archbishop of Westminster, has pointed out the existence of Wikimissa, a directory of traditional Masses worldwide.
This could be a very valuable tool.
For example, if this is kept up to … Continue reading →

Now that the intense days of Holy Week have passed and I have begun to catch up on my backlog, I have had some time to review a few back copies of the publication Mass of Ages, which the kind … Continue reading →

Fellow patristiblogger Mike Aquilina has this over at his place:
Constanze Witt of the Department Of Classics at the University of Texas posted the following to a medieval list.

Not all sensational finds come out of the ground! Augustine scholars will be … Continue reading →

This morning I got another confirmation from one of my spies that Bp. Rino Fisichella is being considered for the post of Secretary of the CDF.
That would mean that the Rector position at the Lateran University would open up.  It … Continue reading →

Anyone out there in the UK with fast internet and a Slingbox hooked up to a DVR? 
Drop me a line!

There is rumors of curial changes afoot.  Check the blog of Andrea Tornielli:
The change of the guard foreseen at the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, the Vatican’s "liturgy ministry": Nigerian Cardinal Francis Arinze (who turned … Continue reading →

A few of you have recently use the donation button on the left side bar, or perhaps on the entries for the PODCAzTs and PRAYERCAzTs. 
Thank you very much! 
I try to send an individual thank you back by e-mail … Continue reading →