His Excellency Most Rev. Michael Evans, Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of East Anglia has commented on his website about the lifting of the excommunications of the four SSPX bishops.
Shall we have a look?  My emphases and comments: 
STILL IN SCHISM … Continue reading →

I had an e-mail which is both sad and uplifting.
Sad because the obvious decline of religious life.
Uplifting because of the potential and the fact that someone wants to do something about it.
Parishes far and wide are trying to figure out … Continue reading →

Do you say the office, from either devotion and/or obligation?
Change your volume and get your ribbons set up.

A reader sent a fun note:
Father,
I saw this prayer on the website of the Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions.  As you are well-aware, many members of the Federation are the same people who are on the “progressive” side of the … Continue reading →

We haven’t heard much from His Excellency Archbishop Malcolm Ranjith lately.  He is the indomitable and clear-thinking Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments.
CWN has posted that Archbp. Ranjith wrote a forward to a book … Continue reading →

A tip of the biretta to Vincenzo for alerting us to this glimpse of Mel Gibson’s new movie!
THE COLONEL
(WARNING: Some scenes may be disturbing.)
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1nluSJfxCg]

This is hilarious.  His Hermeneuticalness, Fr. Tim Finigan, who was recently the object of a mean-spirited hit-piece by Elena Curti in the pages of The Tablet, writes:
CENSORED!
The Tablet have asked me to remove this post because it is a breach … Continue reading →

I parsed Kmiec in TIME.
Take a look at these pieces by Card. Ruini and Card. Scola on secularism.  They are posted by Sandro Magister.
Lead off:
Here is how they see the Church’s role in the public sphere: if it were silent, … Continue reading →

Lot’s of parishes have a car, for the practical use of the staff.
This could have been parked along side the Railians at St. Mary’s in Brisbane last Sunday.

From one of my daily sites, Engrish.

Not a few people have written me e-mails along the lines:
"How could the Holy Father appoint to New York a bishop who celebrated Mass wearing a ‘cheesehead’ hat?"
The reference is to Archbp. Timothy Dolan who has been moved from Milwaukee … Continue reading →