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Category Archives: REVIEWS
19 February 2012
Catholic Herald notes
In the digital edition of the UK’s best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald, I saw a great pieces.
First, and I think this is only on the full, digital edition and not on the website, there is an article by Edward … Continue reading
Posted in Our Catholic Identity, REVIEWS
Tagged Ban Ki Moon, chapels, homosexuality, LENT, Msgr. Wadsworth, The Catholic Herald, UN
11 Comments
4 February 2012
Movie night
I am settling in for a movie and supper. Tonight I’ll watch an old favorite, the 1998 Les Miserables with Geoffrey Rush as Javert and Liam Neeson as Jean Valjean. No movie would get everything that Victor Hugo pressed into … Continue reading
31 January 2012
REVIEW: Convenient TLM “travel” altar card set for Mass kits. GREAT! Hey, Father! Check ‘em out!
Want to promote the New Evanglization?
Looking for something to give a bishop, priest or seminarian?
Want to complete that Mass kit or home altar?
The “Society for the Preservation of Roman Catholic Heritage” (SPORCH … yah, I know) has developed extremely convenient … Continue reading
9 January 2012
REVIEW: The Roman Catholic Ceremonial: Volume I. The Ordinary Ceremonies by Jeffrey Collins.
Liturgical worship should be reverent, careful and the best we can accomplish. The expanding use of the Extraordinary Form will help to correct many of the aberrations inflicted on people through the Ordinary Form. Therefore, every priest, every seminarian, as … Continue reading
21 December 2011
REVIEW: FSSP TLM ORDO
The nice people at the Fraternity of St. Peter’s offices sent me a copy of their Ordo.
I looked at the Angelus Press Ordo recently and posted about it.
My initial observations about the FSSP Ordo are a) the FSSP is in … Continue reading
Posted in Ecclesiae unitatem, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, REVIEWS, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, Universae Ecclesiae
Tagged FSSP, Ordo
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12 December 2011
A reading tip – Catholic Priests Falsely Accused: The Facts, The Fraud, The Stories
Not exactly light reading, but this is an important topic… and not just for priests and bishops! Everyone should be concerned about this.
Check out David F. Pierre Jr.’s book Catholic Priests Falsely Accused: The Facts, The Fraud, The Stories.
It is … Continue reading
1 December 2011
REVIEW: iPhone “Advent App” from Magnificat
I was sent a code for an iPhone/iPad app for Advent developed by the folks who put out the Magnificat liturgical aid. Click HERE for a link to the app. $0.99 in iTunes.
Advent Companion App is a fusion of … Continue reading
26 November 2011
CTS (UK) People’s Edition of the Roman Missal (“hand missal” for Ordinary Form)
The other day I received and reviewed the Altar Edition of the new Roman Missal (with the new corrected translation) published by the Catholic Truth Society in England. It is a wonderful book, and on reflection I think it … Continue reading
24 November 2011
REVIEW: The Father’s Tale by Michael D. O’Brien
A rapid book recommendation.
I am reading the new novel by Michael O’Brien, author the Father Elijah (which if you haven’t read, get it and read it and then read his trilogy which connects back into it) and many others. A … Continue reading
23 November 2011
REVIEW: Roman Missal from the Catholic Truth Society (UK) – spiffing!
At long last I received my new altar edition of the Roman Missal by the Catholic Truth Society in England. The book was ridiculously held up in customs. I have looked virtually all the new missals. … Continue reading
5 November 2011
Book recommendation: Constantine – Unconquered Emperor, Christian Victor by Paul Stephenson
His Hermeneuticalness, Fr Tim Finigan, recommended this book to me. I got it and I am glad I did. I now recommend it to you.
As a bonus to you Kindle owners, you can get the Kindle version for only $6.19! … Continue reading
22 October 2011
REVIEW: New editions of the Roman Missal SIDE BY SIDE
Yesterday I was at Leaflet Missal Company in St. Paul, Minnesota. The Church goods section there, run by John, can provide priests with the best traditional stuff.
John of Church Goods put out all the US editions of the new, corrected … Continue reading
10 September 2011
MENE MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN – REVIEW: Mark Steyn – After America: Get Ready for Armageddon
I am reading Mark Steyn’s brilliant After America: Get Ready for Armageddon.
USA book click here.
USA Kindle book click here. (Text-to-Speech enabled)
UK book click here. UK doesn’t have a separate Kindle version yet.
Readers in the USA, this is a good book. … Continue reading
22 June 2011
When people say stupid things about the Church, can you respond? REVIEW: Michael Coren
This note from The Catholic League about the ignorant boor and failed-TV personality Keith Olbermann gives me a chance to talk about something else.
But first, the note from The Catholic League’s Bill Donohue:
OLBERMANN’S IGNORANCE IS APPALLING
On last night’s edition of … Continue reading
3 June 2011
REVIEW: Guessing how to sing that prayer? Not any more. Canticum Clericorum Romanum, Vol. I.
Clerics! Seminarians! Rejoice!
I received a new book for review from the Canons at St. John Cantius in Chicago.
This is a book they prepared.
Here is the LINK. Before I even tell you about it, it costs US$275.
Worth every penny.
This is a … Continue reading
