Monthly Archives: September 2007

A kind reader sent a link to an article in the Bismarck Tribune about how His Excellency Most Reverend Paul Zipfel, Bishop of Bismarck, approaches the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum.  Let’s dig into the article, with a few caveats. My … Read More →

Seldom have entries on this blog stirred emotions and produced e-mail as did what I wrote about reports coming from the Pontifical College Josephinum. Since I have scores of e-mails on this issue in my inbox which I cannot possibly … Read More →

This morning I head to the airport to fly back to the USA.   I won’t have a lot of time when I change planes after customs, so I am unsure about getting online until… well… late. I have a lot … Read More →

I posted a poll in another entry.  Comments can be made there. {democracy:18}

A kind reader sent this new: To implement the Motu Proprio "Summorum Pontificum"  His Eminence George Cardinal Pell, Archbishop of Sydney will celebrate Pontifical Mass tthe Throne according to the Extraordinary Form of the Latin Rite at St. Mary’s Cathedral … Read More →

Some days ago I posted something sent to me by a seminarian at the Pontifical College Josephinum in the USA about statements made by faculty about the Holy Father’s Motu Proprio.   If what this seminarian reported was true, the … Read More →

His Excellency Most Reverend Dolan, Archbishop of Milwaukee.  My emphases and comments.    7/17/2007 Dear Friends United in Love and Service of Jesus Christ and His Church: You remember Chicken Little? [?] This poor chick saw calamity in everything.  Whatever … Read More →

I received a good bit of news today.  A WDTPRS reader sent me a copy of correspondence with the Rector of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington D.C., Msgr. Walter R. Rossi. Here is … Read More →

This morning very early I set out from Rome for London once again. I had a few very good days in the Eternal City, catching up with friends and running errands.  For example, yesterday the Pope was in my diocese.  … Read More →

As you probably know I am in Rome right now.  I will be heading back to the USA via London early next week. During my all too brief Roman sojourn, I have been catching up with people and news. One … Read More →

The traditionalist newspaper The Remnant interviewed by good friend Fr. John Echert, pastor of St. Augustine’s in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.  St. Augustine was the single parish in that Archdiocese where people could find approved celebrations of … Read More →

The Archdiocese of New Orleans has issued its guidelines for Summorum Pontificum. My emphases and comments. GUIDELINES FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM The Holy Father wrote to the bishops with great trust and hope that his apostolic letter Summorum … Read More →

Here is very interesting development.  This piece is from the St. Louis Review: My emphases and comments.     Archdiocesan priests attend meeting on Latin Mass rules     by Jennifer Brinker, Review Staff Writer     Priests of the archdiocese interested in … Read More →

One of the great liturgists of the 20th century, vastly under appreciated in his day, was Klaus Gamber.  When writing about the post-Conciliar reforms he held that perhaps the most damaging change made was the shift from celebration of Mass … Read More →

Here is an interesting little piece from Zenit with remarks made by Card. Pell of Sydney about the Holy Father’s Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum. Cardinal Pell: Pope Didn’t Turn Back Time SYDNEY, Australia, SEPT. 21, 2007 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI’s move … Read More →

Under another entry someone brought up the question of what to call the older form of Mass.  I guess by now regular readers here are used to seeing me write "the older form of Mass".  I am comfortable with that … Read More →

And now for your Motu Proprio parsing pleasure… Someone sent me a transcript of a statement by His Excellency Most Reverend William Murphy, Bishop of the Diocese of Rockville Centre, NY.  It was in His Excellency’s column in The Long … Read More →

The Archbishop of Hartford, His Excellency Most Reverend Henry J. Mansell, made a statement on the Motu Proprio and the older form of Mass. I think you are going to like this!  I did! My emphases and comments.    Archbishop’s … Read More →

The Bishop of Alexandria in Louisiana, His Excellency Most Reverend Ronald P. Herzog, has sent a Memorandum to his priests about the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum. My emphases and comments.   MEMO to Priests: September 11, 2007 RE: Motu Proprio … Read More →