Monthly Archives: March 2008

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. … Read More →

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 … Read More →

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 … Read More →

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 … Read More →

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 … Read More →

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 … Read More →

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.  … Read More →

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 … Read More →

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 … Read More →

Fed up? Nothing gives quite the same sensation as popping bubblewrap. Go ahead… click… and then come back to let us know how it went. "Must have mooorrre ! ! !" … a new WDTPRS motto!

I got a question via e-mail:  Hi Father. At the end of Mass today in Christ the King Chapel at Franciscan, the EF Mass taking place this Sunday was announced – however, we were told that if we were going … Read More →

Darío Card. Castrillón Hoyos, President of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, gave an interview to L’Osservatore Romano. I am thinking that this does two things.  First, he is shoring up what the Holy Father has been saying about ad orientem … Read More →

  Fr. Guy Selvester, a blogger I respect who often comments here, I am glad to say, has taken WDTPRS and others to task for supporting the hearing of confessions on Good Friday and Holy Saturday. He states acknowledges that … Read More →

  I am just now started to get more interested in this story. As you know the Holy Father baptized a Muslim at the Easter Vigil, Magdi Allam, vice-director of the Italian daily Corriere della Sera.  Some reactions have been … Read More →