Monthly Archives: February 2009

The Holy Father has processed from Sant’Anselmo on the Aventine Hill to Santa Sabina for the Station Mass of Ash Wednesday. As I write he is vesting for Mass. It is live on various streams. I have the sermon and … Read More →

Damian at Holy Smoke reports that The Tablet, after launching bitter personal attacks on Fr. Finigan of The Hermeneutic of Continuity, will not publish a contrasting letter by a once favored contributor, the fine composer James MacMillan. Since The Tablet … Read More →

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 … Read More →

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 … Read More →

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 … Read More →

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 … Read More →

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 … Read More →

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 … Read More →

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 … Read More →

The Tablet is dedicated to attacking the Holy See on the matter of the unity of the Church if that unity includes traditional Catholics. For The Tablet and some of its contributors, the Church is for the liberally pure. Continuity … Read More →

The Pope’s enemies have skulked out of the forest and are forming packs.  They seek to hound the Pope, bite at him, drive him from the direction he is leading the Church. A couple days ago I posted about the … Read More →