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Category Archives: Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
The Tablet equates striking the breast during the Confiteor with child abuse.
At The Tablet aka The Bitter Pill, there is a piece by one Melanie Lately, a guest contributor, which deserves our attention – and not because of its excellence. Commentators in the combox over there have dealt with the obvious … Read More
Worth a thousand “spirits of Vatican II”
From the blog Musings of a Pertinacious Papist comes an interesting observation in the form of a photograph. Here is an example of the changes that were to be made to the sanctuary of a church in conformity with the … Read More
QUAERITUR: The arrangement of Stations of the Cross
From a reader: I was wondering if the stations have to be in a certain direction in the church. I was in a church where they were just arranged on a single wall in rows one above the other in … Read More
How to make your parish more self-centered
Tim Drake, a columnist for the National Catholic Register (Register – Good. Reporter – Bad.) has 14 points for how to make your parish more self-centered. (The point is: Parishes should not be self-centered.) Here are the points. You can … Read More
Too stupid for words: planting trees instead of going to confession
I am not making this up. This is from Treehugger. Really. Priest in Brazil Replaces Prayer With Tree-Planting by Stephen Messenger, Porto Alegre, Brazil on 06.22.11 Planting trees may be a great way to help save the environment, but thanks … Read More
Vienna: Another sacrilegious “Western Mass”
Yet again, a sacrilegious “Western Mass” was celebrated in Austria with the approval of Card. Schoenborn, Archbishop of Vienna. This happened again, in pretty much the same way. despite the fact that it happened last year.
More American Catholic Council joy in Detroit! A local TV report.
There was a story on the local news about the American Catholic Council… Council… get it? Council? Several points in the report were misleading. For example, there could only be canonical consequences, realistically, for clerics of the Archdiocese of Detroit … Read More
QUAERITUR: Giving Redemptionis Sacramentum to a priest to correct him.
From a reader: Do you think it would be a good idea to give a parish priest and the curates a copy each of Redemptionis Sacramentum for Christmas or as a random gift? [Does that mean “anonymous” gift, or a … Read More
UPDATE: Altar girls and the Extraordinary Form – the PCED clarifies the situation
The Instruction on the application of the provisions of Summorum Pontificum, entitled Universae Ecclesiae, in paragraph 28, says in an English version: Furthermore, by virtue of its character of special law, within its own area, the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum … Read More
