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Category Archives: Our Catholic Identity
A rock band’s Latin Credo
I picked this up from Vatican Insider: Ooberfuse have just released a new single. “We explore old truths related to faith using contemporary language” GIORGIO BERNARDELLI MILAN “Credo in unum Deum, patrem, creatorem coeli et terrae, visibilium et invisibilium.” The … Read More
Vatican II – WDTPRS POLL
I was sent this cartoon. True? “Vatican II opened up the Church… and the people left!” The statement in the cartoon is black and white, but it provides grist for civil conversation in the combox. One thing that is interesting … Read More
Posted in Lighter fare, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, POLLS, Vatican II, Year of Faith
Tagged Vatican II
120 Comments
120 Comments
QUAERITUR: A stable group petitioned the Extraordinary Form, but the “parish council” says NO!
From a young reader: I am a sixteen year old boy, who has requested a TLM mass at my parish a number of times unofficially. After getting several unsatisfactory results, I decided to send a short concise petition to the … Read More
Benedict XVI on Year of Faith: “a pilgrimage in the deserts of today’s world, taking with us only what is necessary”
“Reference to the documents saves us from extremes of anachronistic nostalgia and running too far ahead, and allows what is new to be welcomed in a context of continuity.” Thus, Benedict XVI during his homily for the Opening of the Year … Read More
DETROIT 13 October: Call To Holiness Conference
Those of you anywhere near Detroit will be glad to know that the 14th Call To Holiness Conference will be held on Saturday, 13 October. Lot’s of information about the conference HERE. Today is the last day (until midnight EST) … Read More
Posted in Our Catholic Identity, The future and our choices, Year of Faith
Tagged Call To Holiness, Detroit
5 Comments
5 Comments
Some feedback
From a reader: I do not have any question to ask you, but I just wanted to say thank you for your promotion and education on your blog of the Extraordinary Form of the Mass. I have only been to … Read More
Posted in Brick by Brick, Our Catholic Identity, Reader Feedback, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
Tagged TLM
7 Comments
7 Comments
QUAERITUR: Can a traditionalist priest require women to cover their heads during Mass?
From a reader: I have read web sites from FSSP Traditional parishes that indicate women are to cover their heads during Mass. My understanding is that the requirement was removed from Canon Law, thus it is no longer a sin … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, Universae Ecclesiae
Tagged chapel veil, head coverings, mantillas, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The Wrath Of The Whatever From High Atop The Thing, UE 28, Universae Ecclesiae
45 Comments
45 Comments
Is something being done about the “homosexual Masses” in London?
I picked this up from Marco Tossati at Vatican Insider – in Italian – about the homosexual Masses being celebrated in London in the Soho district at the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption and Saint Gregory (not at St. Patrick’s on … Read More
“I want to share why I choose to wear a veil… and why I love it.”
At the blog Fide Et Literis: By Faith & Learning there is a post entitled I love my chapel veil. She wrote: I recently read an article about the comeback of chapel veils entitled, “Head covering is thinly veiled patriarchy.” The … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged chapel veil, head coverings, mantillas, women
42 Comments
42 Comments
The Synod so far: something missing….
As you know, the Synod of Bishops in meeting in Rome, again. The theme this time: The New Evangelization for the Transmission of the Christian Faith So far in the interventions (speeches) HERE I have not yet seen any mention … Read More
Joe in Canada on WDTPRS – 20th Ordinary Sunday (Novus Ordo): snatched up into invisible love: “A priest saying the NO Mass could choose to sing it, even in Latin. But a priest offering a low…”
