Category Archives: SESSIUNCULA

It is an honor and duty to pray for benefactors. I will have Mass for those who have been of help, donors and benefactors, at 2130GMT – 1730EDT. Please join your prayers to the Holy Sacrifice.

The intrepid Andrea Tornielli, whose columns and blog you readers of Italian should look at everyday, has a piece on the possible successor of H.E. Most Rev. Malcolm Ranjith as Secretary of the Cong. for Divine Worship. Tornielli has suggested … Read More →

Does anyone have experience of using USB extenders using CAT5?

I picked up from the Papa Ratzinger blog, an Italian site, that at the Basilica of the Holy Cross of Jerusalem in Rome, a basilica of profound historical importance, the Cistercian Abott of the monastery has been removed as the … Read More →

When you simply have to know about the weather in the Vatican City State. And when you need a view of St. Peter’s Square.

Catholics used to put the words Porta Caeli over the doors of their churches. But another gate, the Gate of Heavenly Peace or Tian’anmén was the site of a terrible thing 20 years ago.

The cause for beatification of Venerable John Henry Newman, the convert, Cardinal, and theologian is going apace. From time to time you may have read some revisionist theory from a self-interested writer absurdly suggesting that Newman was homosexual.   Rubbish. A … Read More →

There is a particularly disgusting article in the Jesuit-run America Magazine by John W. O’Malley, S.J., of the theology department at Georgetown University. While this is sort of old news now, I think it deserves a fisk. Before continuing, please … Read More →