Category Archives: SESSIUNCULA

Sometime you have to perform an autopsy to find the cause of death.  It’s messy but interesting. And so we come to the strange case of Richard McBrien. Luckily for us, he cuts is own cranium open for us and … Read More →

His Hermeneuticalness redirected me to a pointed observation made by the irrepressible Diogenes of Off The Record. He tackles the dreadful Q&A His Eminence Roger Card. Mahony engaged in online from the LA Three Days of Darkness… er um… Religious … Read More →

NLM has an interesting piece about altar decorations right now. I have nightmares still from my seminary days about the profoundly weird but apparently meaningful things done to the altar and space around it. Lent was a particularly trying season. … Read More →

Typical of the shrill dissent sadly … nay rather tragically emanating from many groups of women religious in the United States, some of the liberated religious gals are going to resist the announced Visitation. The is from the excellent Catholic … Read More →

Apparently something interesting happened on the waves of Vatican Radio.   Don’t be shocked.  It happens. A Benedictine priest, p. Ildebrando Scicolone, OSB, professor of liturgy at a Pontifical Athenaeum, Sant’Anselmo, was, apparently, on Vatican Radio and, apparently, trashed Summorum … Read More →

SSPX Bp. Williamson is using his blog to think aloud about the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins. This is a good occupation for him. He concludes his entry: Could weary men but once more find their wayTo God, how light … Read More →

A kind reader sent me a translation of the interview Der Spiegel did with SSPX Bp. Fellay, their superior. My emphases and comments. Williamson Apology ‘A Step in Right Direction’ Bishop Bernard Fellay, head of the Society of Saint Pius … Read More →

Please pray for His Eminence Francis Card. Arinze as he leads the Lenten days of reflection for the Holy Father and the Curia.