Category Archives: SESSIUNCULA

I am getting strange and even hysterical e-mail from quite a few people about VP candidate Sarah Palin being an "apostate Catholic".  "BUT FATHER! BUT FATHERFATHERFATHER! WHY aren’t YOU paying ATTENTION to THIS??!?!?!?". Some e-mail is reasonable and mature.  Some … Read More →

Following on various entries concerning ad orientem worship, and my request that people post their experiences of Holy Mass celebrated ad orientem…. Fr. John Trigilio now posts this, about implementing ad orientem worship in his parish. My emphases and comments. … Read More →

The Bishop of Sioux City, Iowa, Most Rev. R. Walker Nickless in his diocesan paper The Catholic Globe has issued a statement about Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her distortions of Catholic teaching on human life. This is actually like a … Read More →

I am getting notices that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has accepted His Excellency Archbp. Niederauer’s invitation to "converse" about a few things. I solidarity with other blogs, I note that American Papist wrote about this too. Here … Read More →

In another entry there is discussion of the reintroduction of ad orientem worship in a parish. A priest made this comment: it helped VERY much when laypeople actually gave me positive comments about attending Mass ad orientem.   I put … Read More →

One the most damaging “reforms” implemented after the Council, founded on the excuse of poor scholarship, false archeologizing, and the “spirit of the Council”, is the so-called turned around altar for Mass “facing the people”, versus populum. This certainly was … Read More →

In The Catholic Sentinel His Excellency Most Reverend Robert Vasa, Bishop of Baker, Oregon, has interesting comments in the wake of the erroneous remarks of Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Meet The Press about the beginning of human life and the … Read More →

Here is an interesting opinion piece from The Times. This is a fascinating bit of writing with provocative insights.  Not the usual blather I have been scanning. My emphases and comments. September 5, 2008 Sarah Palin: it’s go west, towards … Read More →

I know Alaska is very much in the public eye right now, but here is a different angle. I received a notice by e-mail about photos from Summorum Pontificum Alaska: With special thanks to Archbishop Roger L. Schwietz, OMI, the … Read More →

UPDATE 15:49 GMT 5 Sept: American Papist has a fascinating observation: AmP reader Desiderius asks: "Note the Abp’s message was printed simultaneously in The Tidings (Los Angeles), obviously [well, reasonably – AmP] a coordinated effort. Might one conclude this suffices … Read More →