Category Archives: SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM

Another Traditional Latin Mass cancelled! Happy New Year! – UPDATED… sad

Happy New Year! ? Another Latin Mass CANCELLED. Two minutes before Mass yesterday, St Stanislaus in New Haven, CT, was informed by @ArchbishopBlair that their Latin Mass will no longer exist as of January 14th. Who’s next? https://t.co/REWZQtLYNa pic.twitter.com/jWSeytWLsq — … Read More

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Old Mass – New Mass. A few comments and a video.

I saw again videos from Mass of Ages.  They are very good and I recommend them.  I’m puzzled by their choices of whom to speak with.  But… hey. This is one of the most powerful things I have ever seen … Read More

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Raymond Arroyo video interviews with Ed Pentin, Damian Thompson, Archbp. Gänswein

Raymond Arroyo interviewed Archbp. Georg Gänswein on his recent show.  (BTW… that ä means his name is pronounced like “gens-vine” not “gans-wine”).  Please. At a certain point, Raymond asked Gänswein about what Benedict XVI thought about his own motu proprio Summorum … Read More

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More tears shed in St. Louis.

From The Federalist: St. Louis Archdiocese Closes Thriving Traditional Latin Mass Parish […] As a result of all those meetings and focus groups, St. Barnabas, a growing Traditional Latin Mass parish with children consisting of 35 percent of the congregation, … Read More

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Adventures in Sunday Worship: St. Anne’s and the Season of Creation

My heart goes out to people who are constrained either to attend Sunday Masses at parishes where weird stuff goes on or have to drive great distances.  My heart is broken for people whose shepherds deny them their Christian dignity by … Read More

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14 September: Exaltation of the Cross and Anniversary of Summorum Pontificum. Wherein Fr. Z rants.

Today, the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, is also the anniversary of the 2007 Summorum Pontificum going into effect.  This Motu Proprio – the Emancipation Proclamation for the faithful who desire the Vetus Ordo – was a keystone … Read More

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Diocese of Orange: TLM cancelled

Remember, that the attacks on the Traditional Latin Mass are really attacks on the PEOPLE who desire it. I received this from a reader… How might one respond to this letter?   How about something like this. Dear Father Quang, Thank … Read More

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The persecution of traditional Catholic faithful continues: TLM forbidden at St. John Vianney’s shrine in France

Remember: It’s not just the rites that they fear, because they make them uncomfortable, it’s the people who desire those rites whom they really distain. It’s the people. The TLM is effectively banned at the Shrine of Ars. How is … Read More

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BELATED ANNIVERSARY! 2nd year of “Traditionis custodes”.

It occurs to me that we missed celebrating the 2nd anniversary of the stupidly unnecessary, falsely grounded and wickedly cruel attack on the people who desire the Traditional Latin Mass via the document Taurina cacata… er… um… Traditionis custodes. In … Read More

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16th Anniversary of Summorum Pontificum – Thoughts on how this might end and a fitting song.

Sincerely, I think all this madness will pass one way or another. Today is the anniversary of the release of Summorum Pontificum, the saintly Pope Benedict XVI’s “emancipation proclamation” for those who desired what they ought to have had all along: freedom … Read More

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20 Feb 2023 Rescript ex audientia – The Dictastery for Worship tattled and got some tape and glue to patch up their paddle

And people ask me why I post a lot about chess these days. The Congregation Dicastery for Worship has become a parody of itself. So much for the ‘Social Justice’ Principle of Subsidiarity! Translated: The Holy Father, in the Audience … Read More

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There’s a bad moon on the rise

There’s this. More from the reign of terror…. GRAVE NEWS Peter Kwasniewski has posted the following letter from a bishop to a TLM priest explaining the new restrictions from Roche (1 of 2) pic.twitter.com/9DuEWEXlFk — Nick Donnelly (@ProtecttheFaith) February 6, … Read More

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Crisis: Will today’s shepherds provoke a schism as they have in the past?

I am from the Twin Cities, Minneapolis and St. Paul, where, back in the day, the “consecrated blizzard of the North”, Archbp. John Ireland (nomen omen) drove thousands of Ruthenian Catholics into schism by his narrow prejudices and tyrannical attitude. … Read More

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Pope Benedict XVI – Requiescat in pace

I was privileged to have known him well before his election. His loss is a personal loss. Apart from his contributions as a priest, prefect and theologian, two of his accomplishments as Pope stand out for me. Summorum Pontificum – … Read More

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The Federalist’s reaction to the “Hell’s Bible” hit piece against TLM-going Catholics

A couple weeks back Hell’s Bible (aka NYT) published an airy yet vicious attack piece about Catholics who attended the Traditional Latin Mass.  Apparently, if you go to the Vetus Ordo, you might be a white right-wing extremist of some … Read More

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Chicago: Cathedral Rosary Rally for the restoration of the TLM interrupted by an assault

This deserves wider attention.   It underscores the attitude of cruelty unleashed in the tragically ill-conceived, ineptly named Traditionis custodes. In that unfortunate Archdiocese of Chicago, this … at the cathedral. From 1 Peter 5: Chicago Rosary Rally Assaulted Since February … Read More

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In honor of Traditionis custodes… not. “Lord, we ask on this dark day – Make this nuisance go away. Amen.”

And there’s this… ACTION ITEM! Be a “Custos Traditionis”! Join an association of prayer for the reversal of “Traditionis custodes”. HERE

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ASK FATHER: Should priests wear the biretta when preaching? Wherein Fr. Z rants.

From a priestly reader… QUAERITUR: I cannot find when to use the Biretta at the Homily, should it be worn, if so, then does one wear at for the Epistle & Gospel readings in the vernacular/English? Thank you for your … Read More

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Wherein Mr. Cricket goes to the Zoo

Forgive typos… I am writing under time constraint and pressures. Biretta tip to Peter Kwasniewski  – o{]:¬) – for the following from Mr Cricket, Andrea Grillo, whose photo on his blog looks like – and it is exactly what he is … Read More

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Persecution by Rome of the Bp. of Fréjus-Toulon – UPDATED

I firmly believe that their overreach will overtake them. Hitherto, Bp. Rey of Fréjus-Toulon in France has been open to accepting traditionally-minded seminarians and religious. Vocations in that diocese were up, unlike the rest of France. Hence, Rome is now … Read More

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