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Category Archives: SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
Fishwrap’s nutty over Card. Sarah’s address in Germany
Over at the Fishwrap (aka National Schismatic Reporter) the “Wile E. Coyote of contemporary liberal catholicism”, Michael Sean Winters, had a nutty about Card. Sarah’s message to the Summorum Pontificum colloquium in Germany. HERE He picked on the new ICEL translation a bit, blah … Read More
PODCAzT 153: Card. Sarah’s 2017 ‘Summorum Pontificum’ Address – URGENT
His Eminence Robert Card. Sarah, Prefect of the CDW, gave an fantastic talk in Germany on the occasion of a colloquium held for the 10th Anniversary of Summorum Pontificum, Benedict’s XVI’s “emancipation proclamation” for the older, traditional form of the Roman … Read More
PHOTOS: Pontifical Mass for St. Joseph
Last night the Extraordinary Ordinary of Madison, His Excellency Most Reverend Robert C. Morlino, celebrated a Pontifical Mass at the Throne for the glorious Feast of St. Joseph, this year transferred because of the Sunday of Lent. The Mass was … Read More
BRILLIANT by Mosebach: RETURN TO FORM – A CALL FOR THE RESTORATION OF THE ROMAN RITE
I have often lauded the important book by Martin Mosebach The Heresy of Formlessness. I warmly recommend it. US HERE – UK HERE As a matter of fact, it was first on my suggestions for Lenten reading. HERE First Things has published a … Read More
Posted in ¡Hagan lío!, "How To..." - Practical Notes, Benedict XVI, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Liberals, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Si vis pacem para bellum!, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The Coming Storm, The future and our choices
Tagged Martin Mosebach, Reform of the Reform, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
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VIDEO: Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage 2016 and 2017
Each year I very much like to attend in Rome the Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage. Here is a video with moments from last year’s events along with an invitation from my old friend Archbp. Sample of Portand.
Answers to “Dubia” from the Vatican! About the Traditional Mass and overly restrictive bishops.
If you are a priest who has been hassled by your bishop about saying the traditional Mass with the 1962 Missale Romanum, pay attention. Help has arrived. Recently a priest of my acquaintance sent two questions to my old haunts the … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, 1983 CIC can. 915, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Mail from priests, Si vis pacem para bellum!, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
Tagged can. 249, coetus, coetus fidelium, dubia, idoneus, PCED, Pontifical Commission "Ecclesia Dei", SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, Universae Ecclesiae
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A word for the wise (bishop) from Summorum Pontificum
Summorum Pontificum, Benedict XVI’s Motu Proprio, applies to the entire Latin Church. Bishops can’t override it. Some articles of SP get more attention than others. Here is one which might not be immediately present in your mind: Art. 7. Ubi aliquis coetus … Read More
Solemn Mass Green Eye Candy
As Prez of the Tridentine Mass Society of the Diocese of Madison, I want to leave it all on the field. We are doing our best to SAVE THE WORLD, one Mass at a time. We want Holy Mass to … Read More
ASK FATHER: Can priests say the “Tridentine Mass” alone, without a server?
From a priest… QUAERITUR: I know that Canon Law currently permits, although discourages, a priest to say a Mass alone (i.e. without server or faithful). I’ve heard that previously, it was forbidden under penalty of mortal sin to say Mass … Read More
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