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Category Archives: SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
News about TLM training for seminarians
Summorum Pontificum has been in force for over two years. That is more than enough time to figure out how to integrate training of seminarians into programs of formation. In another entry, I had asked seminarians to send reports about … Read More
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Seminary TLM training? A shout to seminarians!
It has been over two years since Summorum Pontificum went into effect. That is more than enough time for seminaries to get with the program and start providing both the Ordinary and the Extraordinary Form. In the Brick by Brick … Read More
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Dialogue begins with Society of St. Pius X
From CNA: Vatican begins dialogue with Society of St. Pius X Vatican City, Oct 26, 2009 / 02:23 pm (CNA).- A meeting today between representatives of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) and officials from the Vatican identified the … Read More
OLDIE PODCAzT: Augustine on Prayer; how to treat newcomers to Traditional Latin Masses
I am digging out of the archive an old PODCAzT. These days in the Liturgy of the Hours we have had readings from St. Augustine’s Letter 130 to the wealthy widow Proba, who had fled to North Africa after Alaric … Read More
Archbp. Burke, TLM, Vatican Basilica
Our friend John Sonnen has some first images of His Excellency Most. Rev. Raymond Burke’s Solemn Mass in the Vatican Basilica. UPDATE Another view from Messa in Latino: I found some of the accounts interesting. I was especially amused by … Read More
Bp. Nickless (D. Sioux City): OUTSTANDING Pastoral Letter
It is a big day for the priests and people in the Diocese of Sioux City. His Excellency Most Reverend R. Walker Nickless, Bishop of Sioux City, four years as bishop, during this year for Priests, has issued a pastoral … Read More
Holy See/SSPX talks begin on 26 October
From the site of the Holy See Press Office, the papal spokesman Fr. Federico Lombardi, SJ has announced that the talks between the Holy See and the SSPX will begin on 26 October. They will take place at the Palazzo … Read More
I heard tell that during the upcoming conference for the anniversary of Summorum Pontificum in Rome his Excellency Most Rev. Raymond Burke, Prefect of the Segnatura, will be celebrant for a Pontifical Mass in the older, traditional Roman Rite in… … Read More
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Brick by brick in Wroclaw
Be sure to check out this Polish site Nowy Ruch Liturgiciczny for photos of a Solemn TLM coram episcopo, Most. Rev. Marian Golebiewski, Archbishop of Wroclaw. The photos are GREAT. Folks… this is what the RED MASS should always look … Read More





















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