Tag Archives: Fr. Mark Francis

On the St. Peter’s Mass Suppression Stunt viewed from the Left

People are still talking about the decision to suppress priests’ individual Masses in St. Peter’s Basilica to force everyone into uniformity. I wrote HERE and HERE.  Card. Burke HERE At Fishwrap, Christopher White – big surprise here – mischaracterized my … Read More

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For the “Sissy” File: CTU reacts to Trump’s victory

For your “Sissy” File…. The Catholic Theological Union in Chicago has been a theological byword for … awful… for decades. An alumnus of the CTU sent this: Talk about Self-Absorbed Promethean Neopelagians! If you think that his name is familiar, Mark … Read More

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Fishwrap’s nutty over the Holy See’s ending of “tropes” during the Agnus Dei

I am sure you have heard this at one point or another… perhaps even too often.  Hitherto in many places, during the last stage of preparation before the distribution of Holy Communion, if the work at the altar was going … Read More

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The Tablet: against Summorum Pontificum

What follows is ugly. The author, Fr. Mark Francis, is superior general of the Clerics of St. Viator (Viatorians).  He is one of the darlings of the Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions in the USA, producing such gems as Models … Read More

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