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Tag Archives: SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
Summorum Pontificum in Scotland
Damian Thompson, whom I was able to see in NYC but not in London for some reason, posted this enlightening entry: Why is Summorum Pontificum a dead letter in Scotland? I’ve been contacted by a student at St Andrews University … Read More
QUAERITUR: Can bishops forbid pastors to add a TLM to the schedule
I have of late received more than one email from readers with similar questions. In effect, they have asked if diocesan bishops can forbid pastors to add a Traditional Latin Mass to the Sunday Mass schedule, or if the local … Read More
Poll: almost half of UK Mass-goers would attend TLM
The lovely and persistent Anna Arco, one of my favorite writers for the UK’s best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald, has an interesting article which escaped my noticed as I winged my way Gothamward. My emphases and comments. Poll: almost … Read More
Italian liturgist Manlio Sodi fears Summorum Pontificum
Manilio Sodi, SDB, is virulently opposed to Pope Benedict. The Italian blog Messa in latino reports that Sodi has been on Italian radio a couple times recently running down Pope Benedict’s Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum.The good news is that its … Read More
Posted in SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, Throwing a Nutty
Tagged Manlio Sodi, special pleading, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
38 Comments
38 Comments
What has Summorum Pontificum done? Damian Thompson opines.
At three years of Summorum Pontificum the big question is: has it made any difference? Damian Thompson on Holy Smoke makes some mordant comments, much to our surprise, about the third anniversary of Summorum Pontificum, together with giving some good … Read More
Posted in Brick by Brick, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
Tagged Damian Thompson, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
24 Comments
24 Comments
A priest explains: “Why the Old Form thrives in my parish”
On the site of the Catholic Herald, the UK’s best Catholic weekly, (it has a great new look) there is an article you will want to see, with my emphases and comments. Why the Old Form thrives in my parish … Read More
NCReg: Normalizing the Extraordinary Form
From the NCR that’s actually Catholic, the National Catholic Register, comes this on the increasingly wide-spread use of the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite. My emphases and comments. Normalizing the Extraordinary FormPriests Are Free to Celebrate the Traditional Latin … Read More
Instruction on Summorum Pontificum “imminent”?
For a long time people have wondered about the "Instruction" that was to come from the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei (now under the CDF) on the Holy Father’s "emancipation proclamation" Summorum Pontificum. For some time I wondered whether it would … Read More
Musing on Summorum Pontificum
I noticed in John Zmirak’s article on "trads" that he picked up on a phrase I have been using for quite a while regarding Benedict XVI’s Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum. I have been calling SP Pope Benedict’s "emancipation proclamation". Zmirak … Read More
Posted in Our Catholic Identity, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
Tagged Jim Crow, segregration, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
17 Comments
17 Comments
QUAERITUR: Readings in English during Extraordinary Form Mass
From a reader: Hey Father Zed. I’ve got a question about using the vernacular in the TLM… Last night my fiancee and I went to a TLM and the priest, who had a wonderful voice, sang the mass very well…. … Read More
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
Tagged English readings, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, TLM
49 Comments
49 Comments
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