LifeSiteNews, David McLoone: A Costa Rican bishop suspended a priest in his diocese and sent the cleric to a psychological treatment clinic for celebrating the Mass according to the Missal of Paul VI while using Latin and facing ad orientem. … Continue reading
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Archbishop Sample Praises Traditional Mass, Notes Enthusiasm of Young Worshipers
Catholic Herald: Young people are drawn to the Traditional Latin Mass by its “beauty”, “sense of mystery” and “transcendence”, Archbishop Alexander K Sample has said. Report is here.
Pope Francis, Summorum Pontificum, the SSPX: Is There Something Amiss?
LifeSite News, John Henry Westen: Andrea Grillo a lay professor at the Pontifical Athenaeum of St Anselmo in Rome, billed by La Croix as “close to the Pope,” is intimately familiar Summorum Pontificum. Grillo in fact published a book against Summorum Pontificum before the … Continue reading
Latin Mass Drawing Large Young Crowd in Dublin
Regina Magazine: Father Gerard Deighan is the pastor of St. Kevin’s Parish in trendy Portobello, Dublin, where the Latin Mass Chaplaincy for the Dublin Archdiocese has been established since 2007. In this exclusive Regina Magazine interview, he conducts us through his beautiful church … Continue reading
Latin Mass Pilgrimage to Rome Draws Thousands
CNA: The road leading to St. Peter’s Square was packed on Saturday morning: but not with the usual tourists or merchants. Instead, a long line of pilgrims processed along the street carrying candles and singing hymns. They were participants in an … Continue reading
Two Traditional Latin Masses Are Being Offered Daily in Afghanistan
Rorate Caeli: Last year, we brought you the compelling story of Fr. David Smith, a priest chaplain of the Royal Army, who is also one of the 26 priests of the Rorate Caeli Purgatorial Society. We reported at the time that he … Continue reading
Cardinal Burke Criticizes Resistance to Summorum Pontificum
Catholic Culture: Five years after Pope Benedict issued Summorum Pontificum, his motu proprio permitting priests to offer the extraordinary form of the Mass without first having to obtain permission from their bishops, Cardinal Raymond Burke lamented “resistance to what the … Continue reading
Latin Mass Community in Hong Kong Celebrates 10th Anniversary with Cardinal Tong
side from celebrating the joys of Easter this Sunday past, the usus antiquior community in Hong Kong were also celebrating their 10th year as a community, marked by a Solemn Pontifical Mass at St. Teresa’s church, and celebrated by their … Continue reading
Priest Beaten by Mad Liberal for Offering Traditional Latin Mass
Rorate Caeli: “You have been tough, but we will smash your head. Signed, Your friend Satan”. That was one of several threatening messages sent to Father Hernán García Pardo, parish priest of San Michele, in Ronta [Mugello region of the … Continue reading
Diocese of Madison WI Encouraging Latin Mass With New Priests from New Order
Encouraging news on liturgical reform out of Madison. And, yes, there’s resistance, from lay folk, one of whom protested, “To me, it seems like a step backward,” the priests’ approach is “quite different than we have become accustomed to.” Catholic … Continue reading
Interview With Father Calvin Goodwin on the Traditional Latin Mass
This is a Zenit reprint from their Column God’s Men by Traci Osuna. Here is a clip: “We’ve probably trained several hundred priests, at least, in the last three years since “Summorum Pontificum,” just in our North American district. A … Continue reading
NY Times Op-Ed Plugs Latin Mass
Who would’ve thought that you’d ever see an article in the NY Times giving a critical review of the New Mass and its principal architect? Well, in yesterday’s paper there it was. Here’s the lede of Kenneth Wolfe’s editorial opinion … Continue reading