Today, at the parish where we assisted at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the priest celebrant offered the Votive Mass for the Sacred Heart, no doubt because today is both an open liturgical day in the traditional rite, and … Continue reading
Today, at the parish where we assisted at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the priest celebrant offered the Votive Mass for the Sacred Heart, no doubt because today is both an open liturgical day in the traditional rite, and … Continue reading
Today, the Associated Press has picked up the story. This is significant. Diane Montagna’s gigantic scoop has entered the mainstream secular media. Below the first three paragraphs of the article is an embedded X posting of mine raising an interesting … Continue reading
Vaticanista Diane Montagna has obtained documents that were referenced as the basis for Pope Francis’ overturning of Pope Benedict XVI’s document freeing up access to the traditoinal Latin Mass, Summorum Pontificum. Pope Francis abrogated that earlier papal text in 2021 … Continue reading
This is a story of local, New Hampshire interest, but it is also relevant to the larger American picture of potentially destructive Chinese investment in America. Lily Tang Williams, the Chinese expat interviewed here, has been to Saint Benedict Center … Continue reading
A good friend referred me to this excellent piece by John Horvat on the Return to Order website: “How Gregorian Chant Benefits the Health of the Body…and Soul.” Horvat’s is a cautionary tale about what happens when tradition is abandoned. … Continue reading
(Roberto de Mattei/Voice of the Family) — “Marriage is not an ideal, but the canon of true love between a man and a woman: a love that is total, faithful and fruitful”. This is what Leo XIV said on 31 … Continue reading
Praying the Divine Office today, I read this in Matins for the Office of Our Lady on Saturday: Through a woman came death; through a woman, life: through Eve, ruin; through Mary, salvation. The former, corrupted, followed the deceiver; the … Continue reading
On the trip to England and Scotland that I mentioned in my latest Ad Rem, I made an interesting discovery connecting a very out-of-the-way spot in Cornwall to a well-known part of American Catholic History. Our big adventure began with … Continue reading
Pope Leo today addressed eastern Catholics gathered in Rome for the Jubilee of the Eastern Churches. His address, published on the Vatican’s website and covered by Vatican News, was to the assembled partriarchs, cardinals, bishops, priests, male and female religious, … Continue reading
You have just over nine days — a mere novena away! — to enter Mike Church’s “Win a Pound of Gold Contest.” The funds raised will benefit the Crusade Radio Network, which, among other things, is the meda venue that … Continue reading
Who is this new Holy Father, this Pope Leo XIV, a native of Chicago and Augustian Frair with a doctorate in Canon Law, who, while an American, is not an American Bishop (not part of the USCCB) as his episcopal … Continue reading
We have not disappeared! Currently, I am the one who posts the vast majority of offerings on Catholicism·org, whether or not I have written the pieces being posted. This is due to the prolonged illness and death of Brian Kelly, … Continue reading
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