The Friday Podcast is available now. You can catch it here. From the show notes: Today Steve talks Summorum Pontificum’s 7 year anniversary. PLUS, The Roman Rumor mill: Cardinal Burke’s alleged “demotion,”; the pope’s alleged irritation over a new book from Ignatius Press on the traditional Catholic understanding of marriage ad family in advance of the … Read more
[powerpress] Today Steve talks Summorum Pontificum’s 7 year anniversary. PLUS, The Roman Rumor mill: Cardinal Burke’s alleged “demotion,”; the pope’s alleged irritation over a new book from Ignatius Press on the traditional Catholic understanding of marriage ad family in advance of the October Synod; Cardinal Kasper’s personal PR tour, in which he uses Pope Francis … Read more
I don’t pay attention to beauty pageants. I suspect that the last time I watched even five seconds of a Miss America contest was when I was about 16, and gazing on beautiful women marching around a glitzy stage in high heels and bikinis seemed like a pretty good idea. So as is my annual tradition, this year I effortlessly … Read more
Last December, news broke that Cardinal Burke had been removed from the Congregation for Bishops. Before the end of the year, I heard from a reliable source that Burke was also expected to be removed from his position with the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. Though the latter change had not yet … Read more
One of the chief arguments for the traditional Christian practice of celebrating the Eucharist ad orientem — the priest and people together facing the same direction, toward the liturgical “east” of the apse — is that the Mass is a sacrifice offered up to God. The German liturgical scholar Msgr. Klaus Gamber († 1989) observes: You stand before … Read more
PUBLISHER’S NOTE: On July 7, 2007, Pope Benedict XVI issued an apostolic letter motu proprio (given on his own initiative to the Church) that addressed a serious concern long-neglected: the status of the ancient form of the Roman liturgy. After nearly four decades of difficulties between Rome and those Catholics who favored the preservation of the vetus ordo, the first … Read more
It’s 3PM on Friday here on the East Coast, which means that if you’re like most of the working world, your brain has already involuntarily checked out. It may already have wandered to a nice glass of whatever you’re having. I won’t bore you with a long post. But I did want to draw your … Read more
Editor’s note: This is the second in a two-part series on the topic of cultivating a more authentic taste in music. The first part is available here. In the last article, we discussed some of the criteria by which we may evaluate the quality of a piece of music. We will now move to a music’s craft, which … Read more
[powerpress] Today Steve does a 1P5 Roundtable discussion with Elliot Bougis and Scott Broadway . We talk conversion stories, the evangelical power of the Eucharist, Our Lady of Guadalupe, and those pesky labels we append in front of the word “Catholic”
It was 4:30AM in New York City and in Washington DC on the morning of September 12, 2001. More than just a new day was dawning, however. It was also the dawning of a new era. Just the day before, on September 11th, the worst terrorist attack in United States history had left 2,977 dead, … Read more
In the Summa Theologica, St. Thomas Aquinas argues with specificity the maxim that many Catholics have often repeated in the contemplation of evil as a choice: even in committing evil, man always seeks a perceived good. From the Summa: Now a certain order is to be found in those things that are apprehended universally. For that which, … Read more