I find myself, here, and not for the first time, defending the words of the Second Vatican Council against an interpretation which would impute to them theological novelties incompatible with the perennial teaching of the Church.
Category: Traditionis Custodes
What is the Vatican’s Target?
There is a reason why they are targeting the diocesan TLM and not the FSSP or the other "former Ecclesia Dei" communities.
The Schismatic Trads Were Right? Francis’ New Rescript on the TLM
We have now heard from the Holy See in unambiguous terms that the integration into parish life of Catholics attached to the older Missal is a thoroughly bad thing. The ones with a schismatic mentality, whatever that was supposed to …
Vocational Realism and Generosity
Many young Catholic men will be able to relate to their concerns about vocational discernment and the Latin Mass.
International TLM Lay Group Appeals to All Catholics of Good Will
What we do know is that we are justly afflicted for our sins, in all the suffering which God permits to fall upon us, and that God is above all factionalism and ideology.
Growing Up with the Underground Latin Mass
It was through priests and laity (like my grandparents) around the world who tirelessly spent their lives to preserve the Latin Mass.
What if They Restrict the TLM Even More?
Above: Mass for the St Catherine Trust Summer School in the Shrine of St Augustine of Canterbury, Ramsgate, England. Photo credit: Joseph Shaw. Credible reports have now surfaced of a new document coming from Rome against the Roman rite. "It …
The One Thread By Which the Council Hangs: a Response to Cavadini, Healy, and Weinandy
Above: photos of (left) Requiem Mass for Pope Benedict XVI at the Monastère Saint-Benoît, provided by the monastery, and (right) Mass in Mexico, by marianaarias of CathoPic. “Don’t touch that! If you do, everything will collapse!” The warning is …
Two “Disobediences” Compared
Take the well-informed young priests of today. They know, thanks to studying Benedict XVI and other authors, that the Novus Ordo has serious flaws and lacunae, to which the TLM can supply remedies. There was, after all, this “mutual enrichment” …
Revealed: Benedict’s Reaction to Francis Against the TLM
Our friends at Rorate have published the English translation of key portions of the new book from the secretary of the late Pope Emeritus, Archbishop Georg Gänswein. The book is entitled “Nient’ altro che la verità: La mia vita al …