To the average Penn State student, the fourth of September of 2018 was a day like any other. A Tuesday early in the semester, the weather in State College, Pennsylvania was perfect, and the buzz of a promising football season …
Category: Traditionis Custodes
Catholic Converts Surveyed Say: “Give Us the Latin Mass!”
Editor’s Note: Several months ago, Dr. Peter Kwasniewski wrote an article for our readers in review of Benedictus, the acclaimed “Traditional Catholic Companion” resource that had just been announced, and which is now in its second print issue (see here). …
“Men Must Be Changed by Sacred Things, and Not Sacred Things by Men”
The title of this article is taken from the words uttered by Cardinal Egidio da Viterbo in 1512 during the inaugural oration of the Fifth Lateran Council: “Homines per sacra immutari fas est, non sacra per homines.” Against that backdrop, imagine …
The Hermeneutic of 17% and the Faking of Reality
Here is a typical modern situation: A couple – or throuple – hires two television stars to renovate their historic house. The homeowners leave for two weeks while the celebrities argue about what tiles, fixtures, and lamps they plan to …
“We Will Not Deprive our Children”
Editor’s note: the following statement is issued by French lay faithful led by Notre-Dame de Chrétiente, the organization which leads the Chartres Pilgrimage each year. Please repost and translate this statement freely. This post represents the addition of OnePeterFive as …
England and Wales Respond to the Motu Proprio
Each year the Latin Mass Society of England and Wales organises a High Mass at England’s neo-Byzantine mother church, Westminster Cathedral, to coincide with its Annual General Meeting. This year’s High Mass on the Vigil of the Assumption was as …
New Papal Interview Contains Revealing Remarks on Traditionis Custodes
In a lengthy new interview with COPE, a Spanish radio station, Pope Francis fields questions on a wide range of topics,[1] including his Apostolic Letter Traditionis Custodes (July 16, 2021) that effectively abolished Benedict XVI’s Summorum Pontificum (July 7, 2007) …
The Bugnini Construction Company Builds Liturgical Fairy Tales
Editor’s note: see our Erasmus disclaimer. As we approach fifty days after the motu proprio, it is crucial to repeat this fundamental point: the document is founded on a falsehood so glaring and intellectually unsustainable that it inspires admiration for …
Traditionis Custodes: 40 Days Later
Now we can see better where we stand. The traditional Roman Rite has no shortage of enemies in the Roman Catholic Church, especially in the generation of Pope Francis. Regarding the Latin Mass (TLM), Francis’ fellow Jesuit Fr. Thomas Reese …
Defense of the Motu Proprio Collapsing in Contradictions
Pope Francis has offered two reasons for wishing to bring celebrations of the Traditional Mass to an end: attitudes of some of the faithful which have become associated with this form of the Mass, and the idea that the unity …