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 is scheduled for release sometime in April or May…" — Trad priest to @RobertMoynihan on…
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 clear enough. Any sensible person would rapidly desist, lest their one seemingly minor act bring…
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” idea, although it tends to flow in one direction. So, they set about fixing what…
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 fianco di Benedetto XVI” (Nothing but the truth: My life beside Pope Benedict XVI) (Piemme,…
Trad Perspective on Benedict XVI
“I’m sorry about Benedict.” I turned from my dog to my daughter. “Did he die?” I asked my daughter. “Yeah,” she said. “Who died?” said my six-year-old son. “Pope Benedict, the former pope.” I was taking it in. It wasn’t hitting me yet. I said to my son: “Now he goes to judgment. We pray…
Games People Play with the Holy Spirit
Dear Dr. Kwasniewski, Watching Mass of the Ages Episode 2 and your interview with Raymond Arroyo brought up some questions I’ve been struggling with. First, doesn’t it seem like the Novus Ordo was close to what the Council Fathers intended? I say this because (a) we know that Bugnini was secretary of the committee that…
Pro-TLM Strategies in the Era of “Traditionis Custodes”
People often ask me: “What’s your advice for Catholics living in a diocese where the TLM has been limited or eliminated, or where there is a threat that this might happen? What should we do?” As we round the corner of one year past the infamous Responsa ad Dubia of then-archbishop Roche of the then-Congregation…
Church Life Journal Insults Eastern Liturgies with Amateur Scholarship
Above: a Coptic iconostasis in the diaspora showing the liturgical curtains which veil the altar from the laity. Note: the following open letter was written by a regular reader of Notre Dame’s Church Life Journal, in response to an article, published there on November 1st, that was guilty of egregious errors and insulting characterizations. The…
In the Church Basement, Hiding from Mass
Above: an official promotional graphic of the Vatican’s Synod on Synodality (posted at their Facebook page here). On Sundays and other holy days of obligation the faithful are bound to participate in the Mass. -CIC, can. 1247. It is Saturday evening, and I am trying to endure another “Sunday” Mass in my hometown. A snowstorm,…
Cardinal Burke Post-Traditionis Custodes
Above: Cardinal Burke celebrates the Latin Mass in Tampa, Florida, for the feast of Christ the King. One fateful day, I heard through whispered breath a claim that Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke would be visiting Tampa. Through some digging, I found out he’d be visiting the Epiphany of Our Lord parish. Before making the long,…