Cardinal Joachim Meisner of Germany, one of the four stalwart cardinals who authored and signed their name to the dubia, has passed on to his eternal reward. He did not live to see the dubia answered. He did not, in fact, even live to see …
Book Review: Walking the Road to God by Fr. Lawrence Carney
Walking the Road to God: Why I Left Everything Behind and Took to the Streets to Save Souls Fr. Lawrence Carney Caritas Press, 2016 210 pages $5.99 Kindle; $14.95 Paperback Walking the Road to God is a moving account of the mission …
Fidelity to Liturgical Law and the Rights of the Faithful
I was recently asked by a number of people: “When ought one to point out liturgical abuses and endeavor to correct them?” My interlocutors had been confused by a number of partial truths. Let us, then, exclude several erroneous answers. …
A Busy Week in Review: Vatican Edition
This past week has been incredibly busy for Church news. There is a definitive sense that the Francis agenda has shifted, once again, into a higher gear. We didn’t have the time to cover all the stories of relevance over …
Beleaguered Cardinal Müller to Exit CDF July 2nd
Rumors of Cardinal Gerhard Müller’s impending departure as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith are nothing new. But last week, a new story hit the radar, largely-unnoticed in the English-speaking world. The Argentinian newspaper Clarín ran a report saying that …
A New Cocktail for the Old Rite
A New Cocktail for the Old Rite Next week marks the tenth anniversary of Pope Benedict XVI’s Summorum Pontificum, which on July 7, 2007 granted all priests the right to use the 1962 Roman Missal without the permission of their …
On the Modes of Exercise of the Magisterium – Part II: Evaluating Amoris Laetitia
(Part II of a two-part series. Read Part I here.) In the first part of this essay I attempted to cut through some of the confusion that frequently surrounds discussions of the various modes of exercise of the magisterium, particularly with …
The Calling of a Cardinal: “Intrepid, Even to the Shedding of His Blood”
Image: screenshot of live stream, Ordinary Public Consistory, June 28, 2017. Earlier this week, we received, from a member of the clergy in Rome, the text of a homily from Cardinal Raymond Burke on the occasion of the feast of …
“Acceptable Worship, with Fear and Reverence”— An Appreciation of Peter Kwasniewski’s New Book
Editor’s Note: Bishop Athanasius Schneider, who received an advance copy of Noble Beauty, Transcendent Holiness: Why the Modern Age Needs the Mass of Ages — Dr. Peter Kwasniewski’s new book on sacred liturgy — has written the following reflection on it and given …
The Destruction of Cardinal Pell
Two years ago, when this story came out, I asked some friends and fellow journalists, “Is this the trigger-pull on Pell?” At the time, of course, his name wasn’t even being mentioned. But as the events unfolded that would later be referred to …
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