Reading through the comments on yesterday’s post about Cardinal Sarah and the changes to the Holy Thursday foot-washing ceremony, Father RP’s observations stood out. So much so that I want to highlight them here (with my emphasis): I must confess to having never liked this ritual included in the Holy Mass, though I have never been…
My maternal grandmother had the merriest brown eyes of anyone I’ve ever known, but they’d take on a special light when she recalled one of the poems she’d learned as a young girl. Her favorite, Daffodils, she could recite to her dying day, with such obvious pleasure that her listeners believed she beheld in her…
Today, it was announced that Pope Francis will wash the feet of 12 refugees (no mention how many will be Catholic) this Holy Thursday. The Holy Father is no stranger to innovations in the rite, and today’s announcement follows on the heels of official changes made by the pope in January, altering the rubrics of the Holy Thursday liturgical…
…or our priests? Or our theologians? Why is fighting this fight left to bloggers and laymen, even now, after three years of escalating error and confusion? It’s a bit of a rant, but I expect you’ll understand. Listen here.
The errors that are being spread from Rome — by the pope and his cabal — are multiplying, and becoming more egregious. Why is it left to laymen and bloggers to stand for Christ’s truth? Where are those with the competence and the authority to speak? Where are our clergy? Where are our theologians? Where…
Part 1 | Part 2 The best way to walk through the door of the Confessional is to regularly pray and ask the Lord to lead you there whenever you need it. Remember this, ponder this, and let this sink in all the way: If the soul is in a state of Mortal Sin it…
The German Church is in a dire state. Threatened by burgeoning apostasy and heresy within its own ranks, orthodox Catholics around the world look with a wary eye to the nation that gave us Martin Luther and the Protestant “Reformation”. The original title of Fr. Ralph Wiltgen’s essential account of the ecclesiastical revolution that took place at the…
The Vatican grapevine informs us that the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation on Marriage is expected to be released this Saturday, March 19th. Yes, that’s the Feast of St. Joseph, because irony. Unsurprisingly, there are serious reasons for concern: Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia reportedly disclosed the news today at a conference with priests in Portugal, according to Il Sismografo, a semi-official Vatican news aggregator…
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Here in the United States, we’re in the heat of political campaign season, with the US Presidency up for grabs in just less than eight months. And just like every other campaign in recent memory, Catholics have pulled out the long knives, impugning each other’s character and intelligence based on which candidate they favor. Political…
I have to be honest: things aren’t looking good for us in the finance department. Fundraising was low in January, and I hoped it was a quirk. It was worse in February, but I kept praying. Now it’s March, and things are not looking up. In the first three months of 2016 combined, we’ve raised…
