“The Liturgical Hall of Shame”
Fr. Godfrey Diekmann, OSB, was a major proponent of the “hootenanny Mass” following the Second Vatican Council.
A Very Cool Thing! (3 of 3)
A section of the Gospel of John dating sometime around 120 A.D. (!!!)
Everybody hates a hypocrite! (2 of 3)
A particular Greek manuscript may or may not be more ancient than, for instance, St. Jerome’s Latin Vulgate.
Give us our words back! (1 of 3)
I have a hard time believing that nuns told young Catholics, “Whatever you do, don’t read the Bible!” Seriously?
Help! What does Fr. Deryck Hanshell mean?
USCCB Secretariat of Divine Worship: “The GIRM never speaks to every possible scenario that could take place.”
Bishop Christensen Attempts To Ban “Ad Orientem”
“There is nothing in the Council text about turning altars toward the people.” — Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
Pope Pius X: The Pope Who Carried His Shoes
Named Bishop of Mantua, Sarto began in 1884 to teach dogma courses in the Seminary, giving each student a personal copy of the “Summa Theologiae.”
Singing Propers and Ordinary . . . at Low Mass?
“And the practice of saying a Low Mass while the choir sings bits of things is too dreadful to be described.” — Fr. Adrian Fortescue, 1912
Anticipation of Richard . . .
One of our contributors, Richard Clark, plans to write about the 1998 ICEL translation . . .
Essay on Gregorian Accompaniment
I published this article in 2007. I am reproducing it here in case anyone finds it useful.
Monsignor Richard J. Schuler Has Been Vindicated
My dad used to say, “When all you’ve got is a hammer, everything starts looking like a nail.”
More thoughts about Communion in the hand.
“At the same time, however, this reform cannot and does not repudiate the past. It tries to guard carefully.” — Cardinal Knox, writing on behalf of Pope Paul VI in 1974
Communion in the hand?
Catholics in America are free to receive the Holy Eucharist in their hands, but the way Cardinal Bernardin forced this issue is disturbing.
1949 Mass at the ruins of the Nagasaki Cathedral
Extraordinary photographs of a 1949 Pontifical Mass for the 400th anniversary of the arrival of St. Francis Xavier in Japan.
First Look Images! • Campion Second Edition
“The scribes seldom knew Greek, so these renderings of Greek texts in Latin characters teem with mistakes of every kind.” — Dr. Peter Wagner
Medieval Latin Catholics Sometimes Sang In Greek?
“The scribes seldom knew Greek, and so these renderings of Greek texts in Latin characters teem with mistakes of every kind.” — Dr. Peter Wagner (1903)
The Little Rock Nine
How would you like to have the United States army escort you to school each day?
Pope Pius XII speaks about the Liturgy (1956)
“Where it can be done away with without too much difficulty on the part of the faithful, it should be abrogated.” — Pope Pius XI on “orchestral Masses” (private letter)
How Does One Use The Ordo Cantus Missæ?
The second half of an article about the most important book you’ve never seen.
Ordo Cantus Missae — English Translations
Who should start the “Glory to God” at Mass? Who should intone the Gloria? Ordinary Form.