Monthly Archives: March 2008

I have been meaning to post about the confusion that has reigned for years in some places about hearing confessions on Good Friday. Hopefully what follows might be of use if you hear that priests are refusing to hear confessions … Read More →

ALL: take this with a grain of salt.  I am hearing from sources that most of this article from the Washington Times is rubbish. For one thing, there is nothing about this in the Italian press so far.  This is … Read More →

Sandro Magister has an interesting piece today.  He presents defenses of the Holy Father’s changes to the Good Friday prayer for Jews in the 1962 Missale Romanum by the Jesuit publication Civiltà Cattolica, Prof. Jacob Neusner and by Archbp. Gianfranco … Read More →

PRESS RELEASE FROM THE LATIN MASS SOCIETY Residential Training Conference for Priests Wishing to Learn the Traditional Latin Rite at Merton College, Oxford, Monday 28 July to Friday 1 August 2008 The Latin Mass Society’s August 2007 training conference for … Read More →

Here is a list of places some of you readers are (roughly) when coming to WDTPRS recently.   The locations are sometimes only regional approximations, perhaps though some internet node in your area, rather than your precise locality. You readers are … Read More →

In another entry someone asked about my statement that the Congregation for Divine Worship stated that confessions can be heard during Mass and, indeed, it is a good idea in some cases. Here is the documentation translated from Latin found … Read More →

Here is a good piece from The Catholic Spirit, from Austin, TX. My emphases and comments. Austin Latin Mass community finds home at CathedralCatholic Spirit, March 2008, In Our World By Michele Chan SantosCorrespondent The traditional Latin Mass celebrated on … Read More →

There is an interesting article in the traditional bi-monthly The Remnant by Michael Matt about the change of the Good Friday prayers for Jews in the 1962 Missale Romanum.   The thrust of the piece is that we need to defend … Read More →

Some time ago I wrote that Pope Benedict had chosen one of WDTPRS’s favorite Cardinals, His Eminence Joseph Card. Zen Ze-Kiun to write the Good Friday meditations for the Popes Station of the Cross held yearly at the Colosseum.  Clearly … Read More →