Monthly Archives: June 2008

You might remember an entry we had on the implementation of Summorum Pontificum desired by His Excellency Most Rev. Robert Brom.  His Excellency sent a letter in May in which he announced his will to impose a competency test on … Read More →

And now from the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation, we have this about our lost sheep… er um… shepherd… um… whatever, H.E. Emmanuel Milingo: Milingo launches the 3rd Vatican Ex-communicated Catholic Archbishop, Emmanuel Milingo says the Movement for Married Priests is … Read More →

At Damian Thompson’s blog Holy Smoke, there is a report of a counter-attack on Pope Benedict’s Marshall Plan for the Church. In so many places people are dropping the baggage imposed on the Church for decades by those who are … Read More →

  I received a nice note from a reader, PK, who reports about a baptism, with the older, traditional rite of baptism according to the Rituale Romanum. Fr. Z., I read with great joy the account of the baptism in Rome … Read More →

A reader sent this: The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist will have its first extraordinary form of Mass publicly celebrated by the Rev. Gregory B. Wilson on June 24.  Please see the following quote from our recent bulletin: On … Read More →

Someone wrote this on my Facebook wall: Prayers please for Don Konrad zu Loewenstein, priest in charge of the FSSP church of San Simeon Piccolo in Venice – he collapsed and was assisted out of the church by ambulancemen just … Read More →

I sadly read a piece posted by our friends at Rorate that the head of the SSPX, Bishop Bernard Fellay, excommunicated in 1998 for accepting episcopal consecration without pontifical mandate, has dissed His Holiness Benedict XVI during a sermon last … Read More →

Over at Weblog Tools Collection there is very useful post: Did you know that bloggers use gang signs? Apparently… Bloggers are Dangerous. Check out this helpful chart at Innovation Creators so that you too can recognize when you might be … Read More →

A reader alerted me that on ZENIT, Fr. Edward McNamara responded to a question about confessions during Mass. We dealt with that here some time ago. At any rate, here is what Fr. McNamara said:   Hearing Confessions During Mass … Read More →

I have stayed out of this fray, pretty much at least… though I commented on the very very troubling nature of the preposterous and dangerous "Black Liberation Theology". This is worthy of note. Here is the text of a statement … Read More →