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Category Archives: SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
Poll: almost half of UK Mass-goers would attend TLM
The lovely and persistent Anna Arco, one of my favorite writers for the UK’s best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald, has an interesting article which escaped my noticed as I winged my way Gothamward. My emphases and comments. Poll: almost … Read More
NYC- Manhattan – September TLM news
On the Feast of the Assumption this year, the Church of the Holy Innocents in Manhattan began a regular Sunday Mass at 10 AM in the Extraordinary Form (Traditional Latin Mass). I am told it is now the only parish … Read More
Italian liturgist Manlio Sodi fears Summorum Pontificum
Manilio Sodi, SDB, is virulently opposed to Pope Benedict. The Italian blog Messa in latino reports that Sodi has been on Italian radio a couple times recently running down Pope Benedict’s Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum.The good news is that its … Read More
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Archbp. Burke on altar girls and EMCHs in the Extraordinary Form
I picked up from Il blog degli amici di Papa Ratzinger that H.E. Most Rev. Raymond Burke (Prefect of the Ap. Segnatura) wrote a preface to a canonical study in German of Summorum Pontificum by Fr. Gero P. Weishaupt. In … Read More
Archbp. Ranjith in Sri Lanka! Huzzah!
Our worthy friends at Rorate have posted a piece by His Excellency Most Rev. Malcolm Ranjith, once Secretary of the CDW and now Archbishop of Colombo in Sri Lanka. Archbp. Ranjith demonstrates why he was the right man for the … Read More
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SALE alert! Benedict XVI’s vol 1 of Jesus of Nazareth
When I was writing a response to an email query, I looked up a link for Pope Benedict XVI’s book Jesus of Nazareth (Vol. 1). I found that – at the time of this writing – it is on sale … Read More
Card. Canizares Llovera: liturgical education, reintroduction to Christianity
From NLM we get the translation of an interview in German with the Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, His Eminence Antonio Card. Canizares LLovera for the 3rd anniversary of the emancipation proclamation Summorum Pontificum. You can read the … Read More
QUAERITUR: pamphlets about TLM for parishes
From a reader: I am trying to raise awareness of the TLM and Summorum Pontificum in my diocese. I am considering developing a pamphlet to pass out at different parishes in order to do this. However, before I reinvent the … Read More
Brick by brick in Rhode Island
From Rhode Island Catholic there is an article about the use of the Traditional Latin Mass, a fruit of Summorum Pontificum. My emphases and comments. Ways we worship: Celebrating the Latin MassPart one of a three-part series on special liturgical … Read More
What has Summorum Pontificum done? Damian Thompson opines.
At three years of Summorum Pontificum the big question is: has it made any difference? Damian Thompson on Holy Smoke makes some mordant comments, much to our surprise, about the third anniversary of Summorum Pontificum, together with giving some good … Read More
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