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Category Archives: The Drill
Msgr. Bux’s Open Letter v. Card Cupich
Edward Pentin has – HERE – the text of an Open Letter correcting Card. Cupich who not long ago wrote a bizarre piece for Vatican News using Dilexi te as a springboard to trash the Church’s liturgy which has been … Read More
Reid on the liturgical challenges facing Leo XIV
Dom Alcuin Reid has a thoughtful piece at the UK’s Catholic Herald which ever so cordially employs paywalls. Here’s the last part of Reid’s offering with some emphases and comments. He starts out stating that Leo XIV seems liturgically level-headed and dignified. … Read More
Jesuit-run Amerika Magazine on Leo XIV and what to do about people who desire traditional sacred worship (TLM)
Jesuit-run Amerika Magazine bravely comments about Leo XIV and the TLM … behind a paywall. (There are ways….) Mind you… anything or anyone jesuitical commenting on liturgy should right away be held as suspect. There are exceptions. Is this one? … Read More
TLM extended by Rome in the Diocese of Cleveland for 2 years. Question: If for Cleveland, why not elsewhere?
UPDATE 23 October 2025 What they are not telling you is that the bishop asked for a 5-year extension and only got 2, was asked to say a New Mass in Latin, and told to lead acceptance of Vatican II. … Read More
DANG! ACTION ITEM! Fr. McTeigue swings the axe! Make this go viral.
Make this go viral. Use my social links. Do it. Let’s use our collective power. We still have it, don’t doubt. Transcript: Maybe this has happened to you. I know people that this has actually happened to. You may know … Read More
Cupich on “Dilexi te” and and what it means for LITURGY!
Card. Cupich’s essay on Dilexi te! In the NEWS section of Vatican.va. Cupich’s op-ed reflection on Dilexi te offers yet another example of what happens when ideology substitutes for theology and historical revisionism obscures fidelity to the Second Vatican Council. … Read More
“The Unspoken Trial of the Orphaning of Our Priests”
There is a good/bad article at Crisis about the situation priests are in the USA. It is almost 6000 words… hard words. Here is a summary. In short, the piece opens with Crisis Magazine editor Eric Sammons’ call for calm … Read More
ASK FATHER: You haven’t commented on Pope Leo’s new document?
From “readers” distilled. QUAERITUR: You haven’t commented on Pope Leo’s new document? How come? The problem is that, by the spiritual abuse and constant drubbing we have had, over the last years, with the looming threat of some other looney … Read More
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