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Making Sense of Our Liturgical Morass
December 2019We need a clearer understanding of the Church’s relationship with her past and her tradition that will help guide us along the uncharted road ahead.
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O Death, Where Is Thy…Tickle?
December 2019Everything in the old Requiem Mass forced us to consider death and God’s judgment, Christ’s mercy and our complacency.
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A First Step in the Recovery of a Catholic Vision of Reality
April 2018The old Mass cannot be revived successfully in isolation or simply as a juridical mandate or even a catechetical tool.
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The Latin Mass After a Year's Attendance
December 2016The extraordinary form has a depth of imagery that the post-Vatican II revisers of the Mass simply eschewed, especially as regards the eucharistic sacrifice.
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Liturgy that Speaks to the Soul
June 2015A review of Resurgent in the Midst of Crisis: Sacred Liturgy, the Traditional Latin Mass, and Renewal in the Church
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An All-New 'New Liturgical Movement'?
July-August 2011The Pope's vision of a "hybrid" Roman rite may be an altogether new Mass, a third form that blends the best of both the old Latin and new forms.
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Out of the Liturgical Ghetto
July-August 2011While we wait for a revival of the Traditional Latin Mass, it's interesting to examine survey results from Europe which reveal pent up demand for the old rite.
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Universae Ecclesiae: A Blow Against Liturgical Absolutism
July-August 2011A new Vatican document makes it clear that the old Latin and new vernacular Masses are both valid, a distinct refusal of liturgical absolutism.
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From Guiding Lines to Institutional Reality
May 2011In the case of both the Latin Mass and the ordinariates, Pope Benedict's response was to revolutionize a policy put in place by his predecessor.
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Liturgical Reform Did Not Start with Vatican II
March 2011A review of The Development of the Liturgical Reform: As Seen by Cardinal Ferdinando Antonelli from 1948 to 1970
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An Interview With a Carmelite
July-August 2008A Carmelite monastery in Wyoming is an exciting new element in the Church in America, and has proven to be fecund ground for vocations to the consecrated life.
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For Fear of the Jews
April 2008Nobody would ever mistake the timid troupe that makes up the majority of Catholic bishops for radical imams who issue fatwas.
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Haste & Heroism
April 2008In his revision of the Good Friday prayer for the Jews, Pope Benedict didn't compromise the call to "preach the gospel to every creature."
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First Impressions Are Often Correct
March 2008What was it like for a self-proclaimed "progressive" priest to celebrate his first-ever old Latin Mass? Was it onerous? Was it tedious?
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Reinforcements Are on the Way
March 2008The Vatican has decided to draft a new "instruction," necessitated by "confused reactions" to the Pope's universal indult.
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'Rebellion Against the Pope'
February 2008A number of English bishops, including the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, is displeased with Summorum Pontificum.
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The Future Has Arrived
February 2008The Tridentine Latin Mass is "catching on among young Catholics.... it is a hit with younger priests and their parishioners."
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Msgr. Mannion Is Infatuated With the Modern World
January 2008Even after Pope Benedict XVI's explicit universal indult for the Traditional Latin Mass, Our Sunday Visitor is still dismissive of the old rite.
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Pope Benedict XVI Is Ambivalent About the Second Vatican Council
January 2008The Pope says that he was "too timid" in the period immediately after Vatican II in challenging avant-garde theological positions.
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Do Not Make Me a Gentile
December 2007The following blessing is recited every day by Jews: "Blessed are You, L-rd our G-d, King of the Universe, who did not make me a Gentile."
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'Let Us All Practice Charity'
November 2007Fr. Thomas Reese, S.J., of Georgetown University says, "Where there are groups that want [the Tridentine Mass], it's going to be a real pain in the neck."
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Ordinary & Extraordinary
November 2007The Tridentine Latin Mass is extraordinary, from another source, from the outside world -- it takes one Heavenward.
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The 'Signs of the Times' Have Passed Them By
November 2007Traditional Catholics know which way the wind is blowing. How brutal for the Vatican II-niks! The "signs of the times" have passed them by.
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Does He Know the Mind of Satan?
October 2007George Kendall says some Traditionalists become so obsessed with restoring the old Mass that it becomes a kind of idol.
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Divisive or Diversity?
October 2007Fr. Richard McBrien has always claimed to be in favor of "diversity," but when it comes to the subject of the Old Mass, not so.
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'The Reform of the Reform' Is Going Nowhere -- At Least Not Yet
September 2007Does the Pope's universal idult for the Traditional Latin Mass necessarily mean that Fr. Fessio's "reform of the reform" is dead?
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The New Mass Just Can't Be Fixed
July-August 2007Wishy-washy Our Sunday Visitor is not known for taking strong stands; so, why is it so opposed to the Traditional Mass?
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Our Churches Will Be Empty -- Part II
December 2006"It is our duty to be vigilant... Because, in the end, the people will assist at the Tridentine Mass and our churches will empty."
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Our Churches Will Be Empty
November 2006A Vatican official makes a prediction: "In the end, the people will assist at the Tridentine Mass and our churches will empty."
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Can the Pope Overrule A Vatican II Document?
May 2004When it comes to liturgy, Gabe Huck would get the Most Despised Man in America Award.
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A Tale of Two Classics
December 2001During the 20th century two of the world’s largest multinationals dominated their competition with “classics” recognized even in the remote recesses of the earth.
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The Liturgy as Catechism
May 2000Our major training in the Faith still comes principally from what we see and hear at church on Sunday.
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Conversational Latin for Today. Really!
April 2000Latin is an entirely suitable means for discussing all contemporary subjects, for bantering, arguing, playing games, and singing.
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The King James Bible & the Latin Mass
April 2000We have dozens of versions of the Bible and numerous canons of the Mass, and people know and love them less than when there was only one version.
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