Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment

Sometimes facts are just too big to see. I think the position of "Ecumenical Councils" in the Church is a fine example. We had Va...

So: is Bishop de Galaretta to lead the SSPX 'team' in negotiations with the Holy See? Not unnaturally, the blogosphere is alive with...

As we enter the last three months of the current ORDO, I repeat, for those who may have missed it, a list of Errata I posted some time ago. ...

I expect readers will have read, via NLM or Fr Zed, about the report required by and submitted to the Sovereign Pontiff last spring by the C...

I see Fr Zed has repeated his former error to the effect that those nearby should be able to hear the secreto parts of an EF Mass. Not so.

I was impressed by VN's piece on the Extraordinary Form. Despite Tablet trouble-making, what he said was a careful, accurate and sensibl...

Can someone with an historical turn of mind explain to me why popish priests, on the rare occasions when they don a cassock, do not have the...

In Summorum pontificum , our Holy Father makes clear in the first Article that any priest may, without any permissions, say a Private Mass w...

Yes, my post on the "Eucharistic Prayer of Hippolytus" was somewhat gung-ho, and I have some sympathy with the reader who said tha...

Yesterday morning I tried to find, in my 1950 Missale Romanum, the lovely old Sarum Votive In Gratiarum Actione pro Reditu Cinerum. But in...

The Anglican Clergy (or, more specifically, the Anglican Catholic Clergy?), as everybody knows ... well, to be specific, as the Anglican Cle...

We ORDO makers tend to notice things that you common folk might not spot. Today, for example, there's something odd about the second rea...