Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment

A year since the end of the most significant pontificate since that of S Pius X. God bless the Pope Emeritus for what he did to build up the...

Quite often, different people turn out to have been thinking about the same things, and in similar ways. An example of this in the liturgica...

In the relationship between the Holy See and the SSPX, there is one enormous fundamental problem, which is so obvious that few people mentio...

Unitatis Redintegratio  of Vatican II wisely concentrated on what was positive; what the Catholic Church and other bodies could confidently ...

A thought is growing upon me. I throw it out simply as a balon d'essai  for you to shoot down. It is: that Ecumenism is in practice ofte...

One occasionally hears it said among clergy that, while it is understandable that the elderly should have an affection for the tradition in ...

 ... that I have been away for a few days visiting dear friends in the Orkneys; which I will say more about soon. My apologies to those who ...

In Holy Week this year, I will find it interesting to see what happens on ... (1)   Maundy Thursday . What will our Holy Father do? Will...

A valued and learned friend has copied to me a paper in the January 2011 number of Worship , by a North American canonist called Chad Glendi...

Continues Sometimes a parallel is suggested between S Pius V, revising the Roman Rite after and by mandate of the Council of Trent, and Pau...

Continues. In 1999 Cardinal Ratzinger wrote: "Rites ... are forms of the Apostolic Tradition and of its unfolding in the great places ...

I wonder if any readers know how the process is advancing for the Canonisation of Blessed Clement. And, indeed, how widespread his cultus  i...