Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment

A few days this week and next week to revisit that nice section at the end of the Missal, Votives (and the equally nice Spanish-shape purple...

Extracts from a three-part review which I published in August; all three parts now together. It seems to me that our present 'Between th...

But, in a Council whose convoking Pontiff expected it to end by Christmas, Our Lady Mediatrix of All Graces soon disappeared from the agenda...

I wish, finally, to have a look at the Council's oddest feature: the contrast, contradiction, between the expectations the Fathers had i...

(1) I suggested that the Holy Father's claim that "the presence of the Pope is, for everybody, a guarantee of orthodoxy", im...

A very nice video over on EPONYMOUS FLOWER of the SSPX Pontifical High Mass in the Concrete Submarine at Lourdes. When they were there in 20...

There's never any harm in reviewing a book that came out some time ago: so, today, you will have my views on Piero Marini's book A C...

The Holy Father has criticised  the fault of " wanting to close oneself within the written word , and not allowing oneself to be surpri...

In Mgr Ronald Knox's brilliant collection of Essays in Satire , there is a piece about a 'Professor' who invents a new sin. Now,...

How easy it is to make a slip of the tongue ... last Sunday morning, introducing Cardinal Nichols on the Radio, Edward Stourton mispronounce...

Towards the end of his speech concluding his Synod our Holy Father Pope Francis delivered the following very fine passage: "Il Papa, ...

There was something in the Public Papers to the effect that the Church of England's General Synod is to debate modifying the Seal of the...