Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment

Here is a post I published in April last year, just after the Holy Father had hosted an 'Armenian' Liturgy in Rome and had referred ...

What a tease this Referendum is. On the one hand , surely it is good to repudiate Henry Tudor's assertion that the Kingdom of England is...

O magnam concordiam mentium magnarum! In Encaeniis (quibus hodie interfuimus)  Oxoniensibus Orator Publicus, ducens ad Cancellarium Musicu...

You won't catch me agreeing with all those dreadful traddies on blogs like Rorate in criticising our Holy Father's splendidly crisp ...

A century ago today, Viscount Halifax delivered an address to an Anglo-Catholic Society; it seems to me that the remarks he made then to his...

I suspect that if you were to use the word Ecclesiology in any gathering of clergy or laity, eyes might glaze over. Yet in Ecclesiology is...

This won't mean anything at all to you unless you've read the first two parts. In 1570, S Pius V promulgated the Missal with which...

This is only comprehensible to those who have read part (1). Notice the word in the psalm which I put in italics I am going to use it as a...

Vatican II, in Sacrosanctum Concilium , mandated that liturgical innovations, if required by a 'true and certain usefulness', should...

Those who died in the most truly appalling events at Orlando ... may they, through the all-atoning Sacrifice of our most sweet Redeemer and ...

Sometimes it is suggested that we should see a significance in the fact that the beloved Pope Emeritus, our Holy Father Benedict XVI, contin...

 ... are to be sung tonight in Merton Chapel at 8.30, by the Schola Abelis. Wozzat you say?  Vespers of a III class feast displacing a Sun...