Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment

UPDATE: I first published this on October 17 2015. On rereading it, I feel that (even in a period in which ecclesiastical politics have move...

This is to make space for our contributor Mark Wauck to make some interesting remarks. See the Thread.

Three years ago, a Fr M J Butler, at that time the liturgical supremo in the diocese of Brentwood, wrote to the Tablet   a letter which he t...

This continues from the post of 23 January; Dom Gregory Dix is writing: Isn't it the same problem with the question of the 'sacrifi...

As we commemorate the profoundly iniquitous onslaught upon the Jews, commonly called the Holocaust, I hope we will not forget a deeply Chri...

A day or two ago, the word was going around that other diocesan pastors were being told that Fr Phillips met the Archbishop and was asked to...

I am sick to death of having my worst fears proved right ... daily. Just a few days ago, I wondered on this blog what Bishop Fellay, of the ...

CLARIFICATIONS:  (1) There are restrictions on who can formally join an Ordinariate. But there are no restrictions on worshipping in an Or...

Going back to the dark sub-Freudian preoccupations of those 'Successors of the Apostles' who base their own arcane apostasies on the...

Yet again, I repeat these old posts about Sacramental Intention because, yet again, there seem to be readers who do not understand what the ...

For a Mass to be valid, the celebrant has to "intend to do what the Church does". So, if a priest does not believe in Transsubsta...

I have written before about the frantic desire some who think of themselves as Ultra-Traditionalists have to discover 'invalidity' i...