Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment

Tomorrow, in old calendars, the Holy Maccabees were celebrated - indeed, they still get a commemoration in the Old Mass. These were the seve...

In his latest lecture, the very admirable and very courageous Cardinal Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Rites (Oops ... have I perpetra...

Today is the 75th Anniversary of the Sunday upon which the Dutch Hierarchy had ordered a Pastoral Letter to be read in all their churches, p...

Ah, S James the Great, Compostella ... how often have I sat, perhaps for half an hour or more, just gazing at wonder at the great Portico de...

Again, I am taking a week off from moderating and enabling comments. I shall endeavour to give you something to read each day, but I shall r...

A little more about Paragraph 57 (2) of Sacrosanctum Concilium. "Salva tamen sit semper sit cuique sacerdoti facultas Missam singular...

In the 9th Reading at Mattins on this feast of S Mary Magdalene, we find S Augustine writing about the Woman Who Was A Sinner: "If such...

You will have been asking: does this Working Paper forget to mention the explicit words of Sacrosanctum Concilium , of the liturgical books,...

Today: a couple of dogs that failed to bark in the night. (1) Dog A is the CDW, still nominally under the direction of the disgraced not-s...

A priest of my acquaintance has recently acquired a new dog, a Rottweilerish mongrel with a rather uncertain temper. (The animal has none of...

I do not know whence this proposal ultimately arises, but it seems to me to bear all the hallmarks of the current regime. We have come to re...

Readers will be familiar with the document described recently by Professor Roberto de Mattei on the Rorate Blog, designed to intimidate tho...