Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment

UPDATE :   The Mint has chickened, and illiterately decided that their monarch is Charles and not Carolus .   May she rest in peace and ris...

War is, indeed, a vile thing, as I wrote in my post of 18 April this year.  But medals can be beautiful things; witness the magnificent piec...

 I return to the urgent canonical question of proceedings against popes whose orthodoxy has been called into doubt. With regard to Pope Berg...

 I recently attempted to lighten your moods by offering you a selection of the verbal trinities ... Liberte Egalite Fraternite and the rest...

I don't blame the Council; there is nothing, as far as I am aware, in any of its documents to justify all the antisemitism which followe...

So the chattering classes are full of grief about the death of their heroine Hilary Mantel. I'm not a historian: but I've not heard ...

(1) From North America, a kind friend sends me Byzantine Rite parish newsletters the blank formats of which appear to be mass produced. The...

In 2008, on the Jubilee of the Appearance at Lourdes, the medieval Arms of the Primatial See of Canterbury ... blue, with representations of...

Some readers may have heard that, out of the disorders of revolutionary France, eventually emerged the graciously unifying formula LIBERTY E...

During the 1549 Western Rebellion, one of the complaints made by the Catholic rebels was that Cranmer's 1549 Protestant Eucharistic rite...

 An erudite friend raises questions about Traditionis Custodes : "What does it mean for a liturgical reform to be 'valid' [see ...

In celebrating the Usus Authenticus , a cleric is supposed to follow the Universal Calendar as modified by the local Calendar granted by the...