From Rorate Caeli... Fifty years ago this weekend, the Catholic Church debuted a new version of Mass following reforms made by the 1960s’ Second Vatican Council. From the use of vernacular language instead of Latin, to the priest facing the people instead of the tabernacle, the changes became mandatory at all parishes on the First...
Pope Francis gave an address on the liturgical reform of Pope Paul VI today, speaking to participants of the 68th Italian National Liturgical Week. In it, Francis declares: "After this magisterium, after this long journey, we can affirm with certainty and with magisterial authority that the liturgical reform is irreversible." Francis' remarks ironically read like a Quo Primum for...
From America Magazine... An ordinary Sunday morning. No parish assignment, no preaching. So I decide to go to a church that celebrates the Latin Mass every Sunday at 11 AM. I knew it would be in Latin, but I wasn’t sure if it would be the old Tridentine or new post-Vatican II Latin Mass. Clearly...
Note: the video originally posted here was removed from YouTube... I've not amended the text in the comment below because the same issues apply, whether it's one priest or several. Click here to read The Remnant's exhortation to the Society of St Pius X, to regularize now! Comment: Would YOU attend a Mass celebrated by any...
[Yesterday] mark[ed] the 50th anniversary of the first "Mass in Italian" to be ever celebrated, an event deemed important enough to be celebrated by the current Pope with a special commemorative Mass at the same church in Rome (Parrocchia di Ognissanti, Via Appia Nuova, 244) where it took place. The original Mass was celebrated...
The Tabernacle of the Catholic Church in Doha, Qatar (Arabian Gulf) behind the new style altar. Blogger, Benedict Carter has submitted an article on the Mass which will be published in full in our newsletter, in the near future. In the meantime, he's kindly agreed to allow us to discuss an extract here - share your thoughts... Cardinals Ottaviani and...
Our blogger Leprechaun writes: We have discussed at length on the blog the issue of Invincible Ignorance and it is often related to newly-discovered tribes who have never had a visit from a missionary. What of the hordes of main-stream Catholics who blindly followed their priests and bishops into the Novus Ordo liturgy, or who...
Q - [a]re we obliged in conscience to attend the Novus Ordo Missae? A - If the Novus Ordo Missae is not truly Catholic, then it cannot oblige for one’s Sunday obligation. Many Catholics who do assist at it are unaware of its all pervasive degree of serious innovation and are exempt from guilt. However,...
