Comment: Enjoy the above excellent talk by Irish priest, Father David Sherry, SSPX, Superior of the District of Canada. At 46 minutes, it's a bit longer than we usually post, but well worth watching right through. Father Sherry served in the Scottish SSPX churches for a while (not long enough!) soon after his ordination. As evident...
The light that shone in the Church during eleven years of pontificate was extinguished on August 20, 1914. Pope Pius X fell sick on the Feast of the Assumption of Our Lady (Aug. 15) and received extreme unction and Holy Viaticum before dying. He was buried August 23, and his tomb immediately became the...
Pope Saint Pius X is one of the greatest of the Pope Saints in the Church's calendar. Reading about his love for Holy Mother Church is both edifying and exhilarating. His very first encyclical is outstanding and is equally applicable to today's world as when the Pope Saint first penned it. And, had...
Read (or, for now, simply dip into) two key texts for our times: firstly, the landmark encyclical of Pope Saint Pius X Pascendi (on the doctrine of the Modernists) and Archbishop Lefebvre's Open Letter to Confused Catholics and then share your thoughts. And consider this: the Pontifical High Mass in the Parish of the Immaculate...
Joseph Sarto was born in Riese in Venetia on Jun 2nd, 1835. He was successively curate, parish priest, Bishop of Mantua, patriarch of Venice. He was elected Pope on August 4, 1903. As chief pastor of the Church he realised to the full the value of the liturgy as the prayer of the Church...
The following extract from a Christian Order editorial in January, 2002, comes into my mind from time to time: ...Clearly, none of these men would consider themselves Modernists, let alone spiritual racketeers enmeshed in England's Modernist Mob. They would either deride such a quaint term or take it as a complimentary reference to their thoroughly...
At my Catholic boarding school in the late 1950s there was a jolly priest who heard my confession in his room rather than in a vacant confessional box. After I had recited my laundry list of petty sins, he asked if I was ever tempted to 'commit a sexual sin by myself'. He suggested that...
