The video below actually came to me from the Holy Family Apostolate in Edinburgh, as a PowerPoint slide show. Our webmaster managed to get it into video format for use on this blog, but, unfortunately, without the music. The music served to underline the tragic poignancy of the pictures of this once beautiful Catholic...
On Aug. 6, 2013, Andrea Tornielli of “Vatican Insider” published an interview with Fr. Alessandro Apollonio, the Procurator General of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate, in which they discussed the Holy See's recent decision to restrict the order's use of the so-called "Extraordinary Form." The decree issued by the Congregation for Religious, with the...
The following conversation took place recently, between our blogger Petrus and a Glasgow priest. The identity of the priest really doesn't matter. Since Petrus was not speaking to him on behalf of Catholic Truth we decided not to publish his name. In any case it could be any priest in Glasgow and, indeed, beyond....
For the First Time, Francis Contradicts Benedict He has touched upon the sore spot of the Mass in the ancient rite. Ratzinger permitted its celebration for all. Bergoglio has prohibited it for one religious order that favored it. "...the Holy Father Francis has directed that every religious of the congregation of the Franciscan Friars of the...
