Remembering Cardinal Virgilio Noè
If you think that he did not care, as many prelates, about who and what was playing, you would be “hugely wrong.”
Articles
Homily: 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
“The wonderful thing about Jesus and His teaching is that it is within the grasp of everyone.”
Pope Benedict XVI Reveals Why He Issued Summorum Pontificum on 7 July 2007
“A community is calling into question its very being when it suddenly declares its holiest and highest possession to be strictly forbidden … Can it be trusted any more about anything else?”
What Should Female Lectors Wear At Mass?
Not one shred of iconographical evidence contradicts the alb as being a priestly vestment.
Family Von Trapp & Celebration “Versus Populum”
Is the Trapp Family priest saying Mass “facing the people” in the 1930s?
Colloquium Update IV
The Glories of A Single Proper
If we took music seriously
“Great importance is to be attached to the teaching and practice of music in seminaries, in the novitiates and houses of study of religious of both sexes, and also in other Catholic institutions and schools. To impart this instruction, teachers are to be carefully trained and put in charge of the teaching of sacred music.”
Colloquium Update III
“Minding the Gap” — Organ Improvisation
Colloquium Update II
Resources for Accompanying Gregorian Chant
Should We Sing Patriotic Hymns at Mass?
I love patriotic hymns. But should we sing them at mass?
Colloquium Update I
All the things I love about the Colloquium experience are here in force: an extraordinary faculty, magnificent liturgies, good fellowship, etc.
Music Rules Over Us
Music is like a food that either makes us healthy or sick; indeed, it shapes our souls in its image.
Bishop Conley Sings “Salve Regina” With A Whole Pack Of Bishops
How often do you see a whole bunch of bishops sitting around singing the Salve Regina?
Why On Earth Would Anyone Do This?
Am I a hypocrite?
Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #55
I will be releasing hundreds of these B/W religious line art drawings for free and instant download. These beautiful Catholic “woodcuts” were done with magnificent skill. “Download Free Traditional Catholic Clipart”