Colin Mawby & Annibale Bugnini
It’s odd to hear Archbishop Annibale Bugnini talk about “chant in its ever stimulating freshness.”
Articles
Pope Francis Goes To Confession
“Pope Francis told the crowd that often when he heard confessions in Buenos Aires, he would ask penitents if they had given alms to those begging on the church steps. If they said yes, he would ask if they looked the person in the eye and if they touched the person or just threw coins at him or her.”
Bishop Bans Eulogies
“Dumbing Down” Does No Service to Faith
General Instruction of the Roman Missal (PDF)
Download: “Institutio Generalis Missalis Romani”
Give us our words back! (1 of 3)
I have a hard time believing that nuns told young Catholics, “Whatever you do, don’t read the Bible!” Seriously?
Everybody hates a hypocrite! (2 of 3)
A particular Greek manuscript may or may not be more ancient than, for instance, St. Jerome’s Latin Vulgate.
A Very Cool Thing! (3 of 3)
A section of the Gospel of John dating sometime around 120 A.D. (!!!)
What not to do on GitHub
Read my mistakes to save yourself the trouble.
Help! What does Fr. Deryck Hanshell mean?
USCCB Secretariat of Divine Worship: “The GIRM never speaks to every possible scenario that could take place.”
Bishop Christensen Attempts To Ban “Ad Orientem”
“There is nothing in the Council text about turning altars toward the people.” — Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
Pope Pius X: The Pope Who Carried His Shoes
Named Bishop of Mantua, Sarto began in 1884 to teach dogma courses in the Seminary, giving each student a personal copy of the “Summa Theologiae.”
Musings of an Aristotelian Catholic
In the mystery of the Incarnation, God takes delight in responding to man’s sensible, bodily nature, and the resulting need for tasting and touching our God.
First, the Priests
The importance of the priest singing the orations at Mass.
Singing Propers and Ordinary . . . at Low Mass?
“And the practice of saying a Low Mass while the choir sings bits of things is too dreadful to be described.” — Fr. Adrian Fortescue, 1912
The Gift of Music
Whose Gift Is It?