Charles Manson stole this song from the Beatles, We’re Stealing It Back

Read this Book. I think everyone who calls himself a follower of Christ (whether Protestant or Catholic) will enjoy this book. I appreciate how B16 engages the modern historical-critical method and yet points out where they stray too far from the historical, cultural and theological context of the text. The end result [...]

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Out with the Old, In with the Ancient

Here is an article from the Archdiocese of Chicago newspaper about the Tridentine Mass. The MP is again said to have no significance and everything will be status quo…. Yet the Canons Regular of St. John’s have been asked to train priests (from all over the US) in how to say the Tridentine Mass. [...]

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One Rite, Two Forms

A good article about my parish St. John Cantius: “One Rite, Two Forms.”

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The Convenient Truth Behind the MP

I haven’t been a Catholic for very long (officially I’m still not) however, when I was a member of the Anglican Communion, I had plenty of practice in decoding official church communications. I can now tell you the true meaning behind the Pope’s Motu Proprio “Summorum Pontificum.” Ignore all those ridiculous conspiracy theories, [...]

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The Solemn Prayers

A common complaint about the Tridentine Mass is that it is Anti-Semitic because once a year at the Good Friday service there is “the Prayer of the Faithful” which has many petitions one of which asks for the conversion of the Jews. How this is anti-semitic I have no idea; if we didn’t [...]

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Tridentine Mass

With all the recent excitement over B16’s motu proprio “Summorum Pontificum” I thought I would give you some thoughts on the Tridentine Mass.
The Novus Ordo Mass and its common liturgical abuses and accompanying [bad] music [at least in the US] was a hurtle I had to overcome when I decided to convert. I [...]

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