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A Review of Peter Kwasniewski’s Book on NRO
National Review Online has just today published a review which I wrote of Peter Kwasniewski’s book Noble Beauty, Transcendent Holiness, which you can read at the following...
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Day of Recollection with Fr. Cassian Folsom in Des Moines, September 30th
Our friends at Una Voce Des Moines have asked us to let readers know about an upcoming Day of Recollection with Fr. Cassian Folsom, OSB, founder of the Monastery of Norcia. His conferences will focus...
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Looking for New Insights into Scripture?
In his famous treatise De Doctrina Christiana, destined to be one of the most widely read works in the later Western tradition, St. Augustine recommends that Christians who are serious about studying...
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The Psalms in Words, Pictures and Prayer
A new online course in Scripture is now available for the first time, offered as part of Pontifex University’s Masters in Sacred Arts. It is called the Psalms in Words, Pictures, and Prayer; we also...
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First EF Mass of a New Priest in Des Moines
On Sunday, Fr Trevor Chicoine, who was ordained in June, celebrated his first Missa cantata for the regularly scheduled Extraordinary Form Mass at St Anthony’s Catholic Church in Des Moines, Iowa. The...
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Art as Catechesis in a Baroque Confessional: Guest Article by Zachary Thomas
Andrea Fantoni (1659–1734) was the most illustrious member of a family of artists active mostly in the province of Bergamo from 1680 to the end of the following century. Between 1704 and 1705, at the...
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Liturgical Notes on the Ember Days of September
The origin of the English term “Ember Days” seems to be disputed. Some scholars claim it is merely a corruption of the Latin name “Quattuor Temporum – of the four times (or ‘seasons’)”, through the...
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St Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist
September 21st is the feast of St Matthew, and so I offer this as the latest in my running series on the images of the Saints named in the Roman Canon.St Matthew often has a long, wavy, white beard and...
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Archbishop Pozzo on Summorum Pontificum: Hope for the Future of the Church
We are extremely grateful to Archbishop Guido Pozzo, Secretary of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, for sharing with our readers the talk which he delivered last week to the Fifth Summorum...
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Problems with the Reformed Lectionary: A Summary
The published proceedings of the 2015 Sacra Liturgia USA conference contain many very interesting and fine papers, and I would thoroughly recommend them to those who have not yet read them. [1] Among...
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Photos of Bishop Perry’s Mass in Philadelphia
Last week, we posted the full video of the Pontifical Mass celebrated by Bishop Joseph Perry at the Cathedral Basilica of Ss Peter and Paul in Philadelphia, for the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy...
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Interview with Dr. Kwasniewski at O Clarim: “The Mass of all the Catholic...
The online journal O Clarimhas just published an interview about my book Noble Beauty, Transcendent Holiness that NLM readers might like to read. A couple of excerpts here:Aurelio Porfiri: Your book...
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Bishop Perry on “Summorum Pontificum” 10 Years Later
Photo courtesy of Brothers, Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Still River, Massachusetts)On Sept. 21st (Feast of St. Matthew), His Excellency Joseph Perry, Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago, celebrated...
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Objective Form and Subjective Experience: The Benedictine/Jesuit Controversy,...
Almost three years ago, I published an article here entitled “The Ironic Outcome of the Benedictine–Jesuit Controversy,” which in rewritten form became part of chapter 5, “Different Visions, Contrary...
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The Ordinariate Office Online (prayer.covert.org)
I am grateful to Dillon Knackstedt, a former student of mine at Thomas More College of Liberal Arts, who brought to my notice a resource for anyone wishing to pray the Divine Office of the Anglican...
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Upcoming Lecture with Dr. Peter Kwasniewsk in Steubenville, Ohio
For our readers within range of Steubenville, Ohio: I will be giving a lecture on Tuesday, October 3, at 7:00 pm, at St. Peter's Catholic Church. After the Q&A, there will be time for informal...
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Melkite Divine Liturgy on the Campus at Berkeley, CA, September 30th, 5pm.
There will be a Melkite Divine Liturgy on the Berkeley campus once again this month, starting at 5pm this Saturday (9/30) at the Gesu Chapel of the Jesuit School of Theology, located at 1735 Le Roy...
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The Artists in the Sacristy Have Been Busy
Our thanks once again to Fr Jeffrey Keyes and the Marian Sisters of Santa Rosa at the Regina Pacis Convent in Santa Rosa, California, where Fr Keyes serves as chaplain, for these photos of the clever...
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A Great Example of an Expurgated Reading in the New Lectionary
One of the many criticisms raised about the revised lectionary is that it either drops out passages that were a part of the Church’s traditional lectionary for centuries (and are still heard wherever...
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A Discussion on Liturgical Reform in 1980
Via a blog called Ex Laodicea, I recently stumbled across this fascinating episode of the program Firing Line, broadcast on April 22, 1980. The occasion for this discussion between the host, William F...
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