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Article About the Laocoon - its Provenance and the Impact on Michelangelo, by...
Matt Collins sent this to me today - an article in Epoch Times about the famous Laocoon in the Vatican Museum. Recent scholarship has suggested that what we have is a copy and that even Pliny the...
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Is Pope Francis Stepping Away from Summorum?
The Catholic web is buzzing about the column by Sandro Magister this morning. He reports of a July 11 decree from the Vatican congregation for religious life: "The decree bears the date of July 11,...
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'Pope Francis has not contradicted Pope Benedict.'
A reader has sent us a link to the the Mary Victrix blog which has a post by 'Fr Angelo', apparently a member of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate. Fr Angelo writes:Pope Francis has also severely...
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The Recent Decree Concerning the FFI - Full Text in English.
From the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. Protocol number 52741/2012 The Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic...
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The Letter of the Apostolic Commissioner to the FFI - Full Text in English
To the Brethren and the Fraternities of the Congregation of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate, in all their abodes. Peace and Charity! The Holy Father Pope Francis has entrusted to me the...
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The Tedious Press Narrative of Pope Francis
Truth: I've personally found many aspects of this papacy to be annoying, and struggled against that feeling from the beginning. I'm hardly alone in this. Many Benedict partisans have felt this way....
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The Non-Verbal Language of Beauty - A Presentation on Art and Architecture...
Here is a report of the presentation on architecture and art by Fr Michael Lang of the Brompton Oratory at the Sacra Liturgia 2013. I hope I have done it justice. Once again this was posted first on...
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Pope Francis on the Divine Liturgy: "The center is God..."
With all the talk of Pope Francis, this item, courtesy of Robert Moynihan (http://themoynihanletters.com) should greatly interest the readers of NLM. Â (Note that this excerpt is from Letter #78, which...
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A New Oratorian Parish in York
Bishop Drainey of Middlesborough has invited the Oratorians of Oxford to take on the Parish of St Wilfrid's in York. St Wilfrid's is the largest Catholic church in York (originally intended to be a...
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Online Gregorian Chant Academy (Everyone Can Learn)
This is just a brilliant addition to our world. The platform allows anyone to learn Gregorian chant. No need to wait for a seminar to come to you. You learn from your desktop or laptop. Click on the...
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Liturgy and Evangelism - Prince of Peace Parish in SC
A story from the National Catholic Register today highlights a parish which celebrates both forms of the Roman rite, as well as the ability of liturgy well-celebrated to attract people to the Catholic...
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Two new potential Oratories in the USA
In my last post I mentioned two new communities in formation for the Oratory in Washington and St Louis. The Fathers in Washington DC have been resident at St Thomas, Apostle since 10 July. Here are...
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Why Do We Care About Beautiful Things?
It has long struck me as strange that so many people in the Catholic world seem to consider the love and longing for beauty in the liturgy to be a matter of reproach. The traditional Catholic is...
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James MacMillan on Scotland's Inaugural National Music Day
National Music Day 2013, promoted officially by the Archdiocese of Glasgow, will be Musica Sacra Scotland's inaugural conference. The event, on Saturday 9 November, will undoubtedly mark the beginning...
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NLM's 8th Anniversary
Today is the eighth anniversary of the New Liturgical Movement, and our first under the new editorial staff. We cannot let the day pass without a word of thanks to our founder Shawn Tribe, for his...
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Happy 300th to the Oratorians of Verona!
This year the Oratory in Verona is celebrating its 300th anniversary. The Oratorians were given the Church of San Fermo Minor by Bishop Gianfrancesco Barbarigo in an official decree signed on 20 April...
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Compendium of the 1961 Revision of the Pontificale Romanum - Part 11.3: The...
My apologies to those readers who have been following this series for the interruption since mid-June. I will do my best to keep the series going to its conclusion within the next few weeks. The...
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Solemn High Mass from Norcia
The 4th-Annual Missa Solemnis for the Feast of St. Anne was held at St. Ann Catholic Church in Charlotte, North Carolina on the feastday of the church's patron saint. The Mass was offered by Father...
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A Newly Renovated Rose Window at St Mary's Cathedral, Austin Texas...Almost
Here are some photographs of the restored Rose Window at St Mary's Cathedral in Austin, Texas...well, almost. The window has been removed and part by part restored. All that remains is for it to be...
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The Liturgical Role of Flying Fish Puppets
I can't stop thinking about my friends who work with and attended the National Association of Pastoral Musicians annual convention meeting this year. They are among a group that is doing its best to...
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