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Beyond Politics
Peace is the precondition for all good and holy things. From St. Peter's.
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From Romania: Ceremony in Honor of the Blessed Vladmir Ghika, Priest and Martyr
Several days ago we reported on the Beatification of Mons. Vladimir Ghika, a priest martyred by the Communist regime of Romania in 1954. Our reader Viviana Dimcev has sent some pictures of a ceremony...
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Singing opportunities for Catholic children around the world
Following my recent request for information on Catholic Children's Choirs, I have received information on the following choirs in the United States, the United Kingdom and France. Please notify me of...
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Traditional Liturgy and the Shaping of the Self
If one were looking to mount a theological defense of the Church’s longstanding practice of ensuring rich vestments and paraments, splendid vessels, glorious architecture, elaborate ritual, and so...
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Photos of Completed Chalice and Paten Commissioned by New Anglican...
Earlier in the summer I mentioned, here, that the newly created parish of St Gregory the Great in Beverly Farms, Massachusetts had commissioned a chalice and paten in a traditional English design. I am...
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Treasures of the Patriarchal Chapel in Lisbon
The Portuguese blog Semper Idem has a nice post with photographs from an ongoing exposition of liturgical objects from the Royal and Patriarchal Chapel of Lisbon. Some of these objects show the...
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Anglican Ordinariate Priestly Ordination and Mass of Thanksgiving
Recently, in Melbourne, Australia, Bishop Elliott ordained another priest for the Anglican Ordinariate. Congratulations to the Rev. Richard Waddell, who was ordained. He will now be leaving to study...
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EF Confirmations in England
We have just received some photographs from the FSSP Apostolate in Reading, England. On Saturday August 3, H.E. Bishop Philip Egan of Portsmouth in England conferred the sacrament of Confirmation in...
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A Tribute to the Decision to Be a Priest
My piece in Crisis Magazine this morning: I heard an excellent homily last week, delivered by a young priest who spoke with passion and energy. It was clearly his own take on how the Gospel reading for...
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Dominican Rite Masses in the California Bay Area
Dominican Rite Mass at St. Albert the Great Priory Those readers who live in the San Francisco Bay Area may be interested in local celebrations of the Traditional Dominican Rite. This academic...
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Adeste Fideles and other treasures at St Edmund's College, Ware
Set in the green countryside of Hertfordshire to the north of London lies St Edmund's College, Ware. St Edmund's, the oldest Catholic college in England, was originally opened as a seminary and later...
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Festival of Our Lady of Walsingham
A reader sends this information about a festival for Our Lady of Walsingham: Solemn High Mass and Procession on Saturday 28th September 2013, 11 am. Celebrant: the Bishop of Portsmouth, Rt. Revd....
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Exhibition of Litany of Loreto Embroideries at Hampton Court in London
Anne Gomes, a New Liturgical Movement reader brought to my attention an exhibition put on by the Royal College of Needlework of fine turn of the century embroidery of vestments which is taking place...
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Matrimony according to the Use of the Philippine Islands
Today, on this very same eve of Exaltation Roodmas, also that of the 6th anniversary of the promulgation of the celebrated apostolic letter Summorum Pontificum of Benedict XVI, Pope emeritus, a...
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CNS Covers Monks of Norcia
Recently, Catholic News Service covered our friends, the Monks of Norcia. The first is about their brewing business, and the second about their liturgy and music, and beauty in particular.
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Continuity and Discontinuity in Liturgy and Theology
The fundamental problem in modern Catholic theology, as in modern Catholic worship and life, is rupture and discontinuity with Tradition—that is, the modernism of breaking with the living identity of...
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Buckfast Abbey - 20th Century Geometric Patterned Art and Architecture Using...
I spent a few days at Buckfast Abbey in Devon, England recently (I was part of the Maryvale Institute's residential summer school Art, Beauty and Inspiration from a Catholic Perspective). There seem to...
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Mass at the Shrine of St. Joseph
Posted here: Yesterday, Canon Raphael Ueda, ICKSP, Vicar of the St. Francis de Sales Oratory in St. Louis, offered a High Mass in the Extraordinary Form at the beautiful Shrine of St. Joseph in north...
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Solemn High Mass with the Archbishop of Singapore
From this site: Singapore made history when Archbishop William Goh attended Solemn High Mass last Sunday at the Chapel of St. Joseph's Institute. This is the first time that an Archbishop attended a...
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Juventutem Miami and Floridian Seminarians Attending the TLM
I am delighted to announce that Miami is the newest chapter of Juventutem in the U.S. The following announcement is from Mr. Aramis Perez, a friend in the Latin Mass community here in Miami, and the...
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