Mass ad orientem

New Guidebook for Trads to Become Apostles of Tradition

02/17/2024 at 3:04 PM By Kevin Edward White

By Dan Millete, One Peter Five, February 12, 2024 [Dr Peter Kwasniewski will be our featured Monthly Forum Luncheon speaker, on April 12, 2024. Dr. Kwasniewski will be speaking on: “DUE OBEDIENCE AND PETER’S SUCCESSOR: THE WHAT AND THE WHY.” A native of Arlington Heights, Illinois, and... read more

More US bishops require permission for priests to celebrate ‘ad orientem’

08/25/2023 at 1:28 PM By Kevin Edward White

The Pillar, August 23, 2023 Bishops in the United States continue to issue new restrictions on the celebration of the ordinary form of the Mass ad orientem alongside implementation of Pope Francis’ restrictions on the extraordinary form of the liturgy. The policies, now in place in... read more

Syro-Malabar leaders to discuss lasting peace for ‘liturgy war’ at Vatican

05/02/2023 at 10:36 PM By Kevin Edward White

By Luke Coppen, the Pillar, May 2, 2023 Indian Catholic leaders and Vatican officials are expected to discuss the Syro-Malabar Church’s liturgical crisis in Rome this week. Parishioners take part in a Way of the Cross outside the closed St. Mary’s Cathedral Basilica in Ernakulam,... read more

Unity, Charismatic Masses, and Africa

02/27/2023 at 12:02 PM By Kevin Edward White

Part Four of a response to Cavadini, Healy, and Weinandy's critique of the traditional Latin Mass. By Janet E. Smith, Crisis, February 27, 2023 The third essay in this series reviewed some of the difficulties attendant upon the genesis of the Novus Ordo (NO). It also challenged that... read more

The One Thread By Which the Council Hangs: a Response to Cavadini, Healy, and Weinandy

01/23/2023 at 9:52 AM By Kevin Edward White

By Dom Alcuin Reid, One Peter Five, January 19, 2023 “Don’t touch that! If you do, everything will collapse!” The warning is clear enough. Any sensible person would rapidly desist, lest their one seemingly minor act bring everything crashing down, undoing the work of many days, weeks,... read more

Arlington bishop offers path forward after implementing Traditional Latin Mass restrictions

08/18/2022 at 6:28 PM By Kevin Edward White

By Joe Bukuras, Catholic News Agency, August 17, 2022 Bishop Michael Burbidge offered some additional thoughts on the recent guidelines he issued restricting the Traditional Latin Mass in the Diocese of Arlington. The new restrictions were imposed following liturgical directives given by... read more

Latin and God’s Holy People

08/04/2022 at 7:18 PM By Kevin Edward White

By Anthony Esolen, Catholic Thing, August 4, 2022 I do not attend the Latin Mass. I believe that the Novus Ordo Mass can be filled with beauty, but that the surroundings, the habits that have grown into prescriptive laws, the ancillary people and their actions, and the problems with the... read more

The City of Big Shoulders — and Liturgical Confusion: Chicago Faithful Flummoxed by Inconsistent Liturgy Policy

06/27/2022 at 5:13 PM By Kevin Edward White

NEWS ANALYSIS: The juxtaposition of laxity for liturgical abuses with forceful crackdowns of reverent worship well beyond Pope Francis’s recent directives calls into question Cardinal Blase Cupich’s stated prioritization of promoting unity and the reforms of Vatican II. By Jonathan Liedl,... read more

Bishop Paprocki Discusses ‘Traditionis Custodes’: Liturgical Unity Doesn’t Mean Liturgical Uniformity

08/14/2021 at 3:31 PM By Kevin Edward White

The shepherd of Springfield, Illinois, who last month issued canonical dispensations for devotees of the traditional Latin Mass, said Pope Francis’ motu proprio doesn’t suppress the extraordinary form, as some claim. By Joan Frawley Desmond, National Catholic Register, August 4,... read more

Bishop Paprocki: “The problem has not been solved, but tensions have been heightened.”

07/28/2021 at 10:34 AM By Kevin Edward White

“It is a mistaken notion that those who attend [the Traditional Latin Mass] are merely nostalgic; that has not been my experience at all…” says the Bishop of the Diocese of Springfield, Illinois. “Anyone who thinks that when the older generation dies off that the Latin Mass will fade away... read more

Pope Francis and the Latin Mass: A Mistake?

07/23/2021 at 9:57 AM By Kevin Edward White

By David Deavel, Imaginative Conservative, July 22, 2021 Pope Francis’ new restrictions on the celebration of the “Old Mass” are made in the name of the “concord and unity” of the Church. But the pope’s move is much more likely to steel the resolve of those who make the argument... read more

Mass ad orientem

New Guidebook for Trads to Become Apostles of Tradition

More US bishops require permission for priests to celebrate ‘ad orientem’

Syro-Malabar leaders to discuss lasting peace for ‘liturgy war’ at Vatican

Unity, Charismatic Masses, and Africa

The One Thread By Which the Council Hangs: a Response to Cavadini, Healy, and Weinandy

Arlington bishop offers path forward after implementing Traditional Latin Mass restrictions

Latin and God’s Holy People

The City of Big Shoulders — and Liturgical Confusion: Chicago Faithful Flummoxed by Inconsistent Liturgy Policy

Bishop Paprocki Discusses ‘Traditionis Custodes’: Liturgical Unity Doesn’t Mean Liturgical Uniformity

Bishop Paprocki: “The problem has not been solved, but tensions have been heightened.”

Pope Francis and the Latin Mass: A Mistake?

Is This What the Church Needs Just Now?

Cardinal Müller critiques Pope Francis’ ‘harsh’ response to extraordinary form, compared to German Synodal Way

Of McCarrick, Jesuits, and Summorum Pontificum

Irrelevant Mass or Reverent Mass?

US bishop committed two grave errors in forbidding priests to say Mass ad orientem

Cardinal Burke: ‘I’m Called the Enemy of the Pope, Which I Am Not’ A conversation with Cardinal Raymond Burke.

‘Ad orientem’ tussles turn on matters of community, liturgical diversity

First Reactions of Teenage Boys to the Traditional Latin Mass

Worship Worthy of God