Monthly Archive: December 2013
According to a report from Public Radio International: On Christmas Eve … Throngs of Israeli Jews clamored at the gate of the Dormition Abbey about an hour and a half early to get a good seat at Midnight Mass. Seats were snatched up …
“Catholic Church Year in Review” from the perspective of a Neo-Pelagian Restorationist in exile. Catholic Church Year in Review 2013 from Louie Verrecchio on Vimeo.
Considerable shock is being expressed by Catholics over that demonic little wretch who disrupted Christmas Mass at the Cologne Cathedral by jumping on the altar topless. Contributing in no small measure to the disgust of believers of every stripe are the words she …
“That an ecumenical council which satisfies the conditions above stated is an organ of infallibility will not be denied by anyone who admits that the Church is endowed with infallible doctrinal authority.” This according to the Catholic Encyclopedia’s entry on Infallibility; the …
First Things recently ran a piece by Professor Robert George entitled, Our Big Brothers in the Faith, that although ostensibly written in response to the SSPX members who disrupted an interfaith service at the Cathedral in Buenos Aires commemorating Kristallnacht (a two day …
Archbishop Gerhard Muller stirred the ecclessial pot last week when he said of the Society of St. Pius X in an interview with the Italian newspaper, Corriere della Sera: “The canonical excommunication due to the illicit ordination was lifted from the bishops, …
The photo below shows the altar prepared for High Mass at Midnight at St. Alphonsus in Baltimore last night where I had the privilege of offering special intentions on behalf of everyone who visits this space, from the most prolific commenters to the …
Once upon a time, there was a neighborhood with a very large old house flanked on either side by smaller, newer dwellings. Pete, the owner of the big house, has always insisted that no one may enter without his express permission. Reasonable though …
On the heels of yesterday’s post and the always lively commentary that it generated… Cardinal Burke’s comments are highly significant, not because one has any reasonable hope that he’s going to rescue the Church from the present crisis, nor because he is an …
I recently had the pleasure of joining Joe Bagnoli on VOCR to discuss the direction in which Pope Francis appears to be leading the Church based on insights derived from recent comments made by Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga.
