Guest Contributor Archive
By: Cornelia R. Ferreira Here we go again – Fatima suffers another round of distortions and doubletalk, courtesy of Cardinal Raymond Burke’s May 19th speech at the Rome Life Forum. In established modernist style, it’s an intriguing blend of truth and novel errors. …
By: Dr. Robert Hickson It was only in late August of 2007 in Brazil that I came more intimately to know John Vennari—and thus to perceive his varied high qualities and warmth of heart–especially because the two of us then had a few …
By: Louis J. Tofari I was associated with a traditional parish where there was written instruction on cards in the pews saying to kneel after the Sanctus, and not when the bells ring for the Sanctus. In practice, what I tended to see …
By: Randy Engel Introduction “You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” Abraham Lincoln President Lincoln may or may not have uttered these …
By: Louis J. Tofari Why is the Sign of the Cross made specifically 52 times during the Mass by the celebrant? This fact is mentioned in the Ecclesia Dei red missalette, and I suspect it has some kind of significance. I have asked …
By: Louis J. Tofari I have been attending the traditional Mass for about 7 years now. The element of the Mass that is so satisfying to me was found in its reverence. Every Mass I attended, regardless of the celebrant, was done in …
By: Louis J. Tofari A reader writes: I am a great follower of the Traditional Latin Mass. It was the Mass of my youth and I remember how I enjoyed it. After Summorum Pontificum I have found SSPX priests that come to my …
By: Louis J. Tofari A reader writes: So many traditionalists seem to think that no NO Mass can be an actual sacrifice or deliver the true Eucharist. It’s the TLM or nothing for them. While I much prefer the TLM, I’m thinking the …
By: Louis J. Tofari A reader writes: I heard a sermon by a traditional priest describing the role of the paten at Mass: He explained that the paten represents the Israelites and that, in the TLM, the Host is removed from the paten …
By: Robert Siscoe As Louie mentioned, our replies are getting a bit longer, but I would encourage those interested in this topic to stay with us as we are now getting into important material. Regarding Canon 194, Louie wrote: “According to Can. 194, …
