Guest Contributor Archive
By: Cornelia R. Ferreira On August 28th, aka Catholic published a rather prescient blog on an emerging “new” Fatima Center. In this posting, Louie Verrecchio observed that the Fatima Center (FC) was lessening its fight against errors, especially those concerning the Fatima Message, …
By: Louis J. Tofari I went with my family to a Novus Ordo Mass. (I prefer the TLM for its silence and reverence. But sadly, I made the exception as I wanted to be with them.) During the Consecration, I noticed that the priest …
By: Cornelia R. Ferreira It would seem that my previous article, Fatima Through the Lens of Vatican II: As Illustrated by Raymond Cardinal Burke, has ruffled quite a few feathers amongst the standard-bearers of the once-militant Traditionalist camp. The reaction exposes a synthesis …
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 …
