The Latin Mass

full coverage in The Times.

Knock me down with a feather

Joan Chittister, OSB does not like the Latin Mass- not one bit of it.

Neo-Catechumenal Way in Vienna

Liturgy, Jim, but not as we know it.

Baptismal font here, does not indicate that original sin is taken away, rather than the baptised are entering an elite, who consider themselves a priesthood of all believers. Dangerous. I should say so.

Both Prisoners have now been released

Feast of the Seven Holy Brothers

Sons of St Felicitas of Rome

(link also has their history)

Like is full of decisions

for the Jesuit priest, Lukas Niederberger. To help others take decisions, he has even written a book.

He has just taken a big decision himself. He has applied for laicisation- although looking at this picture he secularised himself years ago.


The grounds for this is that the Church has only taken massive backwards steps in recent years. What he really means is that they could not run fast enough, even if they wanted to with Father's radicalism.

Our Lady of the Star of the Sea Chapel

under threat owned by an outfit that is registered as "a trust". "The trust" wamts to demolish.

Liturgical Restoration

has some way to go in the Diocese of Mainz, where Cardinal Lehmann is responsible for liturgical excellence.