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Preston – a rare Catholic cityscape

preston is today a city of some 120,000 inhabitants. it is situated on the north bank of the ribble in lancashire. it is relatively unique a...

Traditionis Custodes: When "professional Catholic" squabbling spills over

cardinal lorenzo baldisseri at the holy see press office on oct. 2, 2019. (file photo, cns/paul haring)   i remember once attending a r...

Charles Collins

On the unity of the Church in our times

in a homily preached on 18 july 2021 at the monastère saint-benoît, liturgical scholar dom alcuin reid offers both a reflection on the place...

Muggeridge on the meaning of life in a monastery

founded in 1946, nunraw abbey (from "nun's row") was the first cistercian monastery in scotland since the reformation. the monastery, locate...

FromtheArchives

What Benedict XVI thought about liturgical change

a week after joseph ratzinger became pope benedict xvi, liturgical scholar dom alcuin reid predicts what he will do about the liturgy. a mon...

Lessons from the Archives

Four reasons Francis had to restrict the traditional Latin Mass

this opinion piece will not be tactfully phrased. many essays in the past few days have tried to balance both positive and negative views of...

Francis could do what he did, but that's not the crucial thing

pope francis has placed very significant restrictions on the saying of the old mass, abrogating the much more permissive or generous policy ...

Don't apologise for the inquisition

reviewing a book called inquisition: the reign of fear by toby green, quentin de la bedoyere warns against apologetic attempts to rationaliz...

Lessons from the Archives

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

by courtney mares. rome, italy, jul 19, 2021 / 16:00 pm. the former head of the congregation for the doctrine of the faith has critiqued pop...

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Summorum Pontificum: a restoration after a gross impoverishment

though it has just been rejected by his successor, benedict xvi's motu propi o summorum pontificum made many people happy when he issued it ...

Lessons from the Archives

Elizabeth Jennings: The Catholic bag-lady of poetry

the poet elizabeth jennings was born on this day in 1926. a devout catholic, she attended st anne's college, oxford, where she lived all her...

FromtheArchives

Twelve quick thoughts on Pope Francis dropping his long-expected bomb on the traditional latin Mass

1) in his motu proprio  traditionis custodes , pope francis says st. john paul ii's indults were only meant to heal the breach with arc...

Breaking: Pope Francis issues restrictions on extraordinary form Masses in new motu proprio

vatican city, jul 16, 2021 / 04:45 am. pope francis issued a motu proprio on friday restricting masses celebrated in the extraordinary form ...

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Spanish medical body: Threat to conscientious objection on abortion ‘unacceptable, illegal, and unjust’

madrid, spain, jul 14, 2021 / 05:30 am. a body representing spain’s medical colleges said on monday that a government minister’s threat to c...

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Vatican economy council meets in person to discuss investment policy

vatican city, jul 15, 2021 / 09:00 am. members of the vatican’s council for the economy met in person on wednesday and thursday to discuss t...

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A slippery slope: When Catholics follow their reason straight out of the Church

forty-some years ago, i sat in on meetings of the presumptuously-named philosophers club, which met in the home of its san diego founder, a ...

Pope Francis returns to Vatican after colon surgery

the car, with darkened windows, taking pope francis back to the vatican after his stay at the gemelli hospital for colon surgery.   by ...

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Priest beaten, arrested amid Cuba protests

camagüey, cuba, jul 12, 2021 / 12:03 pm. father castor álvarez was beaten and arrested in camagüey while he was defending young protesters a...

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The English team, he says, is the "enemy of truth, beauty, and goodness"

yes, someone said that. and not a crank either, or at least not the angry living-in-his-mother's-basement crank you meet on the internet. hi...

Vatican says Pope Francis to leave hospital "as soon as possible"

a tv crew works outside the gemelli hospital in rome, 12 july 12 2021, where pope francis will spend "a few more days" following his colon s...

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