Cardinal Rigali on Introducing Seminarians to the 1962 Missal

 
By Annamarie Adkins
PHILADELPHIA, MARCH 14, 2008 (Zenit.org).- Since Benedict XVI has said that the Mass celebrated according to the 1962 Roman Missal promulgated by Blessed John XXIII should be available to those who prefer it, seminarians should be taught to say it, says Cardinal Justin Rigali.
The Pope clarified in his apostolic letter “Summorum Pontificum” that [...]

Publication of Official Text of Summorum Pontificum in its Definitive Legal Version

The explanatory guidelines are expected soon!
Gianni Cardinale reports in today’s issue of the semi-official daily of the Italian Episcopal Conference, Avvenire (transcript), that the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum has been finally published in the official gazette of the Holy See, the Acta Apostolicae Sedis (dated September 7, 2007, and including the official acts of the [...]

Archbishop Burke Proves Lightning Strikes Twice in the Same Place!

 
Play it again Sam! 
By: http://stlouiscatholic.blogspot.com/
Yes, it’s true. Yet another decree of excommunication was published in the St. Louis Review today. This time it is a decree against Stanley Rozanski and Bronsalaa (Bernice) Krauze, members of the Board of the Polish St. Stanislaus Kostka Corporation. For some reason that I cannot fathom, it does not [...]

EWTN to Televise upcoming FSSP Ordinations by Cardinal Hoyos in Lincoln, Nebraska

 
Lincoln, Nebraska -  In a phone conversation with Father Josef M.  Bisig, FSSP, Rector at Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary, Una Voce Carmel has confirmed today that EWTN will televise the FSSP ordinations at the Cathedral of the Risen Christ, Lincoln, Nebraska at 10:00 AM on Friday, May 30, 2008. 

His Eminence Dario Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos, [...]

Archbishop’s death could drive Iraqi Christians underground

 
Baghdad, Mar 14, 2008 / 03:37 am (CNA). - A group called Iraqi Christians in Need (ICIN) has said that the killing of Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho in Mosul could force the Church underground.
Archbishop Rahho was kidnapped by assailants on February 29 in Mosul.  In an interview with Aid to the Church in Need, Chaldean [...]

Title of Pope’s third Encyclical “Caritas in Veritate”

 
VATICAN CITY, Mar 14, 2008 - The Holy Father’s third encyclical will discuss Catholic social teaching.  ANSA reports that the encyclical will be titled “Caritas in Veritate,” “Love in Truth,” and it will build upon the previous encylicals Populorum Progressio by Pope Paul VI & Sollicitoud Rei by John Paul II.  The four chapter encyclical [...]

East Palo Alto, California Church Revives Tridentine Mass

   
Latin liturgy was previously lost to modernization
By Christine Morente, Staff Writer, TRI-VALLEY HERALD
EAST PALO ALTO, CA - With reverence, the Rev. Larry Goode raised the Eucharist high above his head and prayed aloud in the sacred language: “Ecce Agnus Dei, ecce qui tollit peccata mundi.”

At that, many congregants looked down at their Latin-English missal and [...]