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27 September 2007 Will EWTN be broadcasting Mass with the 1962 Missal? CATEGORY: SESSIUNCULUM — Fr. John Zuhlsdorf @ 2:21 pm Yes… apparently. A kind reader sent me a copy on an e-mail received from EWTN’s Gordon Siobley responsding to a question about future broadcasts of the older form of Mass. EWTN plans to occasionally air the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, while continuing to regularly air the Ordinary Form, in order “to preserve the riches which have developed in the Church’s faith and prayer, and to give them their proper place� (Pope Benedict XVI, “Letter to Bishops...

From The New Liturgical MovementInstitute of Christ the King on EWTN Live (TV & Radio) about Historic Landmark building: The Shrine of Christ the King Sovereign PriestOn Wednesday, September 26th, at 8:00 pm ET (1:00 am GMT, September 27th) Msgr. R. Michael Schmitz, Vicar General of the Institute of Christ the King, and classical architect William Heyer will be on EWTN Live discussing the restoration of the Shrine of Christ the King Sovereign Priest, a historic landmark entrusted by the Archdiocese of Chicago to the care of the Institute of Christ the King. EWTN , the Global Catholic Network, can...

Marcus Grodi welcomes Dr. Francis Beckwith to the Journey Home, Monday September 24, 8pm (ET). Email questions to: journeyhome@ewtn.com

The Priestly Society of St. Peter, whom you see in the sanctuary today, would like to thank Mother Angelica, Mother Vicar and the Poor Clare community for their gracious invitation to celebrate this Mass here today in this magnificent church. We are particularly grateful to Bishop Foley of the Diocese of Birmingham for supporting our presence here today and to the members of the EWTN staff and board of directors of this tremendous enterprise, born of Mother Angelica’s faith and wisdom and which has been so fruitful for the needs of the Church all around the world now, for a...

Solemn High Mass of the "extraordinary form" of the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church, from the Shrine of the Blessed Sacrament in Alabama.

DENTON, Nebraska - AUGUST 17, 2007 - For the first time in its 26 year history, Mother Angelica's Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) will be broadcasting a live Solemn High Mass at the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Hanceville, Alabama on September 14, 2007 at 8:00AM EST. EWTN has asked for the assistance of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, an international Society of Apostolic Life of Pontifical Right, to help celebrate this "extraordinary" form. This past July 7th, Pope Benedict XVI affirmed the beauty and importance of the Tridentine Mass by issuing Summorum Pontificum, a papal document...

Yes, it is highly unusual for a Bishop to be transferred to a new diocese with a smaller population and an even smaller number of nominal Catholics. Yet, Birmingham, the new diocese of Robert Baker, the former Bishop of Charleston, includes one specific Catholic institution, which deserves special treatment (for better or for worse). From our collection of episcopal reactions to Summorum Pontificum: In a letter to priests of the Diocese of Charleston, SC, Bishop Robert J Baker takes a warm and positive position. Among the many good things he says are the following, "Let us use this time of...

July 30 Roundtable (former Pentecostals)

David J. Hartline  Other Articles by David J. HartlinePrinter Friendly Version   The Tide Is Turning Toward Catholicism: The Laity July 16, 2007 It started with anti-Catholic flyers on the windshields of cars in a Catholic church's parking lot.  One could argue that the modern post-Vatican II Catholic apologetics movement started with that act.  San Diego businessman Karl Keating became so upset about these flyers, he felt called to take action.  He subsequently started Catholic Answers and one of his first employees was Patrick Madrid.  For over 25 years, Catholic Answers has been providing Catholics with answers about their...

Fr. Francis Mary welcomes the The Community of Franciscan Sisters of the Renewal was Established in 1988 under the auspices of John Cardinal O’Connor of New York, with Fr. Andrew Apostoli, CFR, as Founding Father. The aim of the Community is to live the Gospel values in simplicity according to the ideals of Saint Francis as handed on by the Capuchin tradition. The spiritual values uniting the sisters are personal and communal commitment to Jesus Christ through contemplative and liturgical prayer (daily Mass and Divine Office), daily Eucharistic adoration, Fridays as a special day of prayer, a time set...

The Language of Tradition The pope brings back the Latin Mass BY RAYMOND ARROYOFriday, July 13, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT Reform of the liturgy has been a central concern for Pope Benedict for decades. Disgusted by some of the liturgical experimentation he witnessed in the past few decades, the pope suggested in a letter to the bishops (issued along with the decree) that these "arbitrary deformations of the liturgy" provoked his actions.... *snip* By placing the two Masses in close proximity, the pope is hoping that the new Mass will take on the sensibilities of the old. The pope is...

A documentary on the pilgrimage to Rome by traditional Catholics (FSSP included) for the 10th anniversary of the Motu Proprio Ecclesia Dei in 1998 is on EWTN right now.

                Specials schedule is subject to change without notice. THE WORLD OVER LIVE SPECIAL: ANALYSIS OF MOTU PROPIO: SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM Host Raymond Arroyo will discuss the newly- released papal document by Pope Benedict XVI widening use of the 1962 Roman Missal. Guest include: Most Rev. Fabian Bruskewitz, Bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska Monsignor James Moroney, Executive Director of the USCCB Secretariat for the Liturgy Fr. Kenneth Baker, SJ, Editor of Homiletic & Pastoral Review Most Rev. Thomas G. Doran, Bishop of Rockford, Illinois Fr. George Gabet, FSSP, North American District Superior of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter July 9, ...

A Roman Catholic cable television network is airing a program on Monday intended to "set Christians across America on fire to peacefully work to end abortion." The 30-minute program, called Being Human, focuses on ordinary people who are fighting abortion in their communities through prayer and activism, the Eternal Word Television Network said. EWTN is a global Catholic network that airs family and religious programming from a Catholic point of view in English and Spanish. The show, presented by the Coalition for Life, premieres on Monday at 6:30 p.m. EDT. It will air in 128 million homes in 140 countries...

Congratulations ... to Thomas Nash, author of Worthy Is The Lamb: The Biblical Roots of the Mass, who has accepted a position with EWTN after working for several years for Catholics United for the Faith (CUF). He writes: I am very happy to report that I have accepted the position of Theology Advisor at the Eternal World Television Network (EWTN)--www.etwn.com. EWTN, which is based just outside of Birmingham, Alabama, has had a profound, worldwide impact in advancing the mission of Jesus Christ and His Catholic Church, and I look forward to being part of the EWTN team.  I begin working...

Lent is the season of conversion of heart. At Easter, new catechumens are welcomed into the Catholic Church. Throughout Lent this year, I will be posting the conversion stories of some well known individuals and their journey home to Rome. Marcus Grodi - Marcus Grodi (1958?-     ): apologist, president of The Coming Home Network, and host of EWTN's "Journey Home" program; originally a Presbyterian pastor. I am a former Protestant minister. Like so many others who have trodden the path that leads to Rome by way of that country known as Protestantism, I never imagined I would one day convert...

Many Protestants today realize that Catholics adhere to two of the important "solas" related to salvation sola gratia (by grace alone) and solo Christo (by Christ alone) but fewer are aware that Catholics can also accept the formula of justification sola fide (by faith alone), provided this phrase is properly understood. The term pistis is used in the Bible in a number of different senses, ranging from intellectual belief (Romans 14:22, 23, James 2:19), to assurance (Acts 17:31), and even to trustworthiness or reliability (Romans 3:3, Titus 2:10). Of key importance is Galatians 5:6, which refers to faith working...

SPECIAL PROGRAMMING PAPAL VISIT TO TURKEY ~ ARRIVAL IN ANKARA AND VISIT TO THE MAUSOLEUM OF ATATURK (90:00) Tuesday November 28, 2006 6:00 AM Eastern Time Tuesday November 28, 2006 3:00 AM Pacific Time   SPECIAL PRORGAMMING PAPAL VISIT TO TURKEY - MEETING WITH PRESIDENT OF RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS (60:00) Tuesday November 28, 2006 9:30 AM Eastern Time Tuesday November 28, 2006 6:30 AM Pacific Time   SPECIAL PROGRAMMING SISTER MARIE DE MANDAT-GRANCEY: A TRUE DAUGHTER OF CHARITY, FOUNDRESS OF MARY’S HOUSE (30:00) Tuesday November 28, 2006 10:30 AM Eastern Time Tuesday November 28, 2006 7:30 AM Pacific Time   SPECIAL PROGRAMMING PAPAL...

Istanbul, Turkey - EWTN Global Catholic Network, has announced that it will broadcast LIVE worldwide from the Ecumenical Patriarchate as Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, spiritual leader of Orthodox Christians worldwide, will receive His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI in Istanbul, Turkey.On Nov. 29, at 4:30 AM (ET), EWTN will broadcast LIVE from the Patriarchal Cathedral of St. George, the Doxology of Thanksgiving, exchange of greetings and mutual reverence of the Holy Relics upon the occasion of the arrival of Pope Benedict XVI to the Ecumenical Patriarchate. The program will repeat at 9 PM (ET). On Nov. 30, beginning at 2:00 AM (ET)...

MUNICH, Germany - Greeted by a thunderous chorus of church bells, Pope Benedict XVI began a pilgrimage to his native Bavaria on Saturday, a six-day visit laden with meaning for him and the future of his increasingly liberal Roman Catholic flock in Germany. ADVERTISEMENT Tens of thousands poured into the narrow streets in this city where he served as priest and archbishop more than a quarter-century ago, before moving to the Vatican as the church's doctrinal watchdog. "My heart beats Bavarian," he assured reporters on his plane from Rome. Benedict, 79, was welcomed by German President Horst Koehler and Chancellor...

Aug. 14 (CWNews.com) - More than 5,000 people attended a weekend celebration in Birmingham, Alabama on August 12-13 as the Eternal Word TV Network (EWTN) marked its 25th anniversary. Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, the president of the Pontifical Council for the Family, celebrated a Mass of thanksgiving on Sunday, and familiar hosts from the EWTN broadcast line-up hosted sessions in a Birmingham convention center, during the celebration. But the most famous figure associated with EWTN-- the founder, Mother Angelica-- was missing because of ill health. Mother Angelica, who founded the broadcast giant in 1981 and won over millions of viewers...

Fr. Jan Larson of the Archdiocese of Seattle shows you how, in a tidy 766 words. I was recently watching a part of the daily televised liturgy on EWTN (Eternal Word Television Network). You know--them. No doubt Father had a snifter of vermouth handy and had already taken the precaution of slathering himself with a topical cream to pre-empt the hives.The liturgy there is an odd mix of English and Latin, while following the texts of the current Roman Missal. And so Fr. Larson begins his anthropological examination of this strange relict population ("odd mix", whatever that is). The difference...

http://www.dioceseofspokane.org/Communications/IR_2006/ir070606/larson070606.htm (This article is from the news magazine of the diocese of Spokane which is the home of Bishop Skylstad, the president of the USCCB, and is also one of the bankrupt dioceses.) Liturgy Reflections: Mysterious liturgy by Father Jan Larson (From the July 6, 2006 edition of the Inland Register) I was recently watching a part of the daily televised liturgy on EWTN (Eternal Word Television Network). The liturgy there is an odd mix of English and Latin, while following the texts of the current Roman Missal. The priest and ministers of the liturgy look way too somber and...

I read on another forum that for today's Mass on EWTN, they offered an Eastern-Rite Divine Liturgy. It was either Syro-Malabar or Syro-Malankara Rite.

Give yourself this interactive test, which is not an advanced examination, but very basic one. Any child preparing for Confirmation should be able to earn a grade of 80% on this. Take the exam honestly, without looking up the answers, then take appropriate steps to advance your faith. You should be able to answer these questions easily and without reference or a book. A minimum grade of 80% would indicate that you are on the right track, but not there yet. 100% is what excellence is all about. Make a commitment to learn your faith! Live what you have learned...

  FAUSTINA (90:00) Feature film drama depicting the life of Sr. Faustina. Polish with English subtitles.Saturday April 22, 2006 8:00 PM Sunday April 23, 2006 2:00 AM Thursday April 27, 2006 1:00 PM           DIVINE MERCY PREVIEW SHOW (60:00) Sunday April 23, 2006 12:00 PM LIVE Sunday April 23, 2006 8:00 PM ENCORESOLEMN MASS AND CELEBRATION OF DIVINE MERCY FROM STOCKBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, U.S.A.  (2 1/2 hours) Celebrate the Feast of Divine Mercy with EWTN and the Marians of the Immaculate Conception. This feast commemorates God's infinite love and mercy, which He continues to pour out...

Vatican City, Apr. 04, 2006 (CNA) - The Holy See has released its schedule for the celebration of Holy Week and the Easter Triduum this year in the Vatican. Officials announced that Pope Benedict himself will preside at the solemn events which mark the holiest days on the Church calendar. The Office of Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff said in a statement today that the Church’s Holy Week celebrations will begin April 9th--Palm Sunday--with the traditional blessing of palms and olive branches. Following a procession, Pope Benedict will preside at the Mass of the Lord’s Passion. On Holy Thursday...

IRONDALE, AL, April 3, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Two days ago, LifeSiteNews was forwarded a firestorm of emails from faithful Catholics in Canada regarding the world's largest Catholic media network - Eternal Word Television Network - not airing programs on homosexuality in Canada and Europe. The emails referred to an exchange between a Canadian viewer of the network and a producer at the network. In response to questioning about a show on homosexuality not being aired in Canada, as was scheduled and aired in the United States, Amalia C. Zea, the producer of the popular program Life on the Rock responded,...

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I have great respect and admiration for Mother Angelica, the founder of EWTN. In fact, call me a fan. She’s been faithful, smart, blunt, inspirational, and downright funny at times. Catholic journalist and EWTN news director Raymond Arroyo’s 384-page biography of the hugely influential cloistered nun -- Mother Angelica: The Remarkable Story of a Nun, Her Nerve, and a Network of Miracles -- does a great job of illustrating her many trials and travails, from childhood up to the present.  (She has suffered from a series of debilitating strokes in the last few years.) Two of my favorite excerpts: World Youth...

A new book by Catholic attorney Christopher A. Ferrara, titled EWTN: A Network Gone Wrong, levels heavy criticism at the Eternal Word Television Network, the global Catholic television network founded by Mother Angelica. Ferrara is among a group of Catholic traditionalists who believe EWTN has become modernist. In the words of Ferrara (from an interview in Catholic Family News): The constant reports and complaints I had heard, and verified by my own viewing and other research, concerning EWTN's content, which especially since the departure of Mother Angelica, has become in many respects utterly modernist by every objective historical standard of...

What Went Wrong at EWTN? Hoping to avoid a takeover by the American bishops, Mother Angelica resigned from the board of directors of the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) in March of 2000. She relinquished all control over the network she had founded in 1981. With the departure of that feisty and combative nun, EWTN underwent a change for the worse. This sure-to-be-controversial book contends that since the departure of its foundress, EWTN has been purveying to millions of Catholics a strange brew of the orthodox and the heterodox, the sacred and the profane. The anti-liberal Popes before the Second...

Growing up as a Jehovah’s Witness we knew what it meant to be called into the back room by the elders of the congregation. It meant we had done something wrong and the elders were going to let us know about it. In many respects it mattered not if the accusations were true or not. What mattered was that there were accusations made against us and that this reflected poorly on the Jehovah’s Witness organization. The Organization of the Back Room In fact, Jehovah’s Witnesses are encouraged to spy on one another and to report inappropriate behavior to the...

     The Abundant Life TV Wants Your Participation I’m getting ready to go to EWTN to produce 10 more exciting shows in The Abundant Life series, and I want to invite you to participate in one of them. You may know that Dr. Kathleen Raviele is a regular guest on both our TV and Radio programs. We have invited her back to EWTN this time to do an Ask the Doctor program, and here’s where you come in. I need your questions for the show. If you’ve ever had a question for one of the best Catholic, Pro-Life,...

TRANSFERAL OF THE REMAINS OF SISTER LUCIA TO FATIMA LIVE (7 ½ HOURS) Viewing of the Casket of Sr. Lucia in the Cathedral of CoimbraSunday February 19, 2006 4:30 AM LIVE Sunday February 19, 2006 12:30 PM ENCORE Mass in the CathedralSunday February 19, 2006 6 AM LIVE Sunday February 19, 2006 2 PM ENCORE Monday February 20, 2006 12 AM ENCORE Departure to the Shrine of FatimaSunday February 19, 2006 7:30 AM LIVE Sunday February 19, 2006 3:30 PM ENCORE Arrival at the Shrine, Procession to the Little Chapel of ApparitionsSunday February 19, 2006 8:30 AM LIVE Sunday...

HOLY MASS AND BAPTISM OF INFANTS WITH POPE BENEDICT XVI, SISTINE CHAPEL, ROME ( 2 hours) Sunday January 8 4:00 AM LIVE Sunday January 8 9:00 PM Encore * * * * * From Wikipedia  Epiphany (Greek: ????????, "the appearance; miraculous phenomenon") is a Christian feast intended to celebrate the 'shining forth' or revelation of God to mankind in human form, in the person of Jesus. The observance had its origins in the eastern Christian churches, and included the birth of Jesus; the visit of the Magi, or Wise Men (traditionally named Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar) who arrived in Bethlehem;...

WTN GLOBAL SHOWCASE PRIESTLY FRATERNITY OF ST. PETER (60:00) A beautiful story about a new seminary in Germany dedicated to the Catholic Tradition, Christ's Vicar and the Magisterium of the Church. Saturday December 31, 2005 8:00 PM Sunday January 1, 2006 2:00 AM Thursday January 5, 2006 1:00 PM

VATICAN CITY, DEC. 23, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Some 122 TV stations from 74 countries will broadcast Benedict XVI's first Christmas Midnight Mass as Pope in St. Peter's Basilica. In addition, 111 television channels from 68 countries will broadcast his Christmas day message and blessing "urbi et orbi" (to the city of Rome and the world) which he will impart from St. Peter's Square, according to the Pontifical Council for Social Communications. Among these channels are Sri Lanka TV Corporation, Jordan Radio and Television, and the Israel Broadcasting Authority, as well as numerous national television networks of Africa.

I just finished reading Raymond Arroyo's "Mother Angelica: The Remarkable Story of a Nun, Her Nerve, and a Network of Miracles." Here's my review of the book, which I highly recommend. It makes an excellent Christmas present, for both the devout Catholic and the Catholic whose faith has been shaken as a result of the recent scandals. ----------------------------- Anyone who still believes that the Catholic Church holds women down and doesn't allow them to reach their full potential needs to read this book. Most Catholics have at least heard of Mother Angelica, the feisty cloistered nun who founded EWTN, the...

EWTN is televising a special on the Ukrainian Catholic Church ... SUNDAY - November 27 - 10pm TUESDAY - November 29 - 2pm (Encore) * * * * * During Polish and Austrian rule in western Ukraine from the 17th to the 20th centuries, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church had great authority among the Ukrainian people. Consequently, after the Soviet occupation Stalin acted quickly to abolish the Church. On 11 April 1945, Metropolitan Josyf Slipiy and the rest of the hierarchy were arrested. Most of the bishops subsequently died in captivity. After failing to force any of the bishops to...

EWTN will be re-airing Arroyo's interview with then Cardinal Ratzinger, tonight at 8pm EST. For those who are unable to watch, here is the transcript. * * * * * THE WORLD OVER: CARDINAL RATZINGER INTERVIEW Raymond Arroyo with Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger The following is a transcript of the interview by EWTN News Director Raymond Arroyo of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, which first aired on EWTN on 5 September 2003. Cardinal Ratzinger is the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, an office to which he was appointed by Pope John Paul II in 1981. Introduction Raymond: ...

Irondale, AL, Oct. 12, 2005 (CNA) - EWTN Global Catholic Network, the largest religious media house in the world, has launched free MP3 podcasts of selected programs on its Web site.EWTN president Michael Warsaw said the network is pleased to offer this new service. "Throughout our 25 year history, EWTN has always embraced new technology to carry out its mission of evangelization," he said. "This new podcasting initiative compliments our existing audio and video streaming and enables us to spread the Gospel to an even wider audience." According to a recent report, more than 22 million American adults own portable...

Rocky Mountain News   To print this page, select File then Print from your browser URL: http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/news_columnists/article/0,1299,DRMN_86_4128027,00.html Torkelson: Feisty nun's TV network celebratedOctober 3, 2005What a nun hath wrought: This weekend, Denver was the first stop in a multicity tour to celebrate the 25th anniversary of a global TV network. It was founded, improbably, by a tart-tongued, former office secretary from Ohio named Rita Rizzo. If that doesn't immediately make you think of Mother Angelica and the Eternal Word Television Network - EWTN - then you're clearly not among her millions of fans or, for that matter, among the...

On September 9, 2005, Fr. Robert J Levis of the EWTN Experts Forum and televsion program, Web of Faith, responded to a question about the Novus Ordo mass. This is his answer as it originally appeared:   Previous Question Next Question     Latin Novus OrdoQuestion from gem on 9/8/2005: Dearest Fr. Levis God Bless You! Our former Pastor stated that the Novus Ordo Mass was more historically accurate (going back further in history) than the Tridentine, what could he possibly mean by that? He also said that he once celebrated a Latin Novus Ordo, is that simply what it...

Folks, Michael Coren, writing for the Canadian National Post, has written an extraordinary review of Raymond Arroyo's Mother Angelica's bio. Here are my favorite excerpts:At heart it is fairly standard stuff. Current affairs shows with a Catholic perspective, documentaries about saints and Christian heroes, the Rosary and Mass, call-in shows and interviews with converts, scholars, writers and priests. Orthodox and faithful Roman Catholicism broadcast from a studio complex in Alabama. The extraordinary, however, within the ordinary is that EWTN came along when the Catholic Church was still being cruelly spun around by the liberalism that slid its way into the...

Rita Antoinette Rizzo could not have imagined her improbable future when, as a little girl with a Buster Brown haircut, she sat on the corner of Liberty and 11th Street in Canton, Ohio, conversing with prostitutes and gangsters. Rita Antoinette Rizzo Mother Angelica Many years later she would recall the scene: "I couldn't have been more than four or five, and my grandfather didn't want me in the [his] saloon. He gave me a small beer with a big collar on it. I had four or five pretzels, and he said, 'Go outside and sit on the curb and...

A nun in full By George Weigel Three years ago, when Raymond Arroyo told me that he was going to write the biography of Mother Angelica, the formidable foundress of EWTN, I had to admit to some skepticism. Was there enough of a story there to warrant a full-scale biography? Could an EWTN employee tell the story frankly, fairly, and without premature hagiography? This past April, in Rome, Raymond gave me a copy of the proofs of his book. Five nights of reading later, my initial skepticism had completely abated. Mother Angelica: The Remarkable Story of a Nun, Her Nerve,...

good or evil: who decides?Dr. Raymond DeSouza Who decides what is good or evil? The state? Society? The individual? Join Dr. Raymond De Souza as he teaches about the Natural Law and the Magisterium of the Catholic Church.Contact:Dr. Raymond De Souza http://saintgabriel.com.au PO Box 111 Western Australia 6058 Telephone:[61] 08 9202 1300  Back to Series List

Raymond Arroyo welcomes Peggy Noonan as his guest on tonight's program. Check with your local cable provider for station information.