[Carolina]

Catholic ping!

[Pyro7480]

Catholic ping!

[AnAmericanMother]

Prayers for the Holy Father and for the FSSP.

There's an FSSP parish in our archdiocese. Great people, godly priests.

[Antoninus]

Viva Il Papa!

If Benedict XVI deposed all the French bishops, would anyone notice/care? Are there any Catholics left in France?

[monkapotamus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6AOvStZS64

"Traditional Latin Mass filmed on Easter Sunday in 1941 at Our Lady of Sorrows church in Chicago. The film presents the ceremonies of the Missa Solemnis or Solemn High Mass in full detail with narration by then-Mgr. Fulton J. Sheen. Celebrated by Rev. J. R. Keane of the Order of Servites (hence the white habits and cowls), the ceremonies are accompanied by a full polyphonic choir, orchestra, and fifty Gregorian Chanters."

[ArrogantBustard]

Rumours, rumours, rumours.


I'm STILL (not really, but play along) from Missouri.


SHOW ME.

[trisham]

Viva Il Papa! I love this Pope!

[Frank Sheed]

http://www.ecclesiadei.org/video.htm

I have a VHS of this video which comes with a booklet containing the full rubrics of the Tridentine Mass. Other tapes are available from sources like the Wanderer (Una Voce) which also has a beautiful tape of the Tridentine Mass.

Frank

[livius]

a number of French bishops

I'm really glad he's doing this, but my only question is why the heck the French bishops have so much power. They have "led" a church that has almost disappeared, everything they have done has resulted in fewer and fewer Catholics, and Islam is about to take over their country. Why should anybody care what they think?

[Frank Sheed]

Just sent to me...

http://orbiscatholicus.blogspot.com/2007/01/buzz-from-rome-indult.html

Under the starry Roman sky I have some good news for everyone: the indult is here!

This is Dario Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos (born in 1929 and ordained in 1952) walking into the Vatican Basilica on New Years Eve. When asked about the indult what was his reply? "Subito."

Sonorous and majestic: it's the Tridentine Rite! Why the Tridentine Rite? The reply is simple: "Because it is our patrimony."

“…and we cannot understand the secluar history of modern Europe, unless we understand something of that long thousand-year process of change and growth which we name the Middle Ages. Those thousand years saw the making of Europe and the birth and rebirth of Western culture; they also witnessed the creation of that socio-religious unity that we call Christendom, and the gradual penetration of our culture by Christian beliefs and Christian moral ad intellectual standards. They have left an indelible imprint on both our social and religious life. They have helped to make us what we are, whether for good or for evil, and even those who know and care nothing about mediaeval religion and culture, are themselves the unconscious heirs of mediaeval traditions."

[annalex]

Can anyone explain what does "private mass publicly celebrated" mean?

[Jaded]

I love il Papa! May God keep Benedict safe from his enemies and on the straight path to His Everlasting Truth.

[NYer]

"It is said that the mild but persuasive words of Pope Benedict, who personally spoke by telephone to many of the most intransigent enemies of tradition among the bishops of France, worked a sort of miracle, and brought them to a reluctant but decisive change of view, or at least to a recognition of the limits of disobedience,"

[Macoraba]

HIP HIP HURRAH FOR THE HOLY FATHER!!!

[Diva]

Commentators say priests will be allowed to celebrate the Tridentine Rite without permission at "private Masses" that would be nevertheless be open to the public

Does anyone know what this means exactly?

[mware]

Sure wish he would pick up the phone and set our Bishops right on the abortion issue and politicians who support it and claim to be Catholic.