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American Mass Attendance Before and After “the Council.”Photo credit above: Dr. Peter Kwasniewski.A new CARA study quoting Gallup polls has recently published statistics on current American Catholicism as seen above. We have all known for awhile that there were more ex-Catholics than Catholics in the USA, but the spread is enormous in the above numbers that just came out in 2022. In one graphic from CARA (above chart) see especially that there’s almost 113 million US Catholics baptized but only about 53 million of them even attempt to attend yearly Mass at Christmas and Easter.Another study (above) came out a...

[Catholic Caucus] The “Latin Novus Ordo” Is Not the SolutionIn the wake of Traditionis Custodes, some have made the good-faith suggestion that a “solution” for a future depleted of traditional Latin Masses is “doing the Novus Ordo in Latin.”This is an absolute non-starter for several reasons.First, the missals are notably different. All you have to do is compare them to see that the Order of Mass and the Propers of the Mass are largely divergent. The classic article here is Matthew Hazell’s, demonstrating that only 13% of the orations of the old missal are found intact in the new one...

[Catholic Caucus] The Mass That Was Never Forbidden: Key Dates in the Old Missal’s Rehabilitation The Mass Was Never ForbiddenPaix Liturgique NewsletterLetter 122 (9 February 2022)The following presentation follows Abbé Claude Barthe’s book, La messe de Vatican II. Dossier historique (Via Romana, 2018).1978: John Paul II receives Archbp. LefebvreThe election of John Paul II in 1978 marked a turning point in an attempt to regain control in the wake of the Council, even if it was extremely timid. On November 18, 1978, one month after his election, at the initiative of Cardinal Siri, John Paul II received Archbishop Lefebvre...

[Catholic Caucus] Francis Equates the Traditional Liturgy with “Abuse” While Continuing to Tolerate an Abusive Rite— Crucial article by French priest How Traditionis Custodies Relegates the Traditional Liturgy to an “Abuse”Abbé Jean-Marie PerrotFebruary 1, 2022Res NovaeOne of the many reasons for the annoyance provoked by the motu proprio Traditionis Custodes and the subsequent Responses to the Dubia is the symmetry they establish between the traditional liturgy on the one hand and liturgical abuses in the Novus Ordo on the other. This means, first of all, that the Vetus Ordo in itself is reduced to the very depreciated rank of...