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How does the Latin Mass work? Do women wear head coverings? thank you

Update #2 From the Board of Directors 02 January 2005: Dear Parishoners: Initially, on behalf of Andy and Bob, I want to sincerely wish you a wonderful, spiritually prosperous and healthy 2005! As for our Saint Anthony's Parish, the word...tremendous...best comes to describing the "State of the Parish". With the start of the year, we believe it is important to keep you "in the mix" of the current developments relative to the "secessionists" and their attempt to thwart Father Wickens Will and institute their own agenda on you, his faithful flock of Saint Anthony's. They have started litigation against us....

In West Orange, a church divided Founder's death leaves traditional congregation in dispute over successor At the church founded by the late Rev. Paul Wickens, Mass is always said in Latin. Women still cover their heads, and people receive the host in their mouths from a priest, never touching it with their own hands. To say that St. Anthony of Padua, the church Wickens started nine years ago, is a haven for traditionalists is an understatement. And with his death this year, the search for just the right successor to the old founder has split the parishioners of this unusual...

Reviewer: jim.moriarty@xxxxxxxxx Sylvania, Ohio United States) This confirms what I thought was going on in the Novus Ordo Church. These priests see the Liberal-Modernist overtones of the New Mass and reject it. They literally go through HELL to get back to the sacrificing priest concept who offers up Jesus Christ for our sins, like in the Old Testament, not a Good Time "Happy Meal" as the Novus Ordo has it. I didn't want to put it down. These men are REAL HEROES, bucking the Catholic establishment, giving up EVERYTHING, (pension, medical insurance, housing, etc.) for their beliefs. Some are even...