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Yesterday I wrote about Dame Vera Lynn and my conviction that the times they are a-changing in Rome and that in the pontificate of Benedict XVI anything is possible. Well, now it seems that those "Lights" about which she sang just might be about to come on again ! Cardinal Medina Estevez  offering the Traditional Mass just last November 6 in Rome Yesterday I wrote about Dame Vera Lynn and my conviction that the times they are a-changing in Rome and that in the pontificate of Benedict XVI anything is possible. Well, now it seems that those "Lights" about...

From his friends in Milano Don Capisco hears that in August 2005 a document was prepared in the Roman Curia aimed at preventing a more widespread use of the "old" Roman Missal. The text is said to have been prepared last August by the Congregation for Divine Worship, and to bear the signatures of the Cardinal Prefect Francis Arinze and his right hand man, Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino, according to a report published at the end of October in the respected Milanese newspaper "Il Giornale," which belongs to the Berlusconi group and seldom hesitates at reporting Catholic topics. The report stresses...

Bishop Fellay’s Interview with The Latin Mass Summary : Someone in the Vatican has referred to Bishop Fellay and his brothers within the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) as “fossils.” Yet, to meet this young bishop, there is nothing about him that seems fossilized. He sits before a small computer reading through research reports, studying data and statistics, and receiving and sending e-mail. Not bad for a fossil! Bishop Bernard Fellay, the Superior General of the SSPX, was born April 12, 1958 in Switzerland. He was ordained a priest in 1982. He was consecrated a bishop by Archbishop Marcel...