The bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church this evening in Moscow elected Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, 62, to succeed the late Patriarch Alexi II as the head of the Russian Orthodox Church. The new Patriarch’s challenge: to deepen the Church’s influence inside Russia, and to widen its presence outside Russia Kirill will “certainly” [...]
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Mary Ann Glendon, the scholarly, profound United States Ambassador to the Holy See during the past year, resigned her post this past week to allow Barack Obama, the new US president, to choose a new US ambassador to the Vatican to his liking. Now Glendon reflects on her year in Rome in an interview with [...]
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Excommunications Lifted for Society of St Pius X Bishops By Andrew Rabel from INSIDE THE VATICAN Extraordinary news came on the afternoon of January 24, with the removal of the excommunications of four bishops from the Society of St. Pius X. In a document signed by the Prefect of the Congregation of Bishops in the Holy [...]
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Their Excellency’s, Bishops Bernard Fellay, Bernard Tissier de Mallerais, Richard Williamson and Alfonso de Galarreta Updated at the bottom of the post. Congregation of Bishops By letter of 15 December 2008 addressed to His Eminence Cardinal Dario Castrillón Hoyos, President of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, Mons. Bernard Fellay, also on behalf of the other [...]
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By NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press Writer VATICAN CITY – Puffs of smoke, speeches in Latin and multipage encyclicals have all been used by the Vatican to communicate with the faithful. Now the pope is trying to broaden his audience by joining the wannabe musicians, college pranksters and water-skiing squirrels on YouTube. In his inaugural YouTube [...]
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Update from Rorate Caeli on Friday January 23rd: http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2009/01/removal-of-excommunications-of-sspx_23.html VATICAN CITY -January 22, 2009, 7:46 AM EST (Associated Press) – Two newspapers say Pope Benedict XVI has decided to lift the excommunications of four bishops consecrated 20 years ago by the late French ultraconservative Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. Lefebvre rebelled against the Vatican’s modernizing reforms of the 1960s, [...]
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by Brian Poe Congratulations to Father Christopher Roberts for singing his 1st Sung Traditional Latin Mass at Saint Elizabeth Seton on 1/18/09. Father Robert’s continuing devotion and spiritual dedication is to honor the wishes of the Pope Benedict’s Motu Proprio. This Motu Proprio is the idea to bring back the many traditions of the Catholic [...]
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Father Richard John Neuhaus (1936 – 2009) Requiem aeternam dona ei, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat ei. Requiescat in pace. Amen. By Michael Gaynor http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/gaynor/090111
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1. Advantages of Latin in the Roman Liturgy As was mentioned above, by the fourth century, Latin had replaced Greek as the official language of the Church of Rome. Prominent among the Latin Fathers of the Church who wrote extensively and beautifully in Latin were St Ambrose (339-397), St Augustine of Hippo (354-430), [...]
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Father Christopher Roberts will offer a Traditional Latin Mass on Monday, January 12th, at 6pm, at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Catholic Church, Carmel, Indiana. All are invited to attend! Propers: First Sunday after Epiphany, Preface of the Epiphany
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