Week of Ordinations in Florence & Gricigliano

On Monday, June 28, 2010, twelve first-year seminarians received their cassock from Monsignor Gilles Wach, Founder and Prior General, at the magnificent Chiesa dei Santi Michele e Gaetano in Florence. They were tonsured on June 29, Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, by the Most Reverend Athanasius Schneider, ORC, Auxiliary Bishop in Kazakhstan, in the [...]

Free Will or God’s Will?

July 15, 2010 Free Will or God’s Will by Dennis McInerny It is an act of the will to deny free will, and those who insist upon doing so deserve to be put in the same category as those who refuse to accept the fact that the earth is a sphere. As Catholics, we of [...]

Michael Voris on the Latin Mass

“In the Eucharistic celebration we do not invent something”

The Holy Mass, celebrated in the respect of the liturgical norms and with a fitting appreciation of the richness of the signs and gestures, fosters and promotes the growth of Eucharistic faith. In the Eucharistic celebration we do not invent something, but we enter into a reality that precedes us, more than that, which embraces [...]

Mary the Mother of God

On May 8th, 2010 a.D. the Saint John Bosco Latin Mass Community was proud to host Fr. Gregory Pendergraft, FSSP who conducted a practicum on “Mary the Mother of God” at Sacred Heart of Jesus Roman Catholic Church in Cicero, Indiana.  For more information on our upcoming Speaker Series please contact Una Voce Carmel’s President [...]

Promoting Worship With the Traditional Mass

 Interview With St. Peter’s Fraternity Priest Calvin Goodwin By Traci Osuna DENTON, Nebraska, JUNE 8, 2010 (Zenit.org).- Since the Second Vatican Council, Catholics have been attending Mass said in their native tongue. Today, Latin references are completely foreign to some, and lingering memories to others. But then there are those who are dedicated to keeping [...]

On Being Charitable

 by Dennis McInerny    Charity, as St. Thomas Aquinas loves to remind us, is the most basic of all the virtues their “mother,” as he puts it. And charity “is the mover of all the other virtues,” the seminal cause of whatever level of genuine goodness we might manage to gain for ourselves in this [...]

“Take Thou The Yoke Of The Lord”: John Shannon Ordained A Priest

By Monica Eichman LINCOLN, Neb.— May the blessing of God Almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, descend upon you; that you may be blessed in the Priestly Order, and may offer propitiatory sacrifices for the sins and offenses of the people to Almighty God, to Whom belongs glory and honor, world without [...]

FSSP Priestly Ordinations 2010

On the 22nd of May in the year of Our Lord 2010 at 10:00 am at the Cathedral of the Risen Christ in Lincoln Nebraska.  His Ecellency Fabian Bruskewitz, Bishop of Lincoln, will confer Priestly Ordinations  for the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter.  The following Deacons will be ordained to the Sacred Priesthood.  Rev. Mr. [...]

Habemus Episcopum

As expected, Pope Benedict has accepted the resignation of the nation’s senior active prelate, notably naming an expert in health-care issues as his successor. This morning, the pontiff tapped Msgr Timothy Doherty, 59 — a moral theologian and pastor of two parishes in Illinois’ diocese of Rockford — as bishop of Lafayette in Indiana. An [...]