When inculturation is wrong: “whoring after ephemeral relevance, a...
Over at Corpus Christi Watershed there is a good piece by Prof. Peter Kwasniewski of Wyoming Catholic College about inculturation. Inculturation is unavoidable. Inculturation has given us magnificent...
View ArticleWyoming Catholic College – Missae Solemnes!
There was a fine event at one of my favorite places in these USA, Wyoming Catholic College, located in the burgeoning metropolis of Lander, WY. As you may recall, WCC is the only school around where...
View ArticleSummorum Pontificum and You
At NLM there is a good entry by Peter Kwasniewski about implementing Summorum Pontificum where you are. He makes some practical points which I endorse… as one would expect since I also have made them....
View ArticleSUPER! New book with table of readings for the Novus Ordo and TLM! ACTION ITEM!
UPDATE: Originally posted 14 April. I just learned of this and I am eager to get my hands on it. It should be a helpful tool. I have often longed for an easy to use chart to line up the readings from...
View ArticlePeter Kwasniewski: Why tradition is important and reverence alone isn’t enough
Over a Rorate there is something so good that it compels me to overcome even their animosity toward me, extend an olive branch again, and direct you there to read patiently and completely. Peter...
View Article“Not all is well, nor should we pretend that it is — even if this means...
At NLM, Peter Kwasniewski has a good piece. Here’s how it begins (with my emphases and comments): Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI frequently acknowledged that the Church is in a state of...
View ArticleREVIEW – Peter Kwasniewski’s new book: Noble Beauty, Transcendent Holiness:...
I’m digging into Peter Kwasniewski’s new book: Noble Beauty, Transcendent Holiness: Why the Modern Age Needs the Mass of Ages US HERE – UK HERE It has a forward by the great Martin Mosebach, author of...
View ArticleWorship, Memory and You
This morning at NLM Peter Kwasniewski makes some points about liturgy and memory, memorization, which are quite good… so good that I have made them myself in the past. Here is a good bit: This...
View ArticleWhat Did Council Fathers REALLY Say About LATIN?
Dr. Peter Kwasniewski wrote to me the other day to alert me to his post at NLM about the Second Vatican Council and the Latin language. It is MUST READ reading. HERE A taste to get you in… The...
View ArticleA veritable banquet of rich and useful reading: @RobertSRoyal and Kwasniewski
This morning I awoke to a veritable banquet of rich and useful reading. First, I direct your attention to a post at The Catholic Thing by Robert Royal, who never disappoints. (He also writes about...
View ArticleKwasniewski instructs @MassimoFaggioli about real “rupture”
Recently Massimo “Beans” Faggioli has attempted to stir up a pingle and, with it, attention for himself, by denigrating our Catholic Tradition – nay, rather – by denigrating the people who desire our...
View ArticlePeter Kwasniewski: “Can anyone deny that there is a de facto schism in the...
St. John Paul, Pope and Prayer Warrior, with one of the most powerful weapons of spiritual warfare. ME! ME! ME! I! I! I! MINE! MINE! MINE! We are living in an age when many people think they can do...
View ArticleWe Are Our Rites! Wherein Fr. Z rants after reading Peter Kwasniewski
At NLM, PK has a good offering. (“Ho hum!”, you are saying, because I have to write that so often.) Starting with Nietzsche and his famous “God is dead”, he spins up a good argument about “modern”...
View ArticleLENTCAzT 2018 29 – Wednesday in the 4th Week of Lent: Suicidal Secularization...
Today is Wednesday in the 4th Week of Lent. The Roman Station is St. Paul’s outside the walls. In gratitude especially to benefactors who help me and this blog, during Lent I’m once again offering 5...
View ArticleLENTCAzT 2018 30 – Thursday in the 4th Week of Lent: Priests and confidence
Today is Thursday in the 4th Week of Lent. The Roman Station is Ss Silvestro e Martino ai monti. In gratitude especially to benefactors who help me and this blog, during Lent I’m once again offering...
View ArticlePODCAzT 165: Liturgical battles lost and won… and lost; don Camillo (Part X)
In today’s PODCAzT I read just a bit of a fairly recent book by Peter Kwasniewski: Noble Beauty, Transcendent Holiness: Why the Modern Age Needs the Mass of Ages US HERE – UK HERE It has a foreward by...
View ArticleADVENTCAzT 2018 09: Proper Marian Devotion
Once again this year I offer short daily podcasts to help you prepare for the upcoming feast as well as for your own, personal, meeting with the Lord. Here is ADVENTCAzT 09, for Monday of the 2nd Week...
View ArticleADVENTCAzT 2018 18: The damage liturgical ‘expertise’ has done to us!
Once again this year I offer short daily podcasts to help you prepare for the upcoming feast as well as for your own, personal, meeting with the Lord. Here is ADVENTCAzT 18, for Wednesday in the 3rd...
View ArticleASK FATHER: Why didn’t Benedict XVI say the #TLM? How can we get one? What...
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Thank you for your blog. I get so much from it! Never stop! I know you like one question at a time, but maybe you’ll do this. I heard a podcast at 1 Peter 5 with Peter...
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