May 13, 2011
by Michael Brendan Dougherty
The long-awaited (and occasionally feared) Instruction on Summorum Pontificum was published earlier today, addressing some of the questions that the ultra-slow motion return of the Traditional Latin Mass has occasioned. So what do we learn? First, the good: Bishops can't stymie a Latin Mass group just because their visiting priest doesn't have the Latin [...]
April 28, 2010
by John Zmirak
Like many tradition-loving Catholics, I feel terrible for Darío Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos -- now the second-most hated cardinal in the Church, after Bernard Cardinal Law. As John Allen observed, Cardinal Castrillón once "was widely considered a serious contender to become the first Latin American pope." Today, he "has achieved global infamy in light of a [...]
November 6, 2007
by Thomas E. Woods Jr.
When the secular media suddenly start talking about Catholic liturgy, something is afoot in the life of the Church. By the second year of Pope Benedict XVI's pontificate, that's exactly what happened. The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, U.S. News and World Report -- the subject was everywhere. The [...]