Monthly Archives: February 2013

That endears me to him.  No mincing of words.  Here’s a report from LifeSite’s John Jalsevac on the talk the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith prefect gave to the Pontifical Academy for Life: ROME, February 25, 2013, (LifeSiteNews.com) … Continue reading →

Last week I was asked to write some pieces for evangelical news sources here in Canada.  Here’s one of them, an essay at Maranatha News: As Pope Benedict XVI steps down from the papacy, evangelicals have good reason to examine … Continue reading →

Dear Deborah, Today, in the old calendar, is the feast of St. Matthias. (Patrimonially speaking, in the 1662 Prayer Book tradition, as in the Byzantine, there is no provision for moving fixed feasts, so it would merely have been commemorated … Continue reading →

From Madeleine Teahan at the Catholic Herald: The Personal Ordinariate of our Lady of Walsingham will remain “a permanent feature in the life of the Church,” Fr Federico Lombardi has said. Fr Lombardi, Director of the Holy See Press Office … Continue reading →

At The Atonement blog he writes: In one form or another, the traditional Book of Common Prayer has nourished the souls of more than twenty generations of Anglicans.  It provides the template for magnificent public worship, yet it can bring the solitary … Continue reading →

  St Gregory after Mass and Te Deum in celebration of the Chair of Saint Peter and the work of Pope Benedict XVI. — with Minerva Welling Venuti and Greg Cornelson. Interesting to note that he and Fr. Carl Reid are wearing the same … Continue reading →

Fr. Carl Reid chanted the Te Deum in Latin this morning after Mass on the Solemnity of the Chair of St. Peter.  The Ostensorium displaying the Blessed Sacrament is a gift from Companions of the Cross Moderator Fr. Scott McCaig, … Continue reading →

Father Z writes: In these USA there has been established – due to the provisions in Anglicanorum coetibus approved by the Pope of Christian Unity (presently reigning) – a Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Peter! Fr. Z kudos to all those who made … Continue reading →

Note on the Solemnity of the Chair of St. Peter In his statement on February 11, 2013, our Ordinary, Msgr. Steenson, reminded us that “members of the Ordinariate are in a particular way the spiritual children of His Holiness Pope … Continue reading →

It’s been awfully quiet from Australia lately so I was most delighted to get a tip from one of my readers that this interview with Deacon Stephen Hill, who will be ordained a Catholic priest on March 1, appeared in … Continue reading →