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Dutch seminary to offer a course on the TLM

2009-11-07T10:54:00.006Z

The website of the St. Willibrord seminary in the Tiltenberg, the Netherlands has announced that it is establishing a course for priests and seminarians on how to offer the Traditional Latin Mass. St. Willibrord's is the major seminary of the Diocese of Haarlem.The following is a translation of the announcement on the seminary website. Emphases mine. (H/t to There was a boy):On 7 July 2007, Pope

Una Voce's report upon the second anniversary of Summorum Pontificum

2009-11-05T21:04:00.005Z

The Foederatio Internationalis Una Voce recently issued a progress report on the second anniversary of Pope Benedict XVI's motu proprio Summorum Pontificum. The full report extends to 95 pages. FIUV's executive president Leo Darroch personally presented a copy of the report to the Holy Father during a meeting in Rome on Wednesday, Oct. 28. (See FIUV's website for a report on and photographs from

Traditional Anglican Communion in Britain votes for Ordinariate

2009-11-05T19:40:00.003Z

To update our readers on the Traditional Anglican Communion's progress towards conversion and integration into the Catholic Church, the weblog Signum is reporting the following:The Traditional Anglican Communion in the UK voted last Thursday (October 29th) to request that they form part of the proposed Ordinariate in the UK. During the Forward in Faith conference Archbishop Hepworth of the TAC

EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS

2009-11-03T21:24:00.003Z

Lautsi v. Italy (application no. 30814/06)CRUCIFIX IN CLASSROOMS:CONTRARY TO PARENTS’ RIGHT TO EDUCATE THEIR CHILDREN IN LINE WITH THEIR CONVICTIONS AND TO CHILDREN’S RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF RELIGIONViolation of Article 2 of Protocol No. 1 (right to education)examined jointly with Article 9 (freedom of thought, conscience and religion) of the European Convention on Human RightsUnder Article 41 (just

The death of a friend of God

2009-11-02T01:22:00.000Z

Nolite mirari, hoc, quia venit hora, in qua omnes, grave qui in monumentis sunt, audient vocem Filii Dei: et procedent, qui bona fecerunt, in resurrectionem vitæ; qui vero mala egerunt, in resurrectionem judicii. (From the Gospel for the first Mass for the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed, John v, 28-29: "Wonder not at this, for the hour cometh wherein all that are in the shall hear the

A lay martyr for the true Massreminds us of the power of the true Priesthood

2009-11-01T00:02:00.007Z

"You may make the hearing of a blessed Mass treason, or the saying of an Ave Maria treason . . . but I have committed no treason, although, indeed, I suffer the punishment due to treason."Blessed John Bodey, on the day of his martyrdom (Andover, Hampshire, November 2, 1583)________________________________________[C]onsidering that this matter, although already decided, had been by certain persons

2009-10-31T11:09:00.004Z

CLARIFICATIONBY THE DIRECTOR OF THE HOLY SEE PRESS OFFICE,FR. FEDERICO LOMBARDI, S.I.,ON SPECULATIONS ABOUT THE CELIBACY ISSUEIN THE ANNOUNCED APOSTOLIC CONSTITUTIONREGARDING PERSONAL ORDINARIATESFOR ANGLICAN ENTERING INTO FULL COMMUNIONWITH THE CATHOLIC CHURCHThere has been widespread speculation, based on supposedly knowledgeable remarks by an Italian correspondent, Andrea Tornielli, that the

Vigil of All Saints: 70 years ago

2009-10-31T00:36:00.003Z

Father Leon Nowakowski graduated from the Theological Seminary in Wloclawek, and was ordained to the priesthood on June 20, 1937. He continued his theological studies in Lublin and at the Pontifical Gregorian University. At the outbreak of World War II, Father Nowakowski was spending his summer vacation in his native Byton, Poland. After the invading Germans arrested the local Parish Priest,

No reunion yet

2009-10-30T10:15:00.016Z

In recent days there has been much talk about the "impending reunion" of the Orthodox with Rome (especially of the Bulgarians, who don't even want to continue the dialogue with Rome). While I am certain that all true Catholics desire to see the return of the Orthodox to unity with Rome -- a unity that above all should be a unity of faith -- I have to ask if people realize that such misleading

St. Lawrence Press Ordo Recitandi 2010

2009-10-30T03:48:00.011Z