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One of the priests at my parish — skeptical that there is much demand in our neighborhood for the 1962 mass — has taken it upon himself to keep a tally of how many people are requesting it. As I made my way down the aisle and into the vestibule at the end of our…

Here’s the Cliff Notes version, courtesy the Catholic News Service: — The current Roman Missal, published after the Second Vatican Council, continues to be the “ordinary” form for celebrations of Mass in the Latin-rite church. The 1962 missal is now considered the “extraordinary” form of the Mass. — Any priest can celebrate Mass in private…

On the other side of my diocese, they’re hoisting chianti and offering some sage thoughts on the motu proprio over at Deacon Tony’s Place. I think Tony gets it right: Here Benedict is trying to make an appeal to regain the mystery and awe once experienced in the traditional mass that was somehow lost in…

I got an email this morning from a Catholic veterans group asking if I could give them “some publicity…we’re for God, Country and Home.” They’re the New York branch of the Catholic War Veterans of the USA, and they’ve got their own website and everything. (They even have Frank Sinatra singing “New York, New York”…
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