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On September 14, this Friday, the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, Pope Benedict XVI’s Motu Proprio on the Missal of 1962 will take effect. It will be an interesting day, and I’m fully confident that the world will be standing after a few more Masses according to this Missal are celebrated. Yes, everything…

Today, well-known Catholic radio host Al Kresta is in town as a stop on a “Fall Tour.”  He’ll be broadcasting his regular program live from the studios of our local Catholic radio station, WLYV, Redeemer Radio.  Michael will be in studio with Al at 4:30, talking about his two newest books, the Pocket Guides, (Confession…

Several links: Fr. Benedict Groeschel, in today’s First Things blog The unfortunate publicity and distortions to the point of calumny that have surrounded the publication of the book Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light, edited by Fr. Brian Kolodiejchuk, M.C., the postulator of her cause, have caused confusion to many and much pain to the…

Deacon Greg Kandra takes us back to Pope John Paul’s General Audience on September 12, 2001: I cannot begin this audience without expressing my profound sorrow at the terrorist attacks which yesterday brought death and destruction to America, causing thousands of victims and injuring countless people. To the President of the United States and to…

Embattled and accused Archbishop of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, Pius Ncube, has resigned: The Zimbabwean archbishop who was an outspoken critic of his government before becoming embroiled in an adultery scandal has resigned. A brief statement from the Vatican Tuesday said Pope Benedict XVI had accepted the resignation of Pius Ncube, 60, under the article of church…

Some of you might recall last year, quite a bit of blogosphere conversation about the All Saints Vigil at the Dominican House of Studies in DC. It seemed from the outside – an impression confirmed by those who attended  – to be quite beautiful. The Dominicans have put together a “how-to” for this vigil, available…

The Pope’s homily from today’s Mass in Vienna: Of course, if we listen to today’s Gospel, if we listen to what the Lord is saying to us, it frightens us: “Whoever of you does not renounce all that he has and all links with his family cannot be my disciple.” We would like to object:…

For now – I mean for now  – we’re going to ignore the whole Amazing Technicolor Vestments issue. And the Pikachu ball. (?!) And we’ll meditate on the homily. Okay? (Remember, this is Saturday’s outdoor Mass, the feast of the Nativity of Mary.) “To gaze upon Christ” is the motto of this day. For one…

One of the Pope’s last activities today in Austria was a visit to the Heiligenkreuz Abbey – the oldest continuously active Cistercian Abbey in the world. Here’s the official site in English. (Cistercians are a reformed, more severe observance of the Benedictine Rule, originated in the 11th century at the Abbey of Cîteaux. Trappists are…

They’re paying the sex-abuse settlement out in LA. Got to sell some property. Naturally, the property that some sisters live in, serving the poor in Santa Barbara is on the list. Yeah.  As she sat this week in the convent’s simple living room, where paintings of biblical scenes and framed photographs of the order’s founders…
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