More on the Benedictine-Jesuit Conundrum
The “Deputation” Argument The whole Benedictine—Jesuit controversy of the beginning of the last century is something that has long captured my attention. My own research...
Until Christ be formed in us
Mediator Dei When, in 1947, Pope Pius XII wrote the encyclical Mediator Dei, he was fully and painfully conscious of two opposing currents of thought...
The liturgy: foremost and indispensable
Blaming the Jesuits Father Blake of Brighton, with his customary candour, writes in a recent post: I blame the Jesuits and the Spirit of the...
750th Anniversary of the Institution of the Feast of Corpus Domini
In preparation for the festival of Corpus Christi, it is fitting to re–read Pope Benedict’s discourse on Saint Juliana and the origins of the feast....
The most convincing of sermons
In a Holy Fear Holy Mass celebrated worthily, reverently, and carefully is itself the most convincing of sermons. The priest who stands before the altar...
