Jeanie Hannaman

By Salvatore J. Cordileone, First Things - We seemed at one point in the recent past to have come to a peaceful coexistence with what Pope Benedict referred to as the two forms of the Roman Rite, after he issued his motu proprio Summorum Pontificum. However, after Traditionis Custodes and then the even more severe restrictions from the Dicastery for Divine Worship on the celebration of the Roman Rite according to the 1962 Missal, the liturgy wars have been revived. While liturgy was not a focus of the cardinals in the conclave that elected Pope Francis after the resignation of Pope Benedict, it will undoubtedly be a central focus in this upcoming one.

By Ashley McGuire, National Catholic Register - Clarity is an essential role of the papacy, and when dimmed, it puts the Church and souls in danger... The Catholic Church — the role of the papacy in particular — first caught my attention when I was a semi-lapsed Protestant attending a quintessentially secular, Marxist-leaning university in Boston. Reading The New York Times in the dining hall, I stopped at the story about Pope Benedict’s so-called “Regensburg Address.” ...