Jeanie Hannaman

By Charles Coulombe, Crisis Magazine - Then, after record conversions recorded in many countries at the Holy Saturday vigil, Pope Francis died on Easter Monday; a frankly unpleasant and divisive pontificate came to an end. On May 8, Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected pope as Leo XIV. Eight days later, in White Castle, Louisiana, Nottoway, the largest antebellum plantation home in the southern United States, burned to the ground. May 20 was the 1,700th anniversary of the opening of the Council of Nicaea. Disparate as all these events are, they each have a significance that is not unrelated to the others. ...

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture - As I recently mentioned in an email to colleagues, I know that I have the liturgical sensibilities of a mouse. The Liturgy has never been, for me, something that I thought I was supposed to enjoy. When I consider the laws of the Church, I notice that one of those laws is to attend Mass on Sundays and Holy Days. Because I understand what the Mass is, I regard this as a very minimal requirement, and in fact it is extremely rare that I fail to turn up at Mass on all seven days of the week.

By Chris Jackson, Hiraeth In Exile, (Blog) - They’re coming for kneeling, for chant, for Latin, for beauty, for tradition in any form... For decades, Catholics attached to tradition were told to settle down, blend in, and be grateful for the reverent Novus Ordo. “You don’t need the old rite,” they said. “Just find a good parish with chant, Latin, incense, and ad orientem worship. That’s perfectly allowed.”... Now we see the truth: they were buying time. The wrecking ball isn’t stopping at the 1962 Missal. It’s coming for every expression of sacred continuity. ...