Jeanie Hannaman

By Hannah Hiester, LifeNews - Kansas Catholics and a Catholic national organization are fighting to stop a satanic “black mass” scheduled for March 28 at the Kansas State Capitol in Topeka... The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property (TFP) is leading the initiative to protest the sacrilege. It started a nationwide petition drive and has coordinated a public “rally of reparation” outside the Capitol, where Catholics can pray and offer atonement at the same time as the so-called “black mass.”

By John M. Grondelski, Crisis Magazine - According to the message, the nominal reason for the course is to respond to Francis’ “invitation formulated in the Apostolic Letter Desiderio desideravi, continuing to study the liturgy, not only from a theological perspective, but also in the area of celebratory praxis.”... “Celebratory praxis” in the Francis pontificate seems primarily to mean not celebrating the liturgy in ways in which this pope disapproves—for example, in Latin, especially in the usus antiquior. Beyond that, the term is elastic enough to cover justifying rules against what particular people imagine constitute retrenchment on the supposed “vision” of Vatican II, e.g., wanting to kneel to receive Communion and/or to do so at an altar rail.