Catholic Church

By Jules Gomes, Church Militant - "The latest move from Pope Francis smacks of desperation. What more can it possibly achieve to draw out this already torturous process for another twelve months?" asked Mark Lambert, co-founder of Defending the Integrity of Catholic Education... "If it is, as suggested, because not enough people took part, is the pope going to run the whole consultation part of the process again? We all knew what the purpose was and what asking a largely uncatechized Catholic population would result in — capitulation to the zeitgeist."

By Msgr. Charles Pope - A couple of weeks ago I wrote a cautionary article aimed at my traditionally-minded brethren saying, among other things, that we ought to be careful in identifying the Ordinary Form of the Mass (1970 Missal and beyond) as the “Mass of Vatican II.” I will not reproduce that whole article here. I will only recall three points: 1. The Mass was already undergoing significant changes, beginning in the 1940s and picking up speed through the 1950s. More changes were planned by the Vatican before the Second Vatican Council was called.

By  Dean Barker, The Remnant - In a previous article, I covered why traditionalists like Oscar the Trad Grouch are not being included in the Sesame Street Synod, also known as the Synod on Synodality... The non-Catholic presence is necessary, because no serious Catholic would dare set foot in a synodal meeting which seeks to mock his faith, which explains why participation has been so abysmal.

Father Raymond J. de Souza, EWTN News - Is widespread ad orientem — toward the [liturgical] east — celebration of the Holy Mass the future?... Not immediately so, but there are reasons to think that it may indeed become so over the next 10 to 20 years. The alternatives to ad orientem celebration — where the priest and people together face the same direction toward the altar — have been tried and found wanting.