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April 16, 2021

On banning the Tridentine liturgy, and selling the Edsel, By Phil Lawler

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - We’ve been hearing the claims for years now: “The Tridentine rite is unattractive.” “Young people are turned off by the old Latin Mass.” “Nobody wants it.”.. Gee, is that why liberal Catholics are so anxious to ban the old rite?... Try this: Drop in on a local car dealer’s showroom, and ask the boss whether he’d like Congress to outlaw sales of the Edsel. He’ll laugh, of course.
April 15, 2021

Fr. Raymond J. de Souza: Cardinal Pell’s Aquittal, One Year Later

By Father Raymond J. de Souza, EWTN News - In the intervening year, there have been four major developments in Cardinal Pell’s story... The most significant is the publication of the first volume of Prison Journal, the daily diary that Cardinal Pell wrote while incarcerated. With a spirit remarkably free of bitterness or self-pity, the cardinal recalls how his world shrank to his cell, “seven to eight metres long, more than two meters wide on the side of the opaque window.”
April 13, 2021

After Disrupting Liturgy in London, Police Express Empty ‘Regret’ but Make No Promises, by Phil Lawler

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - On Good Friday, police told the Catholics praying at Christ the King that they were participating in an “unlawful assembly.” No charges were filed, no fines were assessed. Since the congregation complied with the orders to go home, no one was punished... But wait: Were any police officers punished or reprimanded for this gross violation of religious freedom? Did Church officials file complaints? Evidently not.
April 12, 2021

Fr. Mario Alexis Portella: The Vatican Remains Silent on the Persecution of Chinese Christians

By  Fr. Mario Alexis Portella, Crisis Magazine - ...during his solemn Urbi et Orbi Easter blessing on Easter Sunday, Francis snubbed the Uighurs as he carefully omitted any reference to those suffering human rights abuses under China’s Communist regime when he named an array of countries, such as Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Nigeria, and Tigray where people are plagued by violence and conflict... All things being equal, there is one group whose suffering the Argentinian pope has yet to acknowledge—the Chinese Christians, whose plight is getting worse by the day.

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