Letter #21, 2025, Tuesday, February 4: Motu Proprio, Pt 8 This letter ends my series about the liturgy. I gave a lecture almost 18 years ago, in the summer of 2007, and this is the 8th and final part. A great deal has happened since then, that I could not know at the time but [...]
In Psalm 51, King David sought God's forgiveness, in lines that were woven into the prayers of the old Mass: Psalm 51:1-19 For the director of music. A psalm of David. When the prophet Nathan came to him after David had committed adultery with Bathsheba. 1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your [...]
Letter #18, 2025, Friday, January 31: Motu Proprio: Why the Latin Mass? Why Now? Part 6 I want to again introduce this serial presentation of a lecture I gave almost 18 years ago, in the summer of 2007. On August 17, 2007, I gave a talk at a church in California, St. Cecilia Church in [...]
Letter #16, 2025, Thursday, January 30: Motu Proprio: Why the Latin Mass? Why Now? Part 5 I want to again introduce this serial presentation of a lecture I gave almost 18 years ago, in the summer of 2007. On August 17, 2007, I gave a talk at a church in California, St. Cecilia Church in [...]
Letter #14, 2025, Wednesday, January 29: Motu Proprio: Why the Latin Mass? Why Now? Part 4 I want to again introduce this serial presentation of a lecture I gave almost 18 years ago, in the summer of 2007. On August 17, 2007, I gave a talk at a church in California, St. Cecilia Church in [...]
A map of our world drawn in keeping with the geo-strategic theory of Sir Halford John Mackinder (1861-1947), a famous English geographer, academic and politician. Mackinder said: "Whoever rules Eastern Europe will rule the Heartland, whoever rules the Heartland will rule the World Island, and whoever rules the World Island will rule the world!" This thesis became known as "The Heartland Theory." [...]
Letter #10, 2025, Tuesday, January 28: Motu Proprio: Why the Latin Mass? Why Now? Part 2 Almost 18 years ago, on August 17, 2007, I gave a talk at a church in California, St. Cecilia Church in Tustin, near Los Angeles, on the decision of Pope Benedict XVI to issue on July 7, 2007, his motu [...]
Letter #8, 2025, Monday, January 27: Motu Proprio: Why the Latin Mass? Why Now? Part 1 Almost 18 years ago, on August 17, 2007, I gave a talk at a church in California, St. Cecilia Church in Tustin, near Los Angeles, on the decision of Pope Benedict XXVI to issue on July 7, 2007, his [...]
American Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, 73 (link). Burke, a canon lawyer by training, has just released his own reflection on Pope Francis's July 16 decree on the liturgy, on his own website. (link) "A schismatic spirit or actual schism are always gravely evil, but there is nothing about the UA [the old Latin rite of [...]
In this Thursday, April 1, 2021 file photo, Pope Francis celebrates a Chrism Mass inside St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican. During the Mass the Pontiff blesses a token amount of oil that will be used to administer the sacraments for the year. Pope Francis cracked down on the spread of the old Latin Mass on [...]
