The recent Address of His Holiness Benedict XVI on the Occasion of Christmas Greetings to the Roman Curia (December 20, 2010) contained som...

As noted in Fr. Z's blog (December 30, 2010), the Supreme Pontiff’s Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum is still provided only in Latin a...

Still Life with Fish by Edouard Manet By Michael P. Foley One of the most recognizable markers of Catholic identity used to be the practice...

Fr. Zuhlsdorff, of all people, posted the following today: Even if Admiral Yamamoto didn’t actually say this, it is nevertheless true. Se ...

Soeren Kern, " The Spanish Ham Lawsuit and Other Muslim Problems Hitting Iberia " (Hudson New York, December 23, 2010). And Spanis...

Christopher Blosser, " Pope Benedict, Fr. Rhonheimer, Janet Smith and Stephen Long -- the 'Condom Conundrum' Continues " (...

Tridentine Community News (December 26, 2010): Another year has rushed by, and it is appropriate to reflect on the significant events that ...

Courtesy of The Deacon's Bench . [Hat tip to C.B.]

I remember thinking about this question back when I was in graduate school and not yet a Catholic. I had heard hour-long sermons that seemed...

And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest and on earth p...

We announced on Dec. 14 that our own Joe Tuskiewicz, formerly of Sacred Heart Major Seminary, was installed to the Ministry of Acolyte at Bl...

Abraham Lincoln reputedly once asked "If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have?" Just moments ago, legislation was...

As Rorate Caeli reports , our good friend, Archbishop Joseph Augustine DiNoia, O.P, will be celebrating a Pontifical Solemn High Mass in the...

Damian Thompson, " Benedict XVI has put the Church's penance for sex abuse at the heart of his pontificate " (The Telagraph, D...

Tridentine Community News (December 19, 2010): A few years ago, this writer attended a symposium at which Francis Cardinal Arinze spoke abo...