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The New Evangelisation and the Old Mass
by Lyle Dunne
[The 1960s generation] dismantled a high Catholic culture by removing its cornerstone and they left subsequent generations of Catholics in a state of cultural poverty, confusion and boredom.
– Professor Tracy Rowland
This is not a review, but an article promoting of an important book I haven’t read yet. That may seem rash, but read on and you’ll see my point.
Sacred Liturgy: The Source and Summit of the Life and Mission of the Church, edited by Dom Alcuin Reid, is the proceedings of the Summer School Sacra Liturgica 2013, published in English by Ignatius Press.
The Franciscan Pontificate and the Half-Full Glass
By Lyle Dunne
The first non-European Pope was elected to do one thing: reform the Roman Curia, the pitifully disorganised, corrupt and lazy central machinery of the church – Damian Thompson, The Spectator.
As far as the present pontificate is concerned, I’ve been a bit of a semicaliplenitudinarian. No, it’s not from Mary Poppins, but don’t bother looking it up, I just invented it: someone who thinks the glass is always half full.
Spoken Latin: A modern remedy for the nation’s age-old reading problems?
By Frances Stead Sellers | Washington Post | August 8, 2014
Once you view Latin as the key to understanding both English and the history of Western civilization, as Jan McGlennon, who teaches at Wilson High in the District, puts it, you begin to think we should all speak Latin all the time.
No Flipping Ribbons
The Roman Breviary: in English, in Order, Every Day (Kindle edition), July-August 2014 compiled by the Very Reverend Gregory Bellarmine SSJC, Christian Books Today, $3.70.
Reviewed by MC.
…we all live the Mass through this odd technology of a printed codex. We are all Gutenberg’s children.
Sign of Peace…or Discord?
By Tony Pead.
The false notion of ‘active participation’ has become deeply embedded in the psyche of many good Catholics who could not be described as liberal dissenters from Catholic doctrine, but who have, nevertheless, accepted the ‘post-conciliar liturgical settlement’.
Pax at a Mass in Holywell, Wales, July 6, 2014. Credit: Joseph Shaw via Flickr via CNA. Instructive that a Pax from an EF Mass is shown.
