After reading about Bishop Thomas Paprocki’s new funeral restrictions in the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois, I felt compelled to ask a question on X: “What is it about a certain type of Catholic who wants to strip everything human,...
In my recent article on the media coverage of the first year of Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate, I examined the letter from Cardinal Parolin to the French bishops, who met in Lourdes last week, and challenged the unlikely narrative put...
Debates over the post–Vatican II liturgical reforms often hinge less on what the Council actually mandated than on myths, misattributions, and misunderstandings. From rumors that Archbishop Annibale Bugnini was a Freemason to claims that Protestants secretly shaped the new Missal,...
Last week, Pope Leo celebrated a Holy Mass for the Care of Creation at the Laudato si’ Center at Castel Gandolfo; for those wishing to reflect upon the texts from the Mass, a Latin original from the Vatican website with...
In the book of Leviticus, we read that priests were forbidden to touch a corpse; to do so rendered a person ritually unclean (Lev 21:1–3). The priest and the Levite in this parable, who may have regarded the victim as...
I grew up in what was once a small, Protestant New England Church. The old brick building still stands on the street front with its quintessential white tower, but by the time it was my church, it had become a...
[Editor’s note: On November 22, the Mexican Episcopal Conference (CEM) released an official statement on the earlier news (and false rumors) about the pope’s approval of cultural adaptations to the Roman Rite for indigenous Catholic Communities in Mexico. Given the...
Vatican news reports that the new edition of the funeral rite for the Roman pontiff has been officially published and released, following the pope’s approval on April 29 of this year: A number of new elements for papal funerals have...
As a Discalced Carmelite, I belong to a community dedicated totally to contemplation. That means that we have no outside ministry. We do not teach or nurse except to care for the members of our own community. We do not...
Editor’s note: This is a long-form essay in five parts, all published simultaneously below. The word count is around 12,400. Part 1 The liturgical path of the Church after Vatican II Introduction The Second Vatican Council, a watershed in the...
Editor’s note: This is the fifth and final article in a series by Andrew Likoudis entitled “The Liturgical Reform – Council, Consilium, and Papacy.” Part 5 will be published tomorrow. Click here for Part 1: “The liturgical path of the Church after...
Editor’s note: This is the fourth article in a series by Andrew Likoudis entitled “The Liturgical Reform – Council, Consilium, and Papacy.” Part 5 will be published tomorrow. Click here for Part 1: “The liturgical path of the Church after...
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