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Via the DC Dominicans – great stuff. From a National Catholic Register article: This Halloween, rather than attending a liquor-laden Halloween party or taking part in some bar’s costume contest, young professionals will jam into a dark-wood English Gothic chapel at the Dominican House of Studies to hear readings from the lives of the saints…

At Beliefnet, via Catholic Parent, from our favorite Dominican historian teaching at UVA, Fr. Augustinte Thompson, O.P. We’ve all heard the allegations: Halloween is a pagan rite dating back to some pre-Christian festival among the Celtic Druids that escaped church suppression. Even today modern pagans and witches continue to celebrate this ancient festival. If you…

Canonist Ed Peters weighs in: LifeSiteNews is reporting that the Canadian priest Raymond Gravel, notorious for his voiciferous disagreement with Church teaching on just about every major social issue, has obtained permission from his bishop to run for national governmental office. This claim, however, seems impossible to reconcile with sound canon law. Under the 1983…

I’ve become quite fond of the BBC3’s Early Music Show – broadcast on Saturdays and Sundays, each broadcast being available for a week after the initial play. Early Music (medieval, Renaissance and Baroque) has always been my preferred period of classical music. Always. Definitely once we finish with Beethoven, I lose interest until the 20th…

Bishop Wenski writes to the Secretary of State: The chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on International Policy has asked Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to consider measures that would help improve the deteriorating situation for Christians and other religious minorities in Iraq. In a letter to Secretary Rice, Bishop Thomas…

Some resources: Catholic Mom The origins of Halloween and All Saints Various articles from the American Catholic Website

This is a big deal. Jeffrey Tucker of The New Liturgical Movement writes: Given all the controversy over music these days, people are often surprised to find out that the Roman Rite has an official songbook that grew up alongside the Mass. If the Lectionary is for readers, the Sacramentary is for the celebrant, the…

As reported in the Italian press earlier, the Pope has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos as Prefect as the Congregation for Clergy and named in his place Cardinal Cláudio Hummes, O.F.M of Sao Paolo. The resignation, in accord with the age limit, of Auxiliary Robert A. Brucato of New York was accepted. No…

The Washington Post goes to Omaha to look at the NaPro Technology Center Inspired by Pope Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical, Humanae Vitae, which condemned artificial birth control, Hilgers began by helping to develop, with colleagues at nearby Creighton University, a natural family planning method called the Creighton Model, which involves meticulously charting a woman’s monthly…

You feel it, too, don’t you? There have been so many little hints and small incidents coming to light of late – all related to liturgy. I’m not prepared to make sense of it, particularly since hardly any of what we’re hearing is official yet. An indult freeing the Tridentine/Pian/Classical Roman Rite/Mass? No more indult…
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