Pope Benedict XVI’s Apostolic Letter, Summorum Pontificum, promulgated Motu Proprio, is an event equal in significance to Pope St Pius V’s Bull, Quo primum, of 1570, and the Second Vatican Council’s Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium (1963)....
[box type="info"] This paper was presented not long before the time when – belatedly, and after at least a generation of neglect – the Bishops of NSW and the ACT issued their pastoral letter Catholic Schools at the Crossroads (8 August 2007). Much of what the author...
... I also repeat what the priest says just after receiving the Sacred Host at this Mass: “Quid retribuam Domino pro omnibus quae retribuit mihi? — What shall I render to the Lord for all the things that He hath rendered to me?” (Ps 115:12), I think also of what St...
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