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Cardinal Brandmueller is coming out with a new book on Church history. In this interview with Zenit , he had several interesting comments th...

As reported by Boniface at Unam Sanctam , Cardinal Kaspar basically let fly to the public one of the worst kept secrets in the world. The do...

As Rorate has already provided a full report on this topic, I'm just going to comment. Basically, the Pope addressed the Roman clergy a...

What most folks don't realize is that, while Blessed John XXIII did formally open the Council on October 11, 1962, the initial working...

One of the things we were going to use as a capstone for our discussion of Sacrosanctum Concilium was to compare what we know as the Pauline...

In our last entry , we closed with a comment about concelebration, and how manufacturing a new rite for concelebration in the West appeared ...

We've mentioned before how Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani, the head of the Holy Office during Vatican II, was singled out as the dissenters...

At the Last Supper, on the night when He was betrayed, our Saviour instituted the eucharistic sacrifice of His Body and Blood. He did this i...

This is from Rorate and is worth checking out. It's basically about how most of the bishops at Vatican II weren't in either theolog...

Rorate seems to be getting into the act by recounting some of the Council's historical highlights. Naturally, we welcome the contributi...

Even in the liturgy, the Church has no wish to impose a rigid uniformity in matters which do not implicate the faith or the good of the whol...

When we last left the Constitution on the Liturgy (which, yes, was a while back), we had just gotten to the bit about how Latin was to be p...

Bear with me on this. Despite the weird title of this post, I will work everything in. A lot of you have probably heard by now that DC Comic...

Since I've been on a bit of a Jesuit kick lately, let me go ahead and do a post that I've been meaning to do for a while now. Let...

The New Liturgical Movement has a review of the book The Development of the Liturgical Reform: As Seen by Cardinal Ferdinando Antonelli fro...

We've spoken a bit about the non-Catholic "observers" who were invited to the Council. As you read through the ongoing (really...

Continuing on with the Constitution on the Liturgy: Although the sacred liturgy is above all things the worship of the divine Majesty, it li...