Popin' Ain't Easy

Rorate has the story. Sad. I don't think anyone would be surprised if he went full-bore sede at this point. If you're at all fami...

If you want to know where the talks are, you can check out Rorate and the interview with Fr. Pfluger. In a nutshell, things are back to ...

The Telegraph has the latest story, which we had initially discussed here back in February. Nothing too surprising. Just another element o...

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

No, we aren't going to talk about Vatican II. We'll talk about the opening of the Council on the day the Council really opened. Th...

Picking up where we left off, we continue with the specific things that are actually brought up for revision by the liturgical constitution....

Something for us all to remember, courtesy of Rorate : Prayer of a Parishioner  Thank you, Lord, for the shortcomings of our Priests! If...

So the Pope's butler has been sentenced to an 18 month prison term for his role in the whole Vatican leaks "scandal." Take...

Since we're letting all these married Anglicans come over and be ordained without a whole lot of problems, does this mean we can dispen...

Make sure you visit and bookmark Boniface & Company's (including yours truly) new project at the Unam Sanctam Catholicam web sit...

You can read Fr. Emile Warre's book on bees here . Fr. Warre invented the hive design that carries is name. It is a simple beekee...

I got my own beehive back in March of this year. I'm not looking to become a honey magnate or anything. It's just something I...

With all the new flak over Mitt Romney and his comments about the 47% (or whatever it is) who don't pay income tax, a not-very-funny thi...

That's on the program for the Mother Teresa Catholic secondary school in Ontario. They are setting up a prayer room for Muslims in the s...

I've been watching your show for several years now, trying to stop, but always getting pulled back in by the sheer incredulity of wa...

This is one of the things that is most overlooked in the Church today, and Boniface at Unam Sanctam has done a good job of breaking down the...

Things are getting more and more 1984-ish. War is Peace. Ignorance is Strength. Freedom is Slavery. Pro-Life is Racist. That's what this...

Running with our prior post regarding Pope Benedict's speech on Judas(es) and why dissenters should leave the Church, I thought this was...

As they always have and always will. No amount of ostpolitik, detente, appeasement or whatever you want to call it will ever change that. ...

According to recent reports , the Pope's butler, Paolo Gabriele, is claiming that there are at least twenty folks involved in the Vatica...

I thought this was a good selection to consider for folks who may find themselves frustrated by things like the sex abuse scandal or any o...

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...

The Holy Father's recent address on the Bread of Life discourse needs to be mentioned, with a comparison to current affairs. Consider th...

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

This is from an article by a guy named Salim Mansur in the Toronto Sun . Recall that these are just the things that we know about. William...