Liturgy

Catholicism’s Surrender to Maoism

Beijing Chooses Communist Bishops. Rome Says Yes.

Beijing has chosen a new Catholic bishop who promoted Communist ideology, participated in Maoist political “re-education,” and dismissed reports of persecution against Catholics in his own diocese. Rome approved him anyway. The consecration of Paul Liu Honggang, argues Gaetano Masciullo, is a shocking example of what the Sino-Vatican agreement has produced: The Communist regime chooses, and Rome goes along with it.

Recovering Innocence in a Secular World

When the sacred burns, innocence must rise from the ashes.

The Council merely wished the readings to be proclaimed in the vernacular

Follow-up Questions on My Last Contribution (The Decline of the Papacy?)

The following interview (translated from English back into German by AI) was given by me to Niwa Limbu (AdVaticanum), who followed up on my last contribution regarding the papacy.

Neither at Easter, nor at Pentecost, nor on the Assumption: the Roman Canon disappears from the great solemnities of Leo XIV

The dishes are spotless, everything is in its place, is nothing missing? In reality, behind this meticulously crafted staging, Robert Prevost is discreetly erasing, without anyone batting an eye (except here), what remains of the traditional liturgy, forever bound to the sacrificial character of the Sacrament of the Eucharist. It is precisely this that must disappear so that the synodal Mass may become a simple commemoration of the Last Supper.

The Decline of the Petrine Ministry?

Bishop Marian Eleganti : "I believe that recent popes have lost authority and spiritual capital. Their personalities take center stage."

Editor’s note: The following is a guest commentary from Bishop Marian Eleganti, the former auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Chur and former Abbot of St. Otmarsberg Abbey. It has been published on 'Per Mariam' at the direct request of Bp. Eleganti.

Communion in the Hand: Ancient Norm, Humanist Myth, or Protestant Rebellion?

Leo Reviewed Roche’s Anti-Latin Mass Manifesto “Without Changing a Comma”—And the Trad Inc. Gaslighting Machine Say It Means Nothing

La Razón says Leo reviewed Roche’s anti–Latin Mass paper unchanged. Kwasniewski answered with a “Sede Inc.” sneer and demanded Catholics ignore the government before their eyes.

Did Paul VI Prohibit the Traditional Mass?

“I will not remain silent”

Fr. Joachim Heimerl von Heimthal in conversation with Giuseppe Nardi.

Keep Trad and carry on!

Following the Vatican’s declaration that the SSPX bishops have excommunicated themselves, Dom Alcuin Reid calls for renewed work for Catholic unity

The Holy See’s recent statement on the episcopal consecrations of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X (FSSPX) continues to spark reactions within the Church. Dom Alcuin Reid, a Benedictine monk, liturgist, and one of the most recognized voices in the traditional liturgical movement, publishes a reflection on AdVaticanum in which he calls for a renewed effort at reconciliation and warns that the Church cannot resign itself to seeing a new schism take root. Extracts :

Feast of the Most Holy Sacrament (Corpus Christi)

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