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A brief legal analysis of “Traditionis custodes”
We present to you a legal analysis of the Apostolic Letter issued motu proprio Traditions Custodes written by a priest, a friend of our website,…
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De bello liturgico
Three weeks have passed since the Apostolic Letter was issued, introducing new regulations of the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass. The document once again…
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De causa Cardinalis Gulbinowicz
A few days ago the Apostolic nunciature in Poland issued a statement regarding the investigation into the accusations towards card. Henryk Gulbinowicz, a former metropolitan…
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The crisis and the renewal
Some time ago I got a book of Peter Kwasniewski entitled Resurgent in the Midst of Crisis: Sacred Liturgy, the Traditional Latin Mass, and Renewal…
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Oecumenismus sicut socialismus
On the website of Gość Niedzielny, a popular Catholic magazine, there has appeared an article of Marcin Jakimowicz with a telling title resounding a slogan…
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Ceremonial of Bishops presently in light of the post-Tridentine Caeremoniale Episcoporum [CE]. An analysis of chosen problems: lay Master of Ceremonies and his vestments.
It’s been 10 years since the publication of the motu proprio Summorum pontificum. A lot has changed since then, including the frequency of Pontifical Masses…
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De initio finis
In pomponious-celebratory terms, the last two weeks were an interesting time: not only the number of celebrations of Holy Week according to the rules from…
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De indulto
About a week ago the word spread all over tradInternet about an indult issued by the Papal Commisssion Ecclesia Dei for St. Peter’s Society allowing…
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De ablutione pedum
Francis sanctioned the abuse he committed earlier and introduced to the rite of Mandatum an optional possibility of washing the feet not only of men…
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De Sancta Communione ad manum porrecta
Every once in a while the Catholic side of the Internet flares up with the more or less heated argument on reception of Holy Communion.…
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De egressu a spelunca
I constantly encounter people sharing the opinion that on our website we ruthlessly attack the New Mass, which is unjustifiable, and, when criticising it, we…
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De conditionibus
Some time ago I went to visit a priest I know, together with two friends; as we all are altar boys of the Latin Mass…
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Homo symbolicus
Another Facebook discussion I took part in concerned papal vestments and symbolism. Traditionally, the same arguments appeared, and the accusation of Phariseeism as well. One…
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De natura hominum
There is a quotation of the XXII session of the Council of Trent which has been cited several times in our website and which forms…
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De fructibus et numeris
Post-conciliardom may be criticised in many aspects, using various arguments, but there is no such as efficient a tool as bare numbers: one may notice…
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What for and why?
In the previous articles I have cast light on certain aspects connected with the phenomenon of pompon, in the broad sense of the term, which…
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Reductio ad pharisaeum seu haec et illa
“There is no love in you! You are like Pharisees!” – these callings have become such a permanent element of Internet discussions in the question…
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Don Quixotes of post-conciliardom
Some time ago I coined the phrase that post-conciliardom is not a specified period of time but a state of mind. Other encounters with the…
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De pulchritudine
In the Internet discussions I often encounter comments concerning richness of liturgical paraments which simplify their meaning to excessive splendour which, in addition, was to…
