Fr Peter Carota: like Britain's Fr Thwaites, he will have a profound influence on the Catholic world

Fr Peter was a late-vocation, having been a hugely successful and affluent real estate agent in California, before forsaking his glittering ...

The Latin Mass: "you will be blown away"

God bless this teenager's spontaneity and fortitude! "SheIsCatholic" manages to be witty and give powerful little messages - a...

Chocolate dresses on a rainy day...

I got a lovely present of some chocolate dresses from my friend Helen. Not to be worn, you understand, but for eating. Chocolate always tas...

Blogmeet Memoir Part 2. Blogger-to-blogger…in real life

The speakers ascend the stage and take their places at the panel… Every blogger in the room has their fingers poised over their keyboard as ...

Elizabeth Taylor died today at 79 - the star who nearly became Catholic

Screen legend Elizabeth Taylor passed away today at the age of 79. While she had a chequered history with religions, she did consider beco...

Beautiful Tridentine Mass in Cork on St Patrick's Day!

Fr. Anthony Boucheron of the Institute of Christ the King celebrated Tridentine Mass in Ss Peter and Paul's Church yesterday. Can you s...

Let’s all say ‘the bullet’ for three days that the integrity of the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum will be preserved and the celebration of the Tridentine Latin Mass will be extended

Please post this prayer on your blog, it is the one the Holy Father calls "the bullet", it is so fast and effective, it goes strai...

Never again could ‘they’ say it was ‘a sin’ to go to the Tridentine Mass

Prior to 7/7/2007, how these invectives used to fill the air; ‘you have no right to go to a Latin Mass. That was banned!’ ‘It’s an act of ...

The first St. Pius…his influence continues to this day

Word 12" name="Originator"> Today is the feast day of the first Pope Pius who prescribed that the feast of the Resurr...

Turning people off the Tridentine Latin Mass… Part One

During my teenage years, I started conscientiously practising my faith, with earnest confessions and attending Sunday Mass. The Rosary was...

'Blood of Christ inebriate me' Part Two

Today at Tridentine Latin Mass I heard during the sermon that Pope John XXIII's first encyclical was based on the Most Precious Blood of...

Re Bishop Moran's letters to me

This morning (19/6) I received a second letter from Bishop Moran, stating that he has offered Mass for Fr. Michael Mary’s intentions and t...

Stolen Hosts

When you’re preparing for Mass, you don’t think to yourself ‘what will I do if I see a Host being stolen?’ In fact, the question never occ...

Communion in the Hand…'flying fragments’…

I’ve explained how it causes fragments of Our Lord to encrust themselves in the crevices of hands. Then the fragments go wherever the hand g...

E-mail to Bishop Moran...

I'm not suggesting everyone send a Mass stipend to Bishop Moran for the intention of Fr. Michael Mary. Fr. Michael Mary was the proposed...

Pope Benedict saved us from Maciel Milieu

During a sermon that meditated on The Good Shepherd, (9AM Mass Brompton Oratory, April 18th) Fr. Bowen bravely developed his sermon to exami...

Communion on the tongue is the ‘norm’? ‘No!’

                          Pope Benedict gives First Holy Communion  But away from Rome and during this year 2010... She was standing with ...