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Bishop Mark Jabale at the LMS Annual Requiem in Westminster Cathedral Guide to this series: The Psychology of the  Rigid Personality ...

A male-dominated sanctuary at the LMS Priest Training Conference at Prior Park. It is often pointed out that there are women described a...

Solemnity, discipline, beauty, awe. The Dominican Rite in Oxford. Further to the debate about masculinity and the liturgy, and an artic...

The real Savoranola The real Savoranola would have given pretty short shrift to the individual who has taken on his name for the purpos...

Perhaps the most harmful thing Mgr Basil Loftus does in his lengthy columns is disinformation. Writing at length, with a scattering of ref...

I am only now blogging about the latest round of the thrilling exchange between me and Mgr Basil Loftus, because my copy of the The Catho...

The Catholic Times rejoices in the contributions of Mgr Basil Loftus, whose columns I find painful to read. I forced myself to do the othe...

The term 'Reform of the Reform' (RotR?) most obviously means reforms made to the 1970 Missal by the Holy Father, of which the pri...

Just watch this, it will brighten your day (unless you are the person deputed by The Tablet to watch my blog ). Especially from just over ha...

Below is a letter published today in The Tablet, in response to their leading article (and other articles) on the use of Altar Girls at the ...

The strange attitude of Dr John Casey to the use of altar girls at the Traditional Mass (displayed in The Tablet) set me wondering, as they ...

My weekly penance - usually performed on a Friday, though since I was busy yesterday it is appropriate enough to do it today, an Ember Satur...

Monsignor Guido Pozzo, Secretary of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, has written a letter confirming that the permission for females ...

As I have noted , when the Congregation for Divine Worship allowed females to serve the altar, it cited two important problems with it: it i...

As I noted, Church documents allowing altar girls do so with evident reluctance, citing two reasons: the 'noble tradition' of the Ch...

The recent Instruction 'Universae Ecclesiae' on the interpretation of the Motu Proprio 'Summorum Pontificum' has made it cle...

There's a flurry on the blogosphere about female alter servers being used at the Traditional Mass. It is surprising that this should ha...