Evelyn Waugh, Cardinal Heenan and Bitter Trials
Ignatius Press has just published a third (!) edition of A Bitter Trial, correspondence between Evelyn Waugh and Cardinal Heenan in the years from 1962 till Waugh’s death in 1966—supplemented by some...
View ArticleMoral Theology and Using the New Translation
Moral Theology and Using the New Tranlsation by Ligouri As we prepare to use the new Missal for the first time next Sunday, Pray Tell and other fora are carrying eloquent statements about the need to...
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Swiss Abbot Harshly Criticizes Church Structures, Calls for Reform in the...
The Benedictine abbot of Mariastein in the diocese of Chur in Switzerland, Peter von Sury, has harsh criticism for the system of appointing bishops in the Catholic Church. He spoke recently in the...
View ArticleFr. Tony Flannery, Emblematic of Our Era
Redemptorist priest Fr. Tony Flannery in Ireland, co-founder of the Association of Catholic Priests, is in trouble with the Roman authorities. He was silenced a year ago for his writings, and he...
View ArticleBishop Conry: Problems of Overcentralization and New Missal under Pope...
Two days after the announcement of Pope Benedict’s resignation, Bishop Kieran Conry, Bishop of Arundel and Brighton in the United Kingdom, spoke out on the pontificate of Pope Benedict in the pages of...
View ArticleSwiss Bishop Sees Urgent Need for Reform of Roman Curia
This is an interesting and perhaps challenging time for the Roman Curia, as bishops here and there begin to speak out more openly about the need for structural reforms in the curia, and problems with...
View ArticleArchbishop of Munich, Ratzinger’s successor, criticizes “royal court carrying...
Cardinal Reinhard Marx, successor to Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Emeritus Benedict) as archbishop of Munich, is critical of “royal court carrying on” at the center of the Roman Catholic Church. The Vatican...
View ArticleJudging custom
The comments on my previous post (trying to give some theoretical structure to the notion of how new customs arise in liturgical practice) mostly focused on canon law and its implications. This...
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