International Traditional Catholic Blognoreply@blogger.com (New Catholic)Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:48:06 GMTBlogger http://www.blogger.com10352125https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/en-usnoInternational Traditional Catholic Blognoreply@blogger.comhttps://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2026/08/two-thirds-of-congregation-for-doctrine.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (New Catholic)Sun, 9 Aug 2026 09:31:13 GMTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19978542.post-6021101567781448802Vjera i djela Catholic Portal (Croatia)August 7, 2026Italian journalist D. Murgia recently published results of the 2016 deliberations within the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), that shed important new light on the Vatican’s handling of the alleged apparitions at Medjugorje.The International Commission on Medjugorje, chaired by Cardinal Camillo Ruini, had been established in https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2026/08/only-diocesan-tlm-in-diocese-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (New Catholic)Sat, 8 Aug 2026 22:21:18 GMTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19978542.post-8234903153022876746The Diocese of Pittsburgh has canceled its only remaining diocesan indult Latin Mass, at St Titus in Aliquippa, about to enter its 20th consecutive year, because according to Bishop Eckman, it "was only ever meant to be temporary." (Information from the X account of the Mason-Dixon Latin Mass Society, which published the grotesque letter below): https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2026/08/latest-book-by-fr-claude-barthe.htmlBook releasesClaude BartheLiturgical reformOs Justi Presssacramentsnoreply@blogger.com (Peter Kwasniewski)Fri, 7 Aug 2026 13:28:17 GMTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19978542.post-5363881570523478423In 1969, A Short Critical Study of the Novus Ordo Missae was published with the signatures of two powerful cardinals, Bacci and Ottaviani. Nicknamed The Ottaviani Intervention, it quickly become a classic, and has never gone out of print. But... where was its companion volume? You know, the one about the other six sacraments?   For, indeed, the reform of the Mass was accompanied by a https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2026/08/when-princes-of-church-no-longer-speak.htmlCardinalsDavid BergerLatinnoreply@blogger.com (Peter Kwasniewski)Wed, 5 Aug 2026 18:57:49 GMTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19978542.post-8997739103942686977A guest article by David Berger. (Original in German here.)   More than two-thirds of the members of the College of Cardinals are said to possess little or no working knowledge of Latin. At first glance, this may appear to be little more than a curiosity for classical scholars. In reality, however, it may reveal one of the deepest crises confronting the Catholic Church today. For when the https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2026/08/video-reliving-history-sydneys-historic.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (New Catholic)Tue, 4 Aug 2026 18:49:00 GMTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19978542.post-2971811525641922462A truly monumental chapter in Sydney's religious history unfolded recently at St Michael's Parish in Belfield. On Wednesday, July 1, 2026, hundreds of faithful gathered to witness and partake in Sydney’s first-ever Solemn High Mass in the Traditional Croatian Glagolitic Rite.* Held on the Feast of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord, the atmosphere was charged with deep reverence as the communityhttps://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2026/08/but-what-is-state-of-necessity-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (New Catholic)Mon, 3 Aug 2026 19:05:22 GMTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19978542.post-7195015281461778884 But What Is the "State of Necessity"? By Roberto de MatteiAugust 3, 2026 I wish to dwell on a concept that is frequently invoked in an ambiguous and contradictory manner — above all to justify the episcopal consecrations that took place at Écône on July 1, 2026: the "state of necessity." A fundamental point must be clarified at the outset: one must not confuse the term "state of https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2026/08/does-society-of-saint-pius-x-really.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (New Catholic)Mon, 3 Aug 2026 11:23:22 GMTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19978542.post-7559854091197694775[As always, guest pieces do not necessarily represent Rorate's position.]Fr. Barré and the Roman policy towards the SSPXby John Lamont Fr. Clément Barré, of the Archdiocese of Toulouse, has criticized the ecclesiology of the SSPX in an article whose translation has been published by Rorate Caeli (The SSPX's Ecclesiology of Substitution: Part of the Whole, or a new Whole? — And the Problem with ahttps://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-progressives-have-already-lost-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (New Catholic)Mon, 3 Aug 2026 10:56:00 GMTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19978542.post-8899323359734217938 The Progressives Have Already Lost. And They Know It. Wanderer (Argentina)August 3, 2026One of the most historically significant events of the last century was the fall of communism. In 1991, the Soviet Union ceased to exist. And yet the ideology sustaining Soviet communism had already collapsed under Brezhnev in the 1970s and had consolidated that collapse under Andropov https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2026/08/book-review-once-and-future-roman-rite.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (New Catholic)Mon, 3 Aug 2026 10:53:35 GMTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19978542.post-6559008165007202485The following essay by Wolfram Schrems (M.A. in Theology, M.A. in Philosophy), a catechist and pro-life advocate in Vienna, takes issue with the suppression of the Old Mass and the discrimination against traditional believers by the Vatican and bishops, with reference to Peter Kwasniewski’s work The Once and Future Roman Rite: Returning to the Traditional Latin Liturgy after Seventy Years of https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2026/08/ecclesiology-of-sun-and-moon-churchs.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (New Catholic)Sat, 1 Aug 2026 21:00:43 GMTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19978542.post-7401162239208914685by Fr. Joannes Petrusfor Rorate Cæli   “At that time, when Jesus entered into the boat, His disciples followed Him: and behold a great tempest arose in the sea, so that the boat was covered with waves.” (Matt. 8:23-27)To reach the eternal shores of Heaven we have to cross the sea of this world. His Majesty taught us that the world will be against us. That is why the Gospel https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2026/08/spaghetti-and-windmills-reply-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter Kwasniewski)Sat, 1 Aug 2026 16:35:48 GMTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19978542.post-8251353990048728204This guest article has been contributed by Kennedy Hall, replying to “The Canonical Status of the Society of Saint Pius X: A Theological and Canonical Assessment,” published here on July 28, 2026. As always, views are those of the author and do not represent the official stance of Rorate Caeli.   Introduction   On 29 July 2026, Rorate Cæli published a lengthy guest piece on the https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2026/08/new-fundamental-law-of-vatican-city.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (New Catholic)Sat, 1 Aug 2026 00:20:54 GMTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19978542.post-3055980937942226641Fundamental Law of Vatican City State31 July 2026LEO XIVThe need to take into account new requirements of governance and certain important normative modifications that have occurred over the course of recent years prompts the issuance of a new Fundamental Law.This Law—which by its nature serves to give a constitutive character to Vatican City State, established by the Lateran Treaty as a tool to https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-anti-nice-faction-is-fading-in-rome.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (New Catholic)Sat, 1 Aug 2026 00:01:38 GMTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19978542.post-1415682896582681147Archbishop Cordileone Celebrating the Traditional MassGood and proper American bishops are once again being recognized in Rome, and the nomination of Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, of San Francisco, to the supreme tribunal of the Catholic Church, the Signatura Apostolica, by Pope Leo XIV last Saturday is just such an example.Archbishop Cordileone was interviewed yesterday on his nomination by https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-avant-garde-champion-of-tradition.htmlMosebachnoreply@blogger.com (Peter Kwasniewski)Fri, 31 Jul 2026 23:10:06 GMTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19978542.post-8034389255173106591The Avant-Garde Champion of Tradition:In Honor of Martin Mosebach on His 75th Birthdayby Jan-Heiner Tück for Communio (original in German here)The writer Martin Mosebach is a novelist of extraordinary worldly experience and descriptive skill, but also a Catholic intellectual who has made a name for himself through his public interventions. His most influential theological book, Häresie der https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2026/07/divine-worship-prefect-roche.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (New Catholic)Thu, 30 Jul 2026 01:43:21 GMTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19978542.post-6999480268642853151 From his interview to British Catholic periodical “The Tablet,” the words of Cardinal Roche are peremptory: “But no, Pope Leo is not going to change Traditionis Custodes, and he’s not going back to Summorum Pontificum.”Meaning, the Traditional Latin Mass will remain in the Egypt of Captivity (Traditionis) and never return to the Promised Land of Liberty (Summorum).Excerpt below (behindhttps://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-last-communion-of-st-jerome-book-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (New Catholic)Tue, 28 Jul 2026 23:28:00 GMTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19978542.post-9093190380151292930by Fr. Richard Cipollafor Rorate CæliSaint Jerome, El Greco (1590)The Frick Collection The Frick Museum in New York City is not too far from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. And yet the venues are radically different. The Met is a large art museum with many rooms and lofty corridors and grand staircases.  But the Frick building was once a home, a large and lovely home indeed, one of the https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-canonical-status-of-society-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (New Catholic)Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:20:56 GMTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19978542.post-101189461515178947[As usual, Rorate publishes different views and perspectives, in order to promote healthy debate. Publishing a guest piece does not mean editorial agreement, or disagreement, with it.] The Canonical Status of the Society of Saint Pius X: A Theological and Canonical Assessmentby Brother Linus Pio (pen name of a Religious Brother) Introduction The canonical status of the Society of Saint Pius X (https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2026/07/justified-schismatic-or-neither-sspx.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter Kwasniewski)Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:00:00 GMTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19978542.post-6676481867000401034Justified, Schismatic, or Neither — The SSPX Consecrations and the FutureA guest article by James Baresel. Justified or schismatic? For most commentators on the Society of Saint Pius X episcopal consecration, that is the question. For a few, more nuanced in their thinking, the question is either justifiable or (for the bishops alone) worthy of excommunication? But is it possible that the https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2026/07/james-martins-gay-priest-moment-yet-we.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (New Catholic)Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:23:11 GMTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19978542.post-9000472027143684632 He did it. At last he did it. James Martin, the "LGBT"-obsessed Jesuit, has made a true encomium of "gay priests." They are everywhere in his newest propaganda piece: they are good, they are generous, they are kind. And, he emphasizes, they are "celibate" (God only knows how he would know that...)In my almost 40 years as a Jesuit, I’ve known dozens of celibate gay priests [Note: https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2026/07/unlocking-mysteries-of-song-of-songs.htmlBibleBook releasesOs Justi PressPeter KwasniewskiSong of SongsTimothy Kellynoreply@blogger.com (Peter Kwasniewski)Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:51:05 GMTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19978542.post-7932051545552488905If you’ve ever read the Song of Songs (also called the Canticle of Canticles) in the Old Testament, you probably had more than a few questions about it! What is this very sensuous book about a lover and a beloved doing in the canon of Scripture? Are the modern biblical exegetes right when they say it’s just a loose collection of ancient Near Eastern erotic poetry that accidentally found its https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2026/07/cardinal-fernandezs-opera-omnia.htmlBonaventureMater Populi FidelisTucho Fernandeznoreply@blogger.com (Peter Kwasniewski)Fri, 24 Jul 2026 06:30:00 GMTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19978542.post-3534095217160299791A guest article by Fr. Romano Tommasi.Cardinal Fernández has been pierced from time to time by my stylus on One Peter Five, as he will be again in a forthcoming study on the history and sources for infinite dignity. To be fair, Fernández was tasked with officially defending what I have considered the theologically and philosophically indefensible “infinite dignity,” whether viewed from loci https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2026/07/in-20-years-91-monasteries-have-closed.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (New Catholic)Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:22:42 GMTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19978542.post-6124074601801542720 In 20 Years, 91 Monasteries Have Closed — None Among Those Whose Office Is Exclusively in Latin By Michel JanvaLe Salon BeigeJuly 22, 2026In 2026 alone — a year not yet finished — the Grande-Trappe de Soligny (Orne), the Carmel of Compiègne (Oise), and Notre-Dame du Port du Salut (Mayenne) have all closed.Sociologist Isabelle Jonveaux has examined Catholic contemplative monasteries andhttps://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2026/07/a-vatican-ii-moment-in-ecuador.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (New Catholic)Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:23:13 GMTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19978542.post-3618125494880358697 1969? 1975?No, this is the Year of Our Lord 2026, and this is still going on in the New Mass of Paul VI -- the liturgy that Francis called, "the sole expression of the lex orandi of the Roman Rite." (Traditionis custodes).In Mexico, an Ecuadorian artist and lawyer, Wilfrido Haro Rivas, who also happens to be a Jesuit ordained presbyter, is celebrating this expression in what can only https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-july-18th-appeal-of-french-faithful.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (New Catholic)Tue, 21 Jul 2026 11:39:35 GMTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19978542.post-7730418014274750764Appeal of July 18, 2026, to the Bishops of France Lex Orandi UnionJuly 15, 2026 On July 18 [recte: 16], 2021, Pope Francis published the Motu Proprio Traditionis Custodes. Five years later, numerous voices are calling for the revision or suppression of that document, or are pleading for the restoration of Benedict XVI's Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum. The urgency of such a measure is no https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-challenge-of-synod-that-walks-away.htmlCanon of ShaftesburySSPXSynod on Synodalitynoreply@blogger.com (Peter Kwasniewski)Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:45:53 GMTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19978542.post-1074212791355402213The Challenge of a Synod That Walks Away from Christ   A guest article by the Canon of Shaftesbury. [This contribution expresses the opinions of its author and does not represent the official position of Rorate Cæli.]   Introduction   The superiors of the Society of Saint Pius X have argued that there exists a state of emergency in the Catholic Church. Those who deny this claim,