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  • Restoring the Subculture

    By Russell Shaw “On the whole, I believe, liturgy done in any acceptable style by people who combine faith with good taste is likely to turn out well. And it will well serve the worship needs of American Catholics in the new Catholic subculture now starting to take shape.”

  • What makes a parish worth sticking around?

    The answer won’t come as a surprise to readers of this blog, but you better gas up the car.

  • A New Year’s Resolution: Charity in Discussion

    “Hilaire Belloc wisely wrote that the grace of God is in courtesy. Nobody likes being ignored, ridiculed, insulted or otherwise abused. Everybody appreciates being treated with respect and listened to as if his ideas matter. And while not everyone has good ideas, everyone’s ideas do matter.” – Jeff Mirus at Catholic Culture

  • The mind of the Church on the ‘Novus ordo’

    At Catholic Culture, Jeff Mirus makes a very good point about the reformed liturgy of Paul VI: in the mind of the Church, it is the normal, ordinary form of the Catholic liturgy. The ‘extraordinary’ form is permitted and one may prefer it, but one should not denigrate the Church’s normal, ordinary liturgy.

  • The 11-minute Mass and the Book of Kells

    Here’s Phil Lawler at Catholic Culture on his experience of the Catholic liturgy in Ireland.