Benedict is here:
J.F. Powers Sums It Up
"All this talk of community, communicating, and so on-it was just whistling in the dark. Life's not a cookout by Bruegel the Elder and people know it" from Wheat that Spingeth Green quoted in John Wauck's review in National Review.
Hugh of Cluny is a Society Dedicated to the Traditional Mass
The Moto Proprio ("Which moto proprio?" you ask?) has spawned Hugh of Cluny is a Society, a Society located in Greenwich, Connecticut, dedicated to promoting the Traditional Mass in accordance with the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum. Click on this post to link to their site.
They have a nice set of photos of a mass for the Ascension at St. Saviour parish in New York (George Rutler's parish. I think it is John Neuhaus's as well.)
They have a nice set of photos of a mass for the Ascension at St. Saviour parish in New York (George Rutler's parish. I think it is John Neuhaus's as well.)
Peggy Noonan on Benedict XV
Peggy Noonan reminds us how it unusual for a leader to "dwell on the virtues of his predecessor." She tells us how Benedict XVI, on the anniversary of john Paul the Great's death moved her: "He spoke of the distilled message of John Paul's reign: 'Be not afraid,' the words 'of the angel of the Resurrection, addressed to the women before the empty tomb.' Which words were themselves a condensed message: Nothing has ended, something beautiful has begun, but you won't understand for a while."
Do read what she has to say.
Do read what she has to say.
