Sunday, 6 May 2012

Review of "Work of Human Hands" by Rev. Anthony Cekada

This is an interesting and illuminating history of the reform of the Catholic Mass liturgy which was undertaken in the 1960s, written from an archconservative perspective.

Sunday, 18 March 2012

Another post about confession

An extract from A Commentary on the New Code of Canon Law (1918) by Fr Charles Augustine:

The Church in court

One of the more curious features of Victorian history was a series of legal battles in which clergy and laypeople in the Church of England used the English civil courts to vindicate their various differing interpretations of orthodox Anglican belief and practice.

Wednesday, 21 December 2011

Traditional Catholic pastoral theology: How to hear confessions

Another post taken from Fr Frederick Schulze's Manual of Pastoral Theology (1914).  This time the subject is hearing confessions.

Traditional Catholic pastoral theology: The priest at home

Another extract from Fr Frederick Schulze's Manual of Pastoral Theology (1914).

Traditional Catholic pastoral theology: Ministering to the parishioners

Another extract from Fr Frederick Schulze's Manual of Pastoral Theology (1914).