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Pistoia revisited, Mass as Experience not a lecture, Missal for the Faithful, Pius X's "modernism," Gregorian chant, worship first, teaching…
The Synod of Pistoia in 1786 was a regalist gathering instigated by a grand duke seeking to clip papacy’s wings who got almost no local support in his…
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The bishop who lost his way: Tuscany in the 1780s. Plus communion for all?
Pius X (1903-1914) is best known for promoting frequent communion, seen by some at the time as making a sacred thing unduly common and therefore less…
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Ecumenism a third rail for liturgical reform but part of its mystique. The Belgian monk Beauduin, a once parish priest with an eye for the…
People in the movement.
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19th Century Rediscoveries: The Mass as Experience Not a lecture, not even a prayer meeting. Being moved by the Spirit.
In 1840 the Benedictine monk Dom Prosper Gueranger published his Les Institutions liturgiques, “a closely argued attack on the neo-Gallican liturgies…
Jan 13
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Tale of several popes. Unfolding drama unfolds further. New Mass “poisoned fruit of the perversions” of the liturgical movement . . .
Continuing book in progress, working title “Dominus Vobiscum” -- The Lord be with you . . .
Jan 12
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Free speech in the ‘nineties, in Oak Park IL . . .
There for the man who owned his own darn weekly newsletter. Blithe Spirit explains itself in its inaugural issue, 3/6/96 . . .
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Novus Ordo dissected . . . Key reading left out . . . would scandalize people . . . And more . . .
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Dec 29, 2025
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On being a Jesuit in the 1950s: Teaching at Ignatius, then Loyola Academy. The terrible Teuton. Classroom dealings. Scolding not good…
CHANGE OF VENUE In any case, if by the close of first year I had got the hang of running a class and managing passably well with the boys, I had been…
Dec 27, 2025
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