RORATE CÆLI: Progressive liturgist tells us Ratzinger was motivated by sentimentality and guilt

Normally Rorate Caeli would be the last place you’d expect to find a translation of an interview with Andrea Grillo,

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RORATE CÆLI: The Great Resignations — Guest Article by Christian Browne

At the close of the thirteenth century, the papacy was at the height of its religious prestige and political power.

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RORATE CÆLI: “My Spiritual Testament” – Benedict XVI

My spiritual testament When, at this late hour of my life, I look back on the decades I have wandered

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RORATE CÆLI: Cardinals block appointment of Heiner Wilmer as Prefect of the DDF

(Translation of German article by Giuseppe Nardi at Katholisches.info.)It seemed that everything was already fixed: Shortly before Christmas, the appointment

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RORATE CÆLI: CHRISTMAS: Fontgombault Sermon for Christmas Day Mass: “The Child of the crib is truly God.”

Sermon of the Right Reverend Dom Jean Pateau Abbot of Our Lady of Fontgombault Fontgombault, December 25th, 2022 Et Verbum caro factum

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RORATE CÆLI: “It is the traditional diocesan priests that ‘Traditionis Custodes’ is murdering”: Interview with Louis Renaudin

The following is Letter 906 of Paix Liturgique, published in French on December 21, 2022. Paix Liturgique: More than a

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RORATE CÆLI: Mass outside the church in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, at 28° F… Whose fault is that?

The following is Paix Liturgique Letter 905 of December 16, 2022. Translated for Rorate.  For almost two years, the faithful

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RORATE CÆLI: The Best Canonical Critique of “Traditionis Custodes” to Date, and the Clearest Account of the Dogma of Papal Infallibility

The inaccuracies, difficulties of interpretation, and problems of concrete application of Traditionis Custodes and the Responsa ad Dubia have raised many questions among canonists,

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RORATE CÆLI: Keeping Faith Traditions Alive Throughout the Year

RORATE CÆLI: The Council and the Eclipse of God by Don Pietro Leone: CHAPTER 10 (Part 6b). III. FEATURES OF THE TEXTS INFLUENTIAL FOR PROMOTING THE COUNCIL’S WORK (continued): 4. Novelty; 5.Deceit;

We observed above that the Council’s mandate was from the very beginning presented as an aggiornamento, or bringing up-to-date, of

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