Ukraine, Russia, and the world: A conversation with George Weigel
By Carl E. Olson on Feb 24, 2022 06:34 pmGeorge Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of Washington’s Ethics and Public Policy Center and the author of over twenty books on politics, theology, current events, and history. His syndicated column is published each week by [...]
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Catholics in Europe react to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
By Catholic News Agency on Feb 24, 2022 08:05 amnull / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA. Rome Newsroom, Feb 24, 2022 / 06:05 am (CNA). This story is developing and will continue to be updated.Catholics across Europe have reacted to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with expressions of solidarity with the Ukrain... [...]
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God’s plan for conjugal love: A response to Cardinal Hollerich and the German synodal way
By Dr. R. Jared Staudt on Feb 24, 2022 03:05 amJesus regularly challenged his followers, inviting them to put the kingdom first by denying themselves and taking up their cross. Jesus did not teach self-affirmation of one’s own desires or that we should prioritize human [...]
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Peter Dinklage triumphs in Cyrano, a bittersweet joy pierced by theological angst
By Steven D. Greydanus on Feb 23, 2022 07:55 pmAmong the many shrewd conflations made by Erica Schmidt in adapting Edmond Rostand’s play Cyrano de Bergerac as a musical, first for the stage and then for the screen, is a mashup of two virtuoso [...]
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Extra, extra! News and tidings, February 23, 2022
By CWR Staff on Feb 23, 2022 06:06 pmA win for Catholic schools: Staying open during the pandemic paid off in growing enrollment. Catholic Schools’ Good Covid Year “Social Emotional Learning”: Public Schools Indoctrinate Even Non-Verbal Special Needs Kids in Gender Confusion. The [...]
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Major archbishop: Russia’s east Ukraine move places ‘all of humanity’ in danger
By Catholic News Agency on Feb 23, 2022 07:20 amMajor Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, leader of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. / ACI Group Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb 23, 2022 / 05:20 am (CNA). The leader of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church said on Tuesday that “all of humanity has been plac... [...]
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On Ukraine
By George Weigel on Feb 23, 2022 03:02 amFor months now, the world press has described Russian troop deployments along Ukraine’s borders as spearheads of a possible invasion. The truth, however, is that Russia invaded Ukraine seven years ago, when it annexed Crimea [...]
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Understanding the Hierarchy of Truths
By Douglas Bushman on Feb 22, 2022 07:35 pmCatechists, evangelists, apologists and others today sometimes encounter the term “hierarchy of truths.” Sometimes the term is misused to imply that some truths of the faith are negotiable or that some truths are less true [...]
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What is Pope Francis’ plan for traditionalist groups?
By Catholic News Agency on Feb 22, 2022 11:55 amSolemn Mass is celebrated at St. Clement Parish, Ottawa, Canada, which is entrusted to the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP). / Public Domain. Vatican City, Feb 22, 2022 / 09:55 am (CNA). Pope Francis has allowed the Priestly Fraternity o... [...]
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Searching for true happiness: An interview of J. Budziszewski
By Jesse Russell on Feb 21, 2022 08:39 pmProfessor J. Budziszewski is the author of numerous books, including What We Can’t Not Know: A Guide (Ignatius Press), Commentary on Thomas Aquinas’s Treatise on Happiness and Ultimate Purpose (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), as well [...]
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Who Baptizes? Sacramental specificity in an auto-correct world
By Fr. Charles Fox on Feb 21, 2022 04:03 pm“Do this in memory of me.” –Luke 22:19 For a few years now, I have observed the slow but steady corrosion of my spelling ability. With the rising ubiquity of spell-check and especially auto-correct features [...]
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FSSP says Pope Francis has issued decree confirming its use of 1962 liturgical books
By Catholic News Agency on Feb 21, 2022 10:49 am
Vatican City, Feb 21, 2022 / 04:49 am (CNA).
Pope Francis has issued a decree confirming that the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) can continue to use the liturgical books in force in 1962, according to the traditionalist group.
In a communique published Feb. 21, the FSSP said that Pope Francis met with two members of the priestly fraternity for nearly an hour, a week before he promulgated the decree.
“In the course of the audience, the pope made it clear that institutes such as the Fraternity of St. Peter are not affected by the general provisions of the motu proprio Traditionis custodes, since the use of the ancient liturgical books was at the origin of their existence and is provided for in their constitutions,” it said.
The FSSP is a canonically approved community of priests dedicated to the “formation and sanctification of priests in the cadre of the traditional liturgy” and the care of souls and pastoral activities in the service of the Church.
The group has more than 50 personal parishes in North America and is active in 39 dioceses across the United States. It also has 85 apostolates in France and Belgium and 79 apostolates in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
The decree gives the FSSP full permission to offer the Traditional Latin Mass, carry out the sacraments, and fulfill the Divine Office, according to the Missal, the Ritual, the Pontifical and the Roman Breviary that were used in 1962.
This faculty is limited to the FSSP’s own churches and oratories, unless there is consent from the local Ordinary, with the exception of private Masses.
The FSSP said that Pope Francis signed the decree, issued in Spanish and Latin, on Feb. 11, the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes and the date that the group was solemnly consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
The Holy See press office had not responded at the time of publication to a request from CNA to confirm the text of the decree.
According to the group, the pope received Father Benoît Paul-Joseph, the superior of the FSSP district of France, and Father Vincent Ribeton, the rector of St. Peter’s Seminary in Wigratzbad, Germany, in private audience on Feb. 4.
“During the very cordial meeting, they recalled the origins of the fraternity in 1988, the pope expressed that he was very impressed by the approach taken by its founders, their desire to remain faithful to the Roman Pontiff and their trust in the Church. He said that this gesture should be ‘preserved, protected and encouraged,’” the FSSP said.
The meeting took place more than six months after Pope Francis issued Traditionis custodes (“Guardians of the tradition”), a motu proprio that restricted the use of the Traditional Latin Mass and prohibited it from being celebrated in parish churches without the permission of the local bishop.
The priestly fraternity said in July 2021 that it was surprised and deeply saddened by the reasons given for limiting the use of the Missal of Pope St. John XXIII.
The group noted that the Traditional Latin Mass had prompted “many people” to discover the Catholic faith or return to the Catholic faith.
“How can we fail to notice, moreover, that the communities of the faithful attached to it are often young and flourishing, and that many Christian households, priests or religious vocations have come from it,” it said.
FSSP was founded by 12 priests who were formerly members of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), a group that has a canonically irregular status.
The FSSP’s constitutions reference the teachings of the Second Vatican Council, and the fraternity says that it “has always sought to be in accord with what Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI called in 2005: ‘the hermeneutic of reform in the continuity of the Church.’”
“Grateful to the Holy Father, the members of the Fraternity of St. Peter are in thanksgiving for this confirmation of their mission,” the FSSP said on Feb. 21.
“They invite all the faithful who feel close to them as a spiritual family to attend or join them in prayer at the Mass tomorrow, on the feast of the Chair of St. Peter, and to pray for the Supreme Pontiff.”
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How George Washington anticipated and warned of our present national situation
By Jude P. Dougherty on Feb 21, 2022 09:00 amAs America’s laborious process for choosing a president moves slowly but noisily ahead, there is much to be learned from the wisdom of the first holder of that office. George Washington called it a “Solemn [...]
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Words matter: On Christ, clerics, and the sacraments
By Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers on Feb 20, 2022 05:08 pmMy wife loves puzzles. She has been working on a thousand-piece puzzle since last December and is determined to complete it by herself. As she nears the end, I noticed that several pieces of the [...]
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Why turn the other cheek? To defeat hatred and evil, Pope Francis says
By Catholic News Agency on Feb 20, 2022 10:22 amPope Francis waves during the Angelus on Sept. 26, 2021 / Vatican Media Vatican City, Feb 20, 2022 / 08:22 am (CNA). To love one’s enemies and to turn the other cheek seems impossible, but Jesus Christ’s love gives Christians this strength that... [...]
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Bianchi and the lost identity of the community of Bose
By Ines Angeli Murzaku on Feb 19, 2022 06:34 pmWhat has happened to the community of Bose since April of last year? As of January 30, 2022, after the general council, the monastic community of Bose has elected a new prior, Sabino Chialà, who [...]
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Mercy, justice, and offering the other cheek
By Carl E. Olson on Feb 19, 2022 03:45 amReadings: • 1 Sam 26:2, 7-9, 12-13, 22-23 • Psa 103:1-2, 3-4, 8, 10, 12-13 • 1 Cor 15:45-49 • Lk 6:27-38 The Thomistic philosopher Josef Pieper, in Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power, wrote, [...]
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The story of Father Baptista de Segura and the Virginia martyrs
By Dr. Christopher Shannon on Feb 18, 2022 08:31 pmThe history of the state of Virginia offers few opportunities to reflect on the glories of the Catholic past. Its founding moments are primarily reminders of great Catholic defeats. The original English settlement of Jamestown [...]
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How much are you worth? On the extravagant, inefficient love of God
By Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille on Feb 18, 2022 08:06 pmI like to joke that I’m 50% Scottish, but 100% cheap—yet only in certain areas. Cheese is not one of them. When I had occasion some years back to be in Indianapolis regularly, I always [...]
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Pope Francis says Eastern Catholic Churches have shown heroic faith amid miseries of war
By Catholic News Agency on Feb 18, 2022 02:00 pmPope Francis meets participants in the plenary assembly of the Congregation for the Eastern Churches at the Vatican’s Clementine Hall, Feb. 18, 2022 / Vatican Media. Vatican City, Feb 18, 2022 / 12:00 pm (CNA). Pope Francis said on Friday that ... [...]
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