I was recently alerted to a very interesting and telling document of which I had never known, Religiosorum Institutio of the Congregation f...

I have come to love Advent more and more over the years. This year, with Christmas falling on a Saturday, we have the longest possible Adven...

This post is meant as a continuation of what I wrote yesterday, and a reminder to myself that we have to remember charity and mutual underst...

I was alerted to the latest appearance the other day of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist on the Oprah show. Some of us...

In one my classes this semester the professor remarked that the most recent reform had removed the Dies Irae from the liturgy. True, it dis...

There is a happy coincidence in the liturgy today: On the feast of St. Cecelia, one of the great patron saints of sacred music, we have arri...

The press and everyone else are having fun with this one. Last night I heard (from a regular commenter on this blog, no less) a fine analogy...