Monthly Archive: November 2013

In the Beginning was the Word

St. Edmund the Martyr Word Woe:  Oxford Dictionaries names “selfie” the word of the year, says Salon.  Surely its rise to fame must be in proportion to the decrease in the prayerful aspiration, “Jesus.” ...

Come, Happy December

Join Fr. Richard G. Cipolla in drawing the curtain closed on this liturgical year in this sermon for the last Sunday after Pentecost, brought to you by Rorate Caeli. In this Imaginative Conservative essay,...

New DVD

While I have gently tried to push most of our viewers into the world of streaming over the years we still do occasionally produce DVDs.  Our latest collects interviews with Bps Sanborn and Dolan,...

All Francis Friday

St. Albert the Great Put on your VII glasses.  Francis congratulates the FSSP on its anniversary, and we learn the true price for being “in communion” with the novus ordo church.  Catholic Family News...

Nourishing Tradition

St. Laurence O’Toole In today’s edition of Quidlibet, Fr. Anthony Cekada tells how his organ training allowed him to pass on to a youth at St. Gertrude’s, Andrew Richesson, the “tradition of improvisation stretching...

Serving the Master

Pope St. Nicholas I The faithful swineherd, waiting for his master to return, is a model for all Catholics.  John Cuddeback develops this theme in “Keeping Faith by Keeping Swine,” part 1 of a...

Requiem Aeternam

We were reminded today by one of our readers that today would have been Fr. Martin Stepanich’s 98th Birthday.  November 18th is the one-year anniversary of his passing.  In the month of the Holy...