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The appointment of Fr David Waller as the first Bishop Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham represents not only a major new chapter in the life of the Ordinariate, but a rare landmark moment for the Church throughout the Anglosphere: the elevation of a former Anglican clergyman to the episcopate. It also brings to mind how cradle Catholics can forget how easy they have it compared to us Anglican converts.

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The Portuguese poet José Tolentino Mendonça is a handsome man in his fifties with a shaved head and meticulously trimmed beard. In one photograph he’s wearing an ultramarine blue polo shirt; in another, a lovely beige cashmere sweater that matches his tan. His poems depict emotional pain in cryptic language. In ‘The Last Day of

Pope Francis has said he launched the latest crackdown against access to the Traditional Latin Mass because the Old Rite was being mi

The common post-conciliar understanding of “communion,” taken to its logical conclusion, often ends in absurdities.

Georg Gaenswein, Benedicts personal secretary who was seen kissing his wooden coffin in St Peters Square last week, has embarrassed the Vatican with a series of revelations.

Archbishop Georg Gänswein, private secretary to Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI since 2003, highlights the late German pope’s differences with Pope Francis

The Hans Kung and Bishop Spong effect.

A community Carols and Candles event at the Shrine of Christ the King Sovereign Priest in Chicago, Ill., Dec. 16, 2017. / Marc Monaghan via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)Denver Newsroom, Aug 4, 2022 / 17:19 pm (CNA).A prominent Chicago church which is home to a Traditional Latin Mass religious institute announced the end of all public Masses, as of last Sunday."As of August 1, 2022 the celebration of public Masses is suspended," said a message on the website of the Shrine of Christ the King....

A community Carols and Candles event at the Shrine of Christ the King Sovereign Priest in Chicago, Ill., Dec. 16, 2017. / Marc Monaghan via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Denver Newsroom, Aug 4, 2022 / 17:19 pm (CNA). A prominent Chicago church which...