I will be speaking this Saturday, June 21st, at a gala event held at the Sanctus Ranch in Pipe Creek, TX, just outside of San Antonio. Hope to see many Rorate readers there!
Full details in poster. Register here.
Sanctus Ranch Gala, Saturday, June 21, 2025, Pipe Creek, TX - Keynote from Dr Peter Kwasniewski
6th Annual Festival of Saint Louis, in St. Louis, Missouri, Aug. 24-25, 2025 - Full Details
"For Truth, Justice, and Peace": Reflections and Proposals from the Association Notre-Dame de Chrétienté
We are grateful to Michael Matt for giving Rorate permission to republish this important statement from the organizers of the Chartres pilgrimage (originally published in English at The Remnant), who have been under severe pressure from the French hierarchy to abandon the traditional Catholic orientation of the pilgrimage, which has just completed its 43rd iteration. As Matt writes: “The razor’s edge that Notre Dame de Chrétienté is talking in defense of the Latin Mass impacts us all, regardless of affiliation.... There are forces at work trying to stop it in the future.”
THE QUESTIONS recently raised about the liturgical use of the Vetus Ordo (or Tridentine liturgy) at the pilgrimage of Christendom are an opportunity to shed light on the history and spirit of our pilgrimage, and more broadly of our spiritual family attached to ‘previous liturgical and disciplinary norms of the Latin tradition’.[1]
On Father's Day: We thank all our priests who heroically persevere in offering the Traditional Latin Mass
Many priests, our spiritual fathers in Christ, both those unknown to us as well as the large and growing number we see faithfully on Sundays in our churches and chapels, continue to persevere heroically in offering the traditional Latin Mass. This despite sustained and incomprehensible persecution on the part of those we should in justice be able always to look to as providential and loving spiritual fathers, our bishops. Thanks to these men we still worship according to the faith of our fathers.
The Worst Possible Sign -- "Apostolic" Persecutions Continue in New Pontificate?
From Italian website Silere non Possum - excerpts:
"Just a few days ago, a letter was sent from Piazza Pio XII to the Cistercian community of Heiligenkreuz, the historic Austrian abbey which today represents one of the few authentic examples of monastic renewal in Europe. The letter announces an Apostolic Visitation by the Dicastery — a strong and clear signal, behind which looms the shadow of Mauro Giuseppe Lepori.
The "Mercy" Hammer Comes Down on Traditional Latin Masses in Detroit -- 10 Parish Masses to be Closed [Update: Ad Orientem posture in Novus Ordo also banned]
[Updated: as the full implementation document at the end makes clear, the ban of ad orientem and other traditional liturgical aspects in the Novus Ordo is not a rumor anymore, but it's fully public.]
Ugliness and cruelty dressed up as goodness and obedience. Disgusting.
A few notes:
1. "Fidelity to the Holy Father's call" - He means Francis; Leo XIV has made no such call yet.
2. The "all other sites" for which permission will end (June 30, 2025) include at least 10 parishes which offer the TLM every Sunday, and often on weekdays.
3. The somewhat soft/passive-aggressive language is repulsive, because it hides the truth: this decision is devastating for the archdiocese that has likely the most TLMs in North America. It also probably indicates as true the rumor of a further document in July banning ad orientem in the Novus Ordo (used at several locations throughout the diocese) [Update: Not a rumor anymore - see end of post]. Detroit was a massive and very public sign of all the good Summorum Pontificum accomplished -- Weisenburger was sent there by Francis to put an end to that.
4. To be truly pastoral, it seems the new archbishop (installed just this past March) could have followed the example of the nearby Diocese of Saginaw and written the Holy See for an extension (allowing the TLM to continue in the meantime). He did no such thing. Because he obviously enjoys being a cruel anti-liturgical enforcer. Remember: for them, the cruelty is the method.
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Letter from Archbishop Weisenburger regarding the celebration of the traditional Latin Mass in the Archdiocese of Detroit
June 13, 2025
Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
The Traditional Latin Mass on Mount Everest
Ab ortu enim solis usque ad occasum, magnum est nomen meum in gentibus, et in omni loco sacrificatur : et offertur nomini meo oblatio munda, quia magnum est nomen meum in gentibus, dicit Dominus exercituum. (Mal. 1:11)
From the National Catholic Register:
After 12 Years, a Pope who Applauds, Loves, and Thanks Priests
After 12 years of insults, belittling, mocking of priests by Francis -- a beautiful address by Pope Leo XIV in his meeting with the clergy of the Diocese of Rome:
I want to ask for a big round of applause for all of you who are here, and for all the priests and deacons of Rome!
Dear Priests and Deacons who provide your service in the diocese of Rome, dear seminarians, I greet you all with affection and friendship!
From Saginaw, Michigan: Bishop allows TLM to continue in parish, overturning previous decision to end it
Saginaw Bishop allows TLM to continue in parish, overturning previous decision to end it --
"Bishop Gruss has said the Latin Mass can continue at Holy Family in Saginaw every Sunday at 3pm"
10 Years After its Abolition by Francis, Leo XIV repristinates Imposition of Pallium in Rome
In 2015, Francis abolished the ceremony of the personal imposition of the Pallium on new archbishops by the pope's own hand in Rome.
At the time, this rupture was presented, as usual, as a positive thing:
Pope to Holy See's Diplomats - Like Peter, give Christ: "To give Christ means to give love, to bear witness to the charity that is ready for everything."
You are already, as people, an image of the Catholic Church, since a diplomatic Corps as universal as ours does not exist in any other country in the world. However, at the same time, I believe that one may equally say that no other country in the world has a diplomatic Corps as united as you are: because your, our, communion is not merely functional, nor an idea; we are united in Christ and we are united in the Church. It is interesting to reflect on this fact: that the diplomacy of the Holy See constitutes in its very staff a model – certainly not perfect, but very meaningful – of the message it proposes: that of human fraternity and peace among all peoples.
Pentecost Monday: Sermon at Closing Mass of Chartres Pilgrimage
Pentecost Monday
Closing Mass of Pilgrimage - Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres
Bishop Philippe Christory, Bishop of Chartres
Pope Leo has just written a message to the Catholic Church in France on the anniversary of the canonisation of Saint John Eudes, Saint John-Mary Vianney, and Saint Thérèse of Lisieux. The Pope tells us: “they loved Jesus unreservedly in a simple, strong and authentic way; they experienced His goodness and tenderness in a special daily closeness, and they bore witness to Him with admirable missionary enthusiasm.” That says it all: love, closeness, and proclamation. May Jesus be the source, the centre, the raison d’être of our lives, as He was for these saints.
Pentecost Sunday Homily at Chartres Pilgrimage - Bp. Athanasius Schneider: "What does it mean to be Catholic? It means Christ is the king of my life: that I am never ashamed to confess Christ."
Sunday June 8, 2025
Les Courlis
Bishop Athanasius Schneider
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen
Happy Pentecost! - And a Blessed Whitsuntide!
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The third major noticeable difference between the traditional Liturgical Year of the Latin Church and the 1969/1970 novelty -- following the abandonment of Ember Weeks and of Septuagesimatide -- is the week that started yesterday with the Pentecost Vigil and ends in one week with Pentecost Saturday.
It is Pentecost Octave, or Whitsuntide, and we are very happy to keep this Tradition going.
A very happy Whitsuntide to all of you!
Cardinal Eijk: Pope Leo will restore unity to the Church -- Something is happening with the Young People in Europe
2021: The Bishop of Haarlem-Amsterdam, Bp. Hendriks,
confirming 16 young faithful among them 9 converted young adults
at the FSSP Personal Parish of St. Joseph in the St. Agnes Church in Amsterdam
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“Pope Leo will restore unity to the Church." -- Cardinal Wim Eijk speaks
One month ago took place the Conclave that elected Robert Francis Prevost to the Throne of Peter: “There are many issues in the Church where there is disagreement, and internal discord is not good for us”
Matteo Matzuzzi
Il Foglio
June 7, 2025
[Edited to leave just questions and answers]
Rome.
Cardinal Willem Jacobus Eijk, Archbishop of Utrecht, was at his second Conclave. Today, almost a month after the election of Leo XIV, he tells Il Foglio about his first impressions of the new pope and what the new pontiff's priorities are (or may be).
In his speeches, Prevost often speaks of unity. Unity also of and in the Church. Is that the case?
C'est parti -- Opening Mass for the Chartres Pilgrimage in Saint-Sulpice, Paris
The Paris-Chartres Pilgrimage started earlier today, with an opening Mass in the massive Church of Saint-Sulpice, in Paris:
The pilgrims are on their way, 20 thousand marching towards Our Lady's shrine in Chartres. Let us keep them in our prayers.
A Life Lived Well - and a Medieval Swedish Church celebrating its First Mass since the Reformation because of it
From reader N.A. in Sweden, in a letter sent to friends and acquaintances of John Bogärde, a pioneer of the revival of the Traditional Latin Mass in Sweden and a father of seven, who recently passed away at 44:
Preparations for the Chartres Pilgrimage - Mass at la Madeleine, Paris
On the occasion of the consecration of the pilgrimage, a traditional mass was celebrated in the prestigious church of the Madeleine (Saint Mary Magdalen), in Paris.
One Month of Leo XIV
by Caminante Wanderer
Argentina, June 5, 2025
Almost a month has passed since the beginning of thge pontificate of Leo XIV. In this blog we said that we would be waiting for the first one hundred days, and there is still more than half of it to go. However, that does not prevent us from gradually getting an idea of his character, based on his words and first decisions.
Wolfe: Farewell, for now
It has been an honor to occasionally write for Rorate, especially on liturgy, sacraments and sacred music. The same goes for the op-eds in newspapers I have been fortunate to have published on the Latin Mass over the last several years.
New Pope - New Methods: Charlotte Bishop Martin Pauses Restrictions on Latin Mass until (at least) October
Thank you to all Catholics who reached out to request a reprieve -- and to all authorities who asked the bishop of Charlotte, Michael Martin, to be reasonable in his struggle against the Traditional Latin Mass. Did he get a phone call about his restrictions? Apparently...
Here's hoping this minor reprieve will be extended indefinitely. (Notice important point near the middle of the article: "In the interim, Bishop Martin said, should the Vatican issue any official changes to Traditionis Custodes, the diocese would abide by those instructions.")
From his diocesan newspaper:
CHARLOTTE — Changes to Traditional Latin Mass offerings in the Diocese of Charlotte will take effect Oct. 2 to align with a deadline mandated by the Vatican – not July 8 as previously planned, Bishop Michael Martin announced Tuesday.
"So, are you still optimistic about the new Pope?"
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Chaperoning two friends from abroad at local attractions, one of them remarked that I seemed very optimistic about the new pope, Leo XIV. I tried to correct him: not optimistic, just not jolted by fear all the time anymore.
Leo XIV: "Marriage is not an ideal but the measure of true love between a man and a woman: a love that is total, faithful and fruitful"
As soon as we were born, we needed others in order to live; left to ourselves, we would not have survived. Someone else saved us by caring for us in body and spirit. All of us are alive today thanks to a relationship, a free and freeing relationship of human kindness and mutual care.
Europe is assisting its own suicide
H/T Il Nuovo Arengario
and Marco Tosatti
Dear Readers, Professor Bernardino Monejano
of Buenos Aires offers us the following reflections on the present state of the
European continent.
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Europe is assisting its own suicide
Time Cover, February 28th 2005
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