Saint Thomas Aquinas answers those today who call into question the splendor of the traditional liturgy. What far too many dismiss as superfluous and showy,...
Is a New Evangelization, a springtime in the Church, possible without a comprehensive, extensive reform of the liturgy? No.
What do I mean? By "reform of t...
Full reverence: Saint Teresa of Avila receives Communion
Catholic blogs are abuzz with these images from Rio, showing "Eucharistic Ministers" distributing H...
2,000 years and counting: at Milwaukee's Saint Stanislaus Parish, east is in
In his book, The Spirit of the Liturgy, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI touches on t...
Saint Francis De Sales Seminary
Among enthusiastic Catholics (priests and laity, popes, bishops, and World Youth Day groupies alike) one often hears spirite...
High altar at Saint Joseph Chapel, Milwaukee
Now, with the Christian altar, comes a new focal point. Let us say it again: on the altar, what the Temple had in...
Suitable Music
“The more closely a composition for church approaches in its movement, inspiration and savor the Gregorian form, the more sacred and liturgical...
The Cathedral of Saint John the Evangelist
"Of the beliefs and practices whether generally accepted or publicly enjoined which are preserved in the Church som...
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
"To celebrate the liturgy in the awareness of God's presence, with that dignity and beauty which make a little of his splendor visi...