Traditional Latin Mass in Maryland

The New Liturgical Movement >> Fr. Dwight Longenecker and the "Radtrad": A Clarification The New Liturgical Movement >> Virgil Fox's Last Concert (one of my personal favorites is his " Toccata and Fugue in D minor " by J.S. Bach) The Recovering Choir Director >> "A Hero of the Century" Whispers in the Loggia >> Around the Beat (more insights on Archbishop Burke and his new Vatican appointments)

Update: Zenit is now also carrying this story as is Saint Louis Catholic . The Catholic News Agency reports that three U.S. prelates were given appointments to positions on either the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts or the Congregation for the Clergy . The Council for Legislative Texts’ main task consists of interpreting the laws of the Church – both the laws concerning the Latin Rite and the common laws of the Eastern Catholic churches. The new appointments are: Cardinals Giovanni Battista Re, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops; Ivan Dias, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples; Lluis Martinez Sistach, archbishop of Barcelona, Spain; Oswald Gracias, archbishop of Bombay, India; William Joseph Levada, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and Leonardo Sandri, prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches; Archbishops John Joseph Myers of Newark, U.S.A., and Raymond Leo Burke of Saint Louis, U.S.A. Archbishop Raymond Bu

Thomas Peters of AmericanPapist reports that Archbishop Burke has pronounced "two more" excommunications meaning "five" in two days. Go to his site for details! Jeffrey Tucker of the New Liturgical Movement has a thoughtful post on the attitude and the sociological details of those of us who watched the virtual disappearance of the "Latin Mass" in the 60's . He entitles his post, "Were the Catholic People Happy About the Abandonment of the Old Mass?" Yes, I was there and lived through it if you wondered about that...