Traditional Latin Mass in Maryland

Rorate Caeli has now confirmed a story it had posted once before and was asked to remove . To wit, a Personal Parish for the Extraordinary Form is to be established in Rome : the traditional Mass apostolate in Rome under Fr. Joseph Kramer is to be elevated into a personal parish, with Fr. Kramer as its first parish priest. Read the story here ! Update: Gregor Kollmorgen has a nice story on this as well on The New Liturgical Movement with photos and a translation of the complete article ! Further Update: Fr. Zuhlsdorf adds more details on this development. He refers to it as one of Rome's " treasure Churches."

New Catholic on the blog, Rorate Caeli , carries links to photos by J.P.Sonnen of Orbis Catholicus of the Diaconal Ordinations of Seminarians of the Institute of the Good Shepherd (IBP) . The ordinations took place yesterday, February 23rd, at the Basilica of the Most Holy Savior in Rome. The photos are well worth seeing . Hat tip to New Catholic for this find!

Insight Scoop has a Q & A session posted by Carl Olson that is a give and take between His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, and priests and seminarians in his Diocese that is originally from Chiesa: I wanted in part to speak precisely of the last, universal judgment, and in this context also of purgatory, hell, and paradise. I think that we are all still affected by the objection of the Marxists, according to which Christians spoke only of the beyond, and overlooked the earth. So we want to show that we are truly concerned about earthly things, and are not people who speak of faraway realities, who do not help the world. Now, although it is right to demonstrate that Christians work on behalf of the world – and we are all clearly called to work so that this world that may truly be a city for God and of God – we must not forget the other dimension. Without keeping this in mind, we do not work well on behalf of the world. Demonstrating this was one of my fundamental aims in writing t

Fr. John Zuhlsdorf of "What Does the Prayer Really Say" found this gem of an item today and comments upon it . John Thavis of Catholic News Service reports the incredible news : A former Vatican official will ordain four traditionalist priests in a Tridentine Mass celebrated in the cathedral of Rome, church officials said. The Feb. 23 ordination Mass in the Basilica of St. John Lateran will be the most prominent celebration of the old rite in Rome since Pope Benedict XVI relaxed restrictions on its use last year. The Mass, to be celebrated by Archbishop Luigi De Magistris, will follow the 1962 Roman Missal, known commonly as the Tridentine rite. In July 2007 the pope issued new rules, saying the old rite could be used much more freely than before. Now for the part even more interesting: In a statement, the Good Shepherd Institute expressed thanks to the pope and the Diocese of Rome. "We wish to extend our heartfelt thanks to the ecclesiastical authorities who have