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Category Archives: ASK FATHER Question Box
QUAERITUR: Bishops and Titular Sees
From a reader: Recently, you had a post up regarding Archbishop Nienstedt’s defense of traditional marriage. As a curious person, I looked up the Archbishop’s background and discovered he once held the titular see of Alton, in Illinois, when he was serving as an auxiliary … Continue reading
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box
Tagged auxiliary bishops, cathedra, cathedrals, titual sees
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QUAERITUR: Is it sinful to go to Saturday evening Mass if you can go on Sunday?
From a reader: Is it wrong or even sinful to attend a Saturday evening vigil Mass IF you could otherwise attend a Sunday Mass? I ask this because at my parish there is one particular priest who has solid homilies … Continue reading
QUAERITUR: Mass obligation and Traditional Anglican Communion
From a reader: Can a Roman Catholic fulfill her Sunday Obligation at a Traditional Anglican Communion church that is part of one of the Pro-Dioceses awaiting the construction of the Ordinariate for the United States? In the Code of Canon … Continue reading
QUAERITUR: Lack of support shown to a convert.
From a reader: I joined the Church at this year’s Easter Vigil and am so glad to be Catholic. My family and most of my friends are very supportive, but there are a couple who are so derisive of my … Continue reading
QUAERITUR: Why don’t priests use the Apostolic Pardon for the dying?
From a reader: I understand that the Sacrament of the anointing is not the same as the apostolic pardon. Why is it that some priests do not say those words for this pardon and give both the blessing and the … Continue reading
PRAYERCAzT/PODCAzT: Pentecost – the whole nine yards – WDTPRS POLL
I inflict my singing on you for most of this project. There is also a POLL. This is also PODCAzT 120. Quite a while back I started a PRAYERCAzT series, wherein I read and/or sang the prayers and readings for … Continue reading
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, Brick by Brick, Our Catholic Identity, POLLS, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
Tagged Canticum Clericorum Romanum, Epistle tone, Extraordinary Form, Gospel tone, liber usualis, Missa Cantata, podcast, preface, Solemn Mass, St. John Cantius, TLM, tonus ferialis, tonus festivus, tonus solemnior, tonus solemnis
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QUAERITUR: Giving Redemptionis Sacramentum to a priest to correct him.
From a reader: Do you think it would be a good idea to give a parish priest and the curates a copy each of Redemptionis Sacramentum for Christmas or as a random gift? [Does that mean “anonymous” gift, or a … Continue reading
QUAERITUR: Reception of Communion twice in one day, revisited.
From a reader: The seminarians of ___ are assigned a parish for the summer (as most are, I presume). Sometimes the seminarians serve at more than two Masses. Can they receive Holy Communion more than twice? No. Unless they are … Continue reading
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Tagged c. 917, can. 921 § 2, Holy Communion, iterum, Viaticum
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QUAERITUR: Can we say “And with your spirit” now?
From a reader: Could you perhaps use some of the new translation now? For example saying “And with your spirit.” under your breath or even using it in confirmation when the bishop says “Peace be with you.” It seems to … Continue reading
