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The world knows Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg. Does it know Tim Berners-Lee? The world knows "Uncle Joe" Stalin. Does it know ...

" It is also well-known that Giovanni  Battista  Montini was exiled from the Curia to the See of Milan by Pius XII, without being m...

( source ) The heavily politicized canonizations of the postconciliar era continue unabated. Papa Montini is the latest to receive the d...

Pius XI, Papa Ratti, was the last pope following traditional models of the papacy much like how his name predecessor, Pius X, was the fi...

Bill Riccio's poignant reaction to recent proposals to modify the "liturgical books of 1962" (aka the "Mass of the Ages...

I read them the Numbers.... source: Cornell Catholic Community's Facebook page "Oh, Rad Trad! How are you today, Rad Trad?...

"Let the law of supplication," wrote St. Prosper during the reign of Leo the Great, "form the law of belief." Traditi...

Seven candle laid before the altar in the Leonian Triclinium during the Fourth Lateran Council, Innocent III presiding. "And on the...

source: sgg.org Our post on Byran Houghton generated some passing discussion on the liturgical reforms of Pius XII and the curious tend...

source: ignatiusinsight.com The first ten chapters of Louis Bouyer's Memoirs  are characteristic of Franco-Germanic charm, or at lea...

source: traditionalcatholicism83.blogspot.com Could the change in liturgical life brought about by the innovation of pews have contribut...

News of the pope's very prominent role in de facto  ending America's long standing embargo against Communist Cuba has caused th...

Elsewhere we have cited Jean Guitton's radio interview in which he stated his friend, Papa Montini, aimed to approximate the Roman rit...