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Author Archives: Rev. Anthony Cekada

Internet Masses: Spiritual Benefits

Saturday, November 1, 2008

QUESTION: What benefits do I derive from watching the traditional Latin Mass on the internet? I know I don’t get the full benefit I would if I were there in person. RESPONSE: It is clear, based on the teaching of pre-Vatican II theologians regarding hearing Mass over the radio or television, that one could not […]

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Baptism of Desire = Perfect Charity or Contrition

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

QUESTION: On the subject of baptism of desire and blood, when I question the subject on one traditional website to a priest and say I believe in it, I am told I am in heresy. If I tell a priest on another traditional website that I am against it, he tells me I am in […]

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Juan Fernandez Krohn, “Papal Assassin,” and SSPX

Sunday, October 19, 2008

The recent revelation by Cardinal Dziwisz that John Paul II was actually wounded during an attempt on his life at Fatima in May 1982 raised a number of questions in the blogsphere about the would-be assassin, the Rev. Juan Fernandez Krohn, and about Fr. Krohn’s relationship with Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre’s Society of St. Pius X […]

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The ’68 Consecration Rite and Lutheran Orders

Friday, June 27, 2008

ON JUNE 26, 2008, the conservative Novus Ordo website Rorate Coeli published an article criticizing those modernist theologians who promote the notion that Lutheran ministers may indeed possess valid apostolic succession. (This would mean that the sacraments they confer are all valid.) This came on the heels of Rorate’s 14 June 2008 article, “Got a […]

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An Ex-Sede, the Motu Mass and Refusing Sacraments

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

A CASE TO RESOLVE: Father Romanus, a sedevacantist, is asked to offer Mass for and address a small gathering of traditionalists in another state. The topic of his address: Why one should not actively participate in “una cum” Masses — that is, Masses at which the name of Benedict XVI is put into the first […]

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Ratzinger, Reverence and the Epistle Babe

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

IS BENEDICT XVI launching a liturgical reform to restore tradition and reverence in Catholic worship? Having permitted the use of the ’62 Missal as the “Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite,” is he now trying to make New Mass itself “more traditional”? Conservative bloggers who devote themselves following liturgical matters in the post-Vatican II Church […]

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The St. Michael Prayer: A “Falsified” Text?

Monday, November 12, 2007

ONE STORY that periodically resurfaces in traditionalist circles alleges that the St. Michael Prayer, recited after the traditional Mass in many places as a part of the Leonine Prayers, is a “falsified” version of a longer prayer written by Leo XIII. The longer prayer, the story goes, warned that Judaeo-Masonic infiltrators would achieve their long-time […]

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The Traditional Mass: How We “Participate”

Friday, November 9, 2007

QUESTION: Friends who are regulars at the Novus Ordo say that they like all the participation at the service, and that they don’t like the traditional Latin Mass because it doesn’t really have much. I tell them that there’s nothing wrong with not participating, and that it makes for more reverence. Do you have any […]

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Bp. Williamson Plays Cat and Mouse

Sunday, November 4, 2007

IN HIS latest blog entry on Pascendi (St. Pius X’s great Encyclical against modernism), Bishop Richard Williamson (SSPX) once again promotes his theory that the modernists of our own days (Ratzinger and company) are not true heretics because “subjectivism unhooks their mind from reality.” See Pascendi II It is another application of Bishop Williamson’s Mentevacantist […]

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A Pope as a “Manifest” or “Public” Heretic

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

QUESTION: In 2004 the SSPX Canadian publication “Communicantes” published “Sedevacantism,” a lengthy critique of that position by Fr. Dominique Boulet. One of his principal arguments against sedevacantism was that, whatever you may think about the post-Conciliar popes, they are not really “manifest,” “public,” or “notorious” heretics, as canon law understands those terms. What’s your response […]

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