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Author Archives: Rev. Anthony Cekada

The Leader is Always Right! Fellay, Il Duce, and the SSPX Deal

Monday, May 7, 2012

IN THE FACE of what looks more and more to be an impending deal between SSPX and the Vatican, observation of an English traditionalist on the Ignis Ardens forum speaks volumes about the mentality of the rank-and-file SSPX priest: In London today (May 6, 2012), the priest from the pulpit expressed very frankly how dismayed […]

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An SSPX Deal: But Will the Fat Lady Sing?

Thursday, April 19, 2012

“The opera ain’t over till the fat lady sings.” — George H.W. Bush OUR FORMER president’s allusion to Wagner’s interminable four-opera “Ring Cycle,” which ends after fourteen confusing hours with a well-upholstered soprano howling a ten-minute aria, comes to mind now in mid-April 2012, when the press and the trad blogsphere is abuzz with talk […]

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Short Critique of Article “Regarding the Restored Order of Holy Week”

Saturday, March 31, 2012

QUESTION: I’ve recently encountered a missive of defense regarding HH Pius XII’s Holy Week changes in 1955 and, as I know you argue against them, I thought I’d forward it on to you in case you wanted to address the points at any time. I personally am undecided on the matter, though given the anecdotes […]

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Fr. Martin Stepanich OFM, STD: Seventy Years a Priest!

Sunday, July 3, 2011

NOTE: I thought readers of Quidlibet would enjoy reading some of the reflections of Father Martin Stepanich, OFM, STD, who recently celebrated his seventieth anniversary as a priest. After Vatican II Father rejected the changes and set about conducting an extensive apostolate by mail and phone, encouraging countless faithful Catholics to do the same. The […]

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Tragedy and Treason at Christ the King Abbey

Monday, May 30, 2011

TRADITIONALIST FORUMS have been abuzz during the past few weeks over the fate of Christ the King Abbey, in Cullman, Alabama, which ended up in the hands of the Novus Ordo church four months after the death of its founder, Benedictine Father Leonard Giardina. How can one account for this betrayal of all the traditional […]

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Salza on Sedevacantism: Same Old Fare

Monday, April 11, 2011

IN 2005 Catholic Family News and The Fatima Crusader published “Opposing the Sedevacantist Enterprise,” a lengthy anti-sedevacantist tract by Christopher Ferrara, a New Jersey lawyer who has also written extensively for The Remnant and other traditionalist publications. Mr. Ferrara’s pompous pronouncements provided an irresistibly juicy target. I responded with Sedevacantism and Mr. Ferrara’s Cardboard Pope […]

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SSPX vs. Diocesan Priest: Baptism and a Larger Issue

Monday, January 24, 2011

THE FOLLOWING post from “Tridentinist” recently appeared on FishEaters, an Internet forum devoted to issues of interest to traditional Catholics: We attend the SSPX and also the Traditional Mass offered by my brother, who is a priest, and has come to offer the Traditional Mass in terms of Summorum Pontificum, though he still also says […]

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The Pentecost Hymn, Ecumenism and the Jews

Monday, May 24, 2010

THE TRADITIONAL Catholic liturgy is an anti-ecumenical minefield. In my 1991 study of the orations (collects, secrets, post-communions) of the Mass of Paul VI, I demonstrated that the post-Vatican II reforms purged from the Missal any language which compromised ecumenism. Hence references in the prayers to notions like the true faith, the true Church, the […]

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The Campaign against SGG Last Year: An Outside Perspective

Saturday, February 20, 2010

NOTE: A few weeks ago, I had an e-mail exchange with a couple who had been following the events here at St. Gertrude the Great late last year. It makes a number of excellent points, and they were kind enough to allow me to publish it. Dear Father, My husband, Nick and I are traditional […]

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General Confession as Social Control

Thursday, January 21, 2010

TRADITIONAL Catholics who live in areas with several traditionalist chapels sometimes move from chapel to chapel, either temporarily or permanently, and for a great variety of reasons. In the Greater Cincinnati area, one of the “options” available is Immaculate Conception Church (IC) in Norwood, operated by Father William Jenkins of Bishop Clarence Kelly’s Society of […]

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