I have been informed by a reader that a papal indult is required for a parish priest to wear a zuchetto. Can this be true? No one need worry. I don’t want to wear a purple or red or white one. I’m happy for bishops and cardinals and the pope to have those colors. I want a nice simple black one. Is it true, that if I find a really nice zuchetto I may not wear it? My informant said... Read more
Yes, that’s just the sort of hat I’m looking for, and you’re right, that’s famous convert Alec (Obi Wan) Guiness as Fr Brown. Read more
I’m really pleased with my biretta, and wonder where I can get a nice black zuchetto and one of those wide brimmed, low crowned hats like Chesterton’s Fr Brown used to wear. Any ideas? Read more
Fr. Newman’s final letter explaining ad orientem celebration of the Mass. Read more
For all you biretta spotters out there… Read more
As an Evangelical I always heard people talking about the importance of a ‘personal relationship with Jesus’. The problem is, no one ever said what this actually meant. I wanted to know, what exactly is a ‘personal relationship with Jesus.’? I mean, what happens? How do you know you have a personal relationship with Jesus? What did it consist of? I didn’t ask these questions out of cynicism, doubt or mockery, but because I really wanted such a wonderful thing.... Read more
Here’s my latest article for National Catholic Register. Just a few words of encouragement for Lent. Read more
Roving Medievalist links here to a BBC news story about the exhumation of Padre Pio’s body. There is a link through to a BBC video about it as well. Digging up saints’ bodies. It all so Catholic. It’s easy to make fun of such things if you’re not Catholic, but it’s a reminder that we take the physical aspect of life seriously. We’re interested in the saints’ bodies. We’re interested in relics. If the saints’ sanctification was real, then it... Read more
This article shows that the famous ‘autobiography’ about monstrous Irish nuns running sweat shop laundries in Ireland is pure fiction. Read more
Fr. Dwight Longenecker
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