Fr Mauro Gagliardi, lecturer at the Pontifical Athenaeum "Regina Apostolorum", who was appointed Consultor to the Office of Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff last September (see an excerpt of a Zenit interview with him from January here), has an important piece in today's edition of the...

One of our readers thinks it would be helpful, and time-saving, to provide a collection of quotations from then-Cardinal Ratzinger on the subject of orientation in liturgical prayer. With gratitude to Michael Kowalewski, here it is: Despite all the variations in practice that have taken place far in...

Fr John Zuhlsdorf of the "What Does the Prayer Really Say" blog has some very encouraging news about the bishop of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Most Rev. Edward Slattery. According to the news bulletin of Holy Family Cathedral, Tulsa, Okla., the bishop is going to celebrate the 10 a.m. Mass at the ad orientem d...