Sir Arnold Lunn on the Latin Mass:

"If it is so," he said, arguing along with Evelyn Waugh and others for one (1) Latin Mass each Sunday in the larger churches, "that the Latin Mass is only for the educated few, surely Mother Church in all her charity can find a little place even for the educated few?"

- - From "The End of the Latin Mass," by William F. Buckley, Nov. 10, 1967

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More recently, Cardinal Danneels on the Latin Mass, via St. Blog's own Todd Flowerday:

“When you have a parish Mass, you shouldn’t do it in Latin. You can do it perhaps for more intellectual people who have a certain culture, but I think it is very exceptional.”

Progress!

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Ave Maria University is backing off plans for a great greenhouse of a church, and university officials are in full spin mode.

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Hocus Pocus: Did the magician's saying really derive from the Catholic Mass? Word of the Day * Online Etymology * Word Detective (item 14) * Museum of Hoaxes * Cecil Adams

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Hotch Potch: A term evoked by the Novus Ordo, according this Latin Mass Society essayist.

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The first Tridentine Mass celebrated in the Phoenix Diocese reportedly drew more than 1,300.

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Just as the anti-popery sites tend to have the best images of historic Babylonian-scale papal splendor, the sedevacantists are the ones to see for pics of Catholic liturgical horrors, such as the Daktari-style nave altar, the heated baptismal font, the colorful dance at a recent papal youth-Mass, and the results of an apparent miscue at a Communion wafer bakery.

Well, this goes without saying.

(Tinfoil biretta tip: Mark Shea)

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Meantime, back in full communion, St. Elizabeth of Hungary Parish in Acton, Mass., maintains a gallery of church renovation projects that is rather like a Hollywood Guide to the Stars' Homes for the Vosko-Friendly.

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For a smells-and-bells restorative, Anglo-Catholic Central offers links to Anglo-Catholic parishes across the globe.