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Pioneer of the Latin Mass Movement: Howard Walsh, RIP

There is no layman on the face of earth who did more to advance the cause of the traditional Catholic faith than Howard. Howard was not just one of the pioneers of the traditionalist movement that began in the 1970s in response to the ecclesial catastrophe of the “springtime” of Vatican II. Without any public presence whatsoever, which he consistently shunned, Howard was nothing less than an engine of the entire movement, particularly where it concerned the liturgical restoration that culminated in Summorum Pontificum.

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The Valley of Thoughts and Prayers

This was a far cry from last June when heated debates filled the Supreme Court that ruled how a Washington state high-school football coach was wrongly fired for praying after games with his team.

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Why is God, Our Loving Father, Permitting the Worsening Crisis in the Church and World?

“The Lord is our Father, and as Father He punishes us so that we understand our faults, repent of them, and change our lives. Deus, qui culpa offenderis, p œ nitentia placaris, says a prayer of Lent: O God, who is offended by guilt and appeased by penance. Wherever there is guilt, wherever the Majesty of God is infinitely offended, there is the need of a punishment. Flagella tuæ iracundi æ, quæ pro peccatis nostri meremur: the scourges of Your indignation, which we merit because of our sins – just as so often happened to the people of Israel.”

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The Good Cop Files: Forming Men for the Aftermath

But Matt left the NYPD in September 2022 over the covid vaccine mandate. And “Charles Cadenas” is a pseudonym. Speaking to The Remnant about the realities of life as a policeman in New York could be too much for some people in positions of authority to tolerate, so “Charles,” a good cop, requested anonymity for this interview.

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A Blessing on the Via del Moro; A Scandal at St. Peter’s

One evening, after dinner in that memorable year of 1995, my wife Anne, a close friend of ours, Rev. Dr. Richard Munkelt, who was then studying at the Angelicum and is now the Chaplain of the Roman Forum, our infant son Nicholas, and I were chatting outside Mario’s while I smoked my usual heady Antico Toscano. “Look”, my friend said: “here comes Cardinal Ratzinger.” Sure enough, up the Via del Moro he strolled, I believe with the then Fr. Gänswein, probably after his own meal, but a bit of a distance from the German restaurant that he so much appreciated near the Vatican. (“I would not be able to come here any more”, Cardinal Ratzinger sadly lamented to its owner, when the latter asked him what would happen should he be elected pope).

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