Ignorant of their own rite and what was deemed normative... the commentators over at Pray Tell with respect to sung liturgy. What is the blog and the head blogger doing to dispel the ignorance? Apparently little.

Why Chant is Good for Children by Timothy P. O’Malley

NLM: Historical Recreation of a 15th Century Mass by Gregory DiPippo

A Conference with a Focus on the West?

A Moderate?

The standard framing of any practical issue... conservative, progressive, moderate... as if moderate were the mean between two (vicious) extremes.

Communion of Love: Thomas Merton and Liturgical Reform by Gregory K. Hillis

Merton was probably right about active participation (and its relation to scale); but did he have any clue about what was coming with respect to changes in prayers and texts?

Baptism

Henri de Lubac

The New Creation

Contemporary Orthodox Elders

Fr. Amorth Has Passed Away

CWR Dispatch: Why the death of Fr. Gabriel Amorth is such a loss for the Church
We need men who fear nothing except God standing up against the deconstructionists and dissenters who claim that all that happened prior to 1965 in the Church was an embarrassment.
September 20, 2016 01:01 EST
Brian O'Neel

The Boston Pilot
CNA
Aleteia

Whom to Follow?

The Chief "Liturgist"

An OK Icon

The Spirit of Assisi?

Chiesa: With Bergoglio the “Spirit of Assisi” Triumphs. But Ratzinger Is Ruining the Party
Francis reruns the encounter with men of all religions inaugurated by John Paul II thirty years ago. But the objections of the cardinal prefect of doctrine back then are still alive. And even more radical

The Nativity of the Mother of God...

Something More Sensible

From Fr. Anthony Ruff, OSB: Gregorian Melodies with Vernacular Hymn Texts: A Proposal

I wouldn't reject every proposed liturgical reform issuing from his keyboard. As for his credibility as an authority though...

Related: Another Gregorian hymn suggestion

The State of RCIA in the US?

Pray Tell: Non Solum: RCIA in Practice

Of Limited Rhetorical Value

Unlikely to change minds in Opus Dei.

NLM: Reclaiming St. Josemaría Escrivá for the New Liturgical Movement by Peter Kwasniewski

John O'Malley, Again

This time on Vatican II.

The Jesus Prayer

How many pre-Christian Semitic cultures had the custom of veiling prepubescent girls in addition to women? (What was the rationale?) Or is this a custom found only inIslamic societies?