Tag: Papal

  • Papal Responses to the Emergence of the TLM Movement

    The Movement to Return to the Tridentine Liturgy Because of the rather chaotic manner in which the liturgical reform was implemented, and particularly because of deviations and irregularities perpetrated by some priests, the desire gradually grew among some priests and faithful to return to Tridentine Mass (often called the Traditional

  • Papal Condemnation of the Doctrine of Discovery

    Pope Francis’s recent pilgrimage of penance to the First Nations of Canada has renewed calls in some quarters for him to formally revoke or rescind the “doctrine of discovery.”[1] This has left a lot of Christians, theologians among them, asking, “what is this ‘doctrine of discovery’ and why have I never