Ecclesiastical bibs and bobs

• The Bovina Bloviator on Corpus Christi Church in Manhattan, the kind of liberals who could be friends. Very Anglican (why Thomas Day and John Cooney wrote that some New Yorkers hated it). Must have been marvellous with the Roman Mass: a showplace of the legitimate liturgical movement coupled as it often was with social-justice work/Catholic Action.
• Fr Longenecker: the Catholic revival in the Roman communion proceeds and a priest on ad orientem.
• Fr Hunwicke on what seems his speciality in English history: the Catholic Anglican martyrs of 1549.
• As part of this very worthwhile comments thread (which hasn’t needed any input from me — this started it) Dr Tighe has a little on Catholic survivals in the 1500s English Church even after Elizabeth I forced Protestantism on it in 1559, some lasting into the 1580s, including using Latin in Ireland, where many still didn’t speak English as was the case then in Devon and Cornwall.
• Albion Land, the founder of the blog The Continuum, is looking into becoming Orthodox.
• I’m sure this is a fine place but oh, my eyes: what church websites used to look like. I made mistakes early on in this medium too.
• Arturo on the Mexican cult of Holy Death (Santa Muerte): Here is the left-over shell of folk Catholicism sprinkled heavily with New Age and Kardecist ideas ready for the consumption of the masses. Lots of skeletons. Instead of recipes for a low-fat lasagna, it has lots of recipes for casting spells to get more money, to get a love-interest to take notice of you, or even to get your kid to do better in school. (I will have to wait for the special edition where they show you how to use the skeleton spirit to put curses on people. Maybe it’s like the SI Swimsuit Issue.) My pet thesis is it was a result of the secularization of culture that emerges after the Second Vatican Council. I have never been convinced that anything now in Mexican culture is a “pagan survival of the past”. Indeed, such ideas are often the result of “educated” prejudices against people in Latin America in which these peoples have never really been Christian. Now with the Church being less enchanted with the enchanted world, the void that has been created has been filled with followers of Santa Muerte.
• The story of German national RC parishes in America from Ernst. What’s a national parish?