All Saints Parish Homilies and News

By Richard Bauman published in The Catholic Yearbook It's called the Grasshopper Chapel, but that isn't its real name. When first built, it was Maria Hilf, German for "Mary's Help." Now, it is officially titled "Assumption Chapel," but still it retains the original nickname, in Cold Spring, Minnesota.  Assumption Chapel was dedicated on August 15, 1877 It was first built in 1877, in honor of the Blessed Mother and in petition to her for relief from hordes of crop-devouring grasshoppers that, for five consecutive summers, had devastated the farmlands around Cold Spring, Minnesota. The plague of insects started in the middle of June 1873. Farmers in southwestern Minnesota watched what looked like a dark storm cloud moving toward them from the west. But it wasn't a rain-bearing cloud. It was a cloud of millions of hunger-frenzied Rocky Mountain locusts. It took just a few hours for the grasshoppers to turn fields of waist-high grass, wheat, and other cr...

Salvatore Joseph Cordileone (born June 5, 1956) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church and the archbishop of Archdiocese of San Francisco in California since 2012. He previously served as bishop of the Diocese of Oakland in California from 2009 to 2012 and as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of San Diego in California from 2002 to 2009.  A traditional theologian, he is known for his willingness to celebrate Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite (also known as Tridentine Mass ). IOW the "Traditional Latin Mass" T.L.M. - the celebration of the Mass by pre-Vatican II Catholics.  What’s Behind the Fight Between Pope Francis and the Latin Mass Movement? The discord has become a stand-in for conflicts over the decline in Catholics’ participation in Mass, over the progressive orientation of Francis’s pontificate, and over Vatican II itself.  An echo report published in The New Yorker by Paul Elie. In January 15, 2022, the Catholic archbishop...