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Footnotes
- Thomas Reese, “Why I Hate the old Latin Mass: A Confession,” https://religionnews.com/2026/08/25/why-i-hate-the-old-latin-mass/.
- Mass with candomblé rites at the church of Our Lady of the Rosary in Pelourinho, Salvador—Bahia, Brazil, https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xmCWNaA_Swo
- Pagan Aztec dance in mass https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6HAFCn82TcU; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpJzE-7GBjU, Dancing at The Mass with Bishop-Africa, Mozambique, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ivQ8tQdysE&list=RD4ivQ8tQdysE&start_radio=1; The Zairean Rite is a Congolese Catholic liturgy blending African traditions, https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Rs3Yg3RfZFI.
- “All Hearts Together: A Mass for the LGBTQ+ Community December 2, 2024 @ 7:00 pm-9:00 pm Presider: Fr. Bryan Massingale, Join us for a special Mass in observance of World AIDS Day. Let’s come together in faith and solidarity, lifting up the LGBTQ+ community and all affected by HIV/AIDS. https://ignatius.nyc/event/all-hearts-together-a-mass-for-the-lgbtq-community/; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lacn-Iun37A .
- “All Hearts Together: A Mass for the LGBTQ+ Community. December 2, 2024 @ 7:00 pm-9:00 pm.Presider: Fr. Bryan Massingale, Join us for a special Mass in observance of World AIDS Day. Let’s come together in faith and solidarity, lifting up the LGBTQ+ community and all affected by HIV/AIDS. https://ignatius.nyc/event/all-hearts-together-a-mass-for-the-lgbtq-community/; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lacn-Iun37A
- Werke, t. XV, p. 774, 18, apud Dictionnaires de Théologie Catholique, J. Paquier, Luther, col. 1170.
- See McHugh, John. “Lutheranism.” The Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. 9. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09458a.htm
- Fred Sanders “Sin Boldly!” https://scriptoriumdaily.com/sin-boldly/
- Martin Luther, The Babylonian Captivity of the Church–A prelude, 1520, Jesus, https://www.lutherdansk.dk/Web-babylonian%20Captivitate/Martin%20Luther.htm#_Toc58730606, n. 2.37.
- See McHugh, Lutheranism, op. cit.
- General Council of Trent: Twenty-Second Session, https://www.papalencyclicals.net/councils/trent/twenty-second-session.htm
- All quotations in this article (unless another source is mentioned) use the 1905 version of Father F. X. Schouppe’s Purgatory, published in Great Britain by Burns, Oates and Washbourne, Ltd. It is in the public domain and available through the Internet Archive. The spellings of certain words were Americanized by the author.
- https://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0187-31802017000200063
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truffle
- https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/919486
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24384788/