
About this episode
Canon Benjamin Norman, ICKSP currently serves as Representative of the Institute of Christ the King at St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church in Oakland, California. He was ordained in 2018. In Today's Show:
- How are priestly ordinations conducted in the extraordinary form?
- When and where should Extreme Unction be considered? Has modernism destroyed it?
- Why is Our Lord called the Sun of Justice?
- Where would you recommend ordering a cassock from?
- What was God doing before creating the Earth? Why did he decide at that specific moment and time to only create the Earth?
- Is it sinful to wear makeup?
- If a priest leaves the priesthood and his faculties were removed, is he still allowed to Anoint the Sick?
- I had never thought about praying to our church's guardian angel. What are your thoughts on this concept?
- Why are there so many rites? Why do we not just have one rite and one way of worshiping?
- What are your recommended books on liturgy? (See Show Resources)
- Is the book of Enoch somewhat credible?
- Is the TLM "superior" to or better than the Novus Ordo?
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