This One Liturgical Practice Would Make a Huge Difference in Reverence...

Shepherds lead the flock to heaven's door ad orientem.

...and it would be celebrating Mass in the ordinary form as it was ALWAYS meant to be!

Vatican liturgy chief urges priests to celebrate Mass facing east

"In an interview with the French Catholic magazine Famille Chrétienne, Cardinal Robert Sarah said that the Second Vatican Council did not require priests to celebrate Mass facing the people. 

"This way of celebrating Mass, he said, was 'a possibility, but not an obligation'.
Readers and listeners should face each other during the Liturgy of the Word, he said. 

Sixth Bishop Passed Up CCHD Collection

Bishop Edward J. Slattery of Tulsa, OK, is the sixth bishop who declined to support the CCHD collection this year. While the bishop held a collection that Sunday the funds were reserved for self-help projects within the diocese. Read more here. The bishops boycotting the collection included:

Bishop Robert J. Baker - Birmingham, Alabama LSN

Bishop John O. Barres - Allentown, Pennsylvania LSN

Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz - Lincoln, Nebraska LSN

Bishop Victor Galeone - St. Augustine, Florida Statement LSN

Bishop Robert C. Morlino - Madison, Wisconsin Statement LSN

Bishop Edward J. Slattery - Tulsa, Oklahoma