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JMJ

The Truth is the reason for this blog, but having an engineering background I am curious about stats. What follows are some of the stats and my thoughts / interpretations.

First we have the general stats such as number of followers (ie 1), posts (1967) and comments. How do I interpret these headline stats. Well, only one person finds my 'content' sufficiently interesting to actively follow the blog.

In the 10+ years since inception, I have posted 1967 articles - some original some just things I found of interest. There have been 431 comments. After I implemented screening, this slowed down to 1 comment every few years. This doesn't bother me in the least since it took time to screen the comments for spam and comments inappropriate for a religious themed blog. The 'big' number is over 600k views - which is about 60k per year.

Nothing compared to some, but I find it interesting.

The graph below shows the number of view and I'm not certain what triggered the spikes in 2017, but 2019 was (I believe) due to COVID. The 2021/2022 spike is a mystery to me. The key thing is that there is a steady increase in the baseline interrupted only when I would take a break and not post for a few months.

So interest in the blog increases.

The following chart shows the audience over the past seven days and for some reason Singapore is practically neck-and-neck with the US. Wow, so welcome to the blog!

From an overall perspective the US has is the largest audience with Canada a distant second. I was always curious about the Russian readership and suspect it is bots.

In the past seven days the two three articles have included the Novus Ordo, Obedience, a recent post and the lingering curiosity about Fr / Bishop Joseph Pfeiffer. This is actually a secondary article on Fr. Pfeiffer, the original article on the Pfeiffer garnered so much attention that it was skewing the popular posts section of the blog. So I shifted it around - yet it still regularly hits the top ten.

Finally we have the all time more popular posts on the blog. I am impressed and happy that the Thirty Days prayer has retained its top ranking.

So the only real conclusions I can draw are that:

The readership continues to increase.
Timely posts on key events (wars, Voris, etc) tend to do well.
A lot of the readership is on older posts - which I ascribe as people looking for answers.

So there you have it, my curiosity is satisfied, we now return to regular programming.

P^3

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Auctorem Fidei

Can the SSPX be right about the Novus Ordo? Revision: Feb 11, 2013 On another web forum, I was engaged in a rather heated discussion about the documents of Vatican II.

Morning and Evening and other sundry Prayers

+ JMJ Along the theme of P^3 (Prayer, Penance, Patience), and for my own reference ... here is a collection of Morning and Evening prayers from the Ideal Daily Missal along with some additional prayers. In this crisis of the Church, I do not think it is possible to do too much prayer, penance and have patience. P^3

Catholic Culture - The Edgar Schein Model Analysis of the Pre and Post Conciliar Culture

+ JMJ So ... I was thinking ... I've used Edgar Schein's (RIP) organizational cultural model (link ) in my research ... why not apply it in a comparison between the Catholic Organizational Culture - PRE and POST Second Vatican Culture? Of course, this will be from my own perspective, I'm certain that others will think differently. 😁 Also, apologies for a rather long article. Graphic: https://mutomorro.com/edgar-scheins-culture-model/ Below is a quick mapping of the cultural factors that I could think of. Since the Church is vast and composed of millions of Souls, it is necessarily a limited cultural map. Yet, I think it will still be useful to assess what has changed since the Second Vatican Council. Additional Reading: 5 enduring management ideas from MIT Sloan’s Edgar Schein | MIT Sloan Artifacts Artifacts are tangible and observable aspects of the culture being examined. All organizations have them. Walmart has their Walmart chant, Charismatics have their spe

What the heck is a congregation of "Pontifical Right"

+ JMJ In a discussion with a friend the question occurred to me that I didn't actually know was is involved in being a religious order of 'pontifical right'. I had a vague notion that this meant they reported to Rome as opposed to the local diocese. I'm also aware that, according to the accounts I have heard, the Archbishop received 'praise' and the written direction to incardinate priests directly into the SSPX. This is interesting because it implies that the SSPX priests were no longer required to incardinate in the local diocese but in the SSPX. This is something that belongs to an order of 'pontifical right'. Anyway here's some definitions: Di diritto pontificio is the Italian term for “of pontifical right” . It is given to the ecclesiastical institutions (the religious and secular institutes, societies of apostolic life) either created by the Holy See or approved by it with the formal decree, known by its Latin name, Decretu

Comparision of the Tridentine, Cranmer and Novus Ordo Masses

+ JMJ I downloaded the comparison that was linked in the previous article on the mass (here) . ... a very good reference! P^3 From: Whispers of Restoration (available at this link) . CHARTING LITURGICAL CHANGE Comparing the 1962 Ordinary of the Roman Mass to changes made during the Anglican Schism; Compared in turn to changes adopted in the creation of Pope Paul VI’s Mass in 1969 The chart on the reverse is a concise comparison of certain ritual differences between three historical rites for the celebration of the Catholic Mass Vetus Ordo: “Old Order,” the Roman Rite of Mass as contained in the 1962 Missal, often referred to as the “Traditional Latin Mass.”The Ordinary of this Mass is that of Pope St. Pius V (1570) following the Council of Trent (1545-63), hence the occasional moniker “Tridentine Mass.” However, Trent only consolidated and codified the Roman Rite already in use at that time; its essential form dates to Pope St. Gregory the Great (+604), in whose time the R

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