RIP Fr. Brannan: The importance of living links

My parish just lost one of its living links to our pre-conciliar culture. One of our supply priests, Fr. Patrick Brannan, S.J., who had been celebrating the traditional Mass again for Philadelphia since the indult years, over 25 years ago, has died. Glad he got to live to see Benedict XVI's pontificate with Summorum Pontificum, the reform of the English Novus Ordo, and thriving communities such