For months since the feast of the apparition of St. Michael, his election day, Pope Leo has been indirectly addressing the New Iconoclasm, which is one of the non-negotiables of the Trad movement: Pope Leo has acted agianst the New Iconoclasm indirectly by Many of our readers by now have seen multiple videos of his…

Above: Union dead after the Battle of Gettysburg, Gettysburg, PA, 1863. Photo by Alexander Gardner (Library of Congress). The past week or two has been filled with horrible news in America. On August 22, 2025, in Charlotte, North Carolina, twenty-three year old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska was stabbed to death on the public transit; it…

I remember my Catholic-school class praying for President John Kennedy the day he was shot in 1963. The next year, there were riots in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, just 35-minutes (17 miles) from my home bordering that borough. More riots in Harlem followed. Major uprisings trailed in cities like Watts (Los Angeles) in 1965. Then, in the…

America has long been known as an “experiment” in self-government. Writing to Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay in 1790, George Washington reflected on the meaning of the new Constitution: “The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment, for promoting human happiness, by reasonable compact, in civil Society” (emphasis added). Note he said…