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Editor’s note: today we begin a weekly serialisation of Dr. Edward Schaefer’s new book A Simple Man’s Case for Tradition. This book is an excellent introduction to Traditionalism and provides an easy way for Trads to introduce the movement to fellow Catholics who are seeking deeper answers to today’s questions. Proceeds from the book sale…
We have come to that time of year in which Holy Church has to “mind the gap”, as it were. Because of the vagaries of the moon in relation to Spring, and therefore when Easter falls, there are often not quite enough formularies for Sundays after Pentecost to get through to the final green Sunday…
The great feast of All Saints offers us the chance to dwell on two striking passages from Sacred Scripture: the Epistle being taken from the Apocalypse, and the Gospel of the sermon on the mount, regarding the beatitudes. The Church calls on Her members in the Church Militant to set aside this particular day to…
In the States, Americans love their unhealthy, disgusting fast food from McDonald’s, etc. But we also love a good, healthy and wholesome burger on the grill, celebrating the Fourth of July or the baseball game or whatever. In Michigan, we love hunting deer and thus we have the venison burger, which is a wonderful thing…
Thomas Edward Lawrence, the Oxford archeologist who became the famous “Lawrence of Arabia,” wrote a narrative of his adventures participating in the Arab revolt against the Turks during World War I. At an important point in the Arab revolt, Lawrence was given the opportunity to be of great influence in the war. He was as…
One of the great gifts of the Trump Era is that we have come to know the institutions we grew up trusting are corrupt. FBI, corrupt. CIA, corrupt. Judiciary, corrupt. Not that we grew up knowing the NIH or the CDC, but we know now they are corrupt, too. We knew the media and the…
Amplified by the words and actions of Pope Francis, the crisis within the Church in recent decades represents, according to many authors from conservative and traditional Catholic circles, an unprecedented phenomenon in history. Even Pope John Paul II, who unfortunately embodies certain well-known neo-modernist tendencies, was forced to acknowledge in his exhortation Ecclesia in Europa…
I am now back in New England on a short visit from Austria, and Halloween has been in the air since early October. In many ways New England is the modern epicentre of the holiday. When I was a boy, it was most definitely a children’s holiday, and in terms of sales a pale second…
Perhaps, as the election approaches and the news becomes saturated with grim predictions and shrill voices, we’re beginning to feel that our nation’s destiny is sliding more and more out of control, giving way to feelings of anxiety and tension, or even terror. From a biblical perspective, this state of affairs—our being helpless before the…
Now that the proverbial cat is conclusively out of the bag, and all the animal experts have determined that the damn thing is feral, why doesn’t somebody just put it out of its misery? Not to mention the misery of so many victimized by its vicious bite. Don’t we all deserve a clean break from…
