Category: Traditional Catholic Blog

In recent years, I have been surprised to find that progressive modernists, hyper-papalist conservatives, and sedevacantists support similar positions when it comes to interpreting the teachings of the Pastor Aeternus constitution (1870) concerning the infallibility of the Pope. Of course, their reasons are different. And yet, they support the interpretation that, besides being infallible… Source…

The sign above is affixed to the locker room doors at Virginia’s Fairfax County Recreational Centers. I see it every time I go swimming. I just don’t know what it means. In an earlier, more innocent age, it probably meant that the men’s locker room was for boys and men and the women’s locker room…

“My precious” is not what I call my wedding ring, but it has become especially redolent since my wife Joan was incarcerated a year ago. Her peaceful, prayerful effort to stop a late-term abortionist in Washington, D.C., garnered her and nine others unjust condemnations and prosecutions from the Biden-Harris Department of Justice. On the feast…

Above: the “Bruckner Organ” in Sankt Florian. On September 4, 1824, Anton Bruckner, a composer deeply influenced by the Catholic faith and exhibiting a mysticism reminiscent of great medieval thinkers, was born. His language found expression through the late 19th-century symphonic orchestra. Hailing from a modest peasant background in Austria, Bruckner’s musical journey began at…

“Marriage is a duel to the death,” said G.K. Chesterton, “which no man of honour should decline.” Marriage fully lived is, to borrow a form of battle uglier than dueling, mutual, assured destruction. But it doesn’t destroy persons and things, it destroys ego, pride, and selfishness. Oh, happy war that ends in both sides winning….

On August 23, 2024, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced, in his address to the nation, that he would be suspending his presidential bid to endorse President Donald J. Trump. RFK Jr. declared that while his name would no longer be on the ballot in crucial swing states, voters would still be able to cast ballots…

Remember when everybody was sure that there was a new Latin Mass suppression coming down the pike from The Dictator Pope and his mercy for the margins? That came from a credible rumour published by our friends at Rorate back on June 17th. While that was brewing, Viganò got the axe from the Vatican, and…

Before the heresy of Quietism, Systematic Theology—which taught how to come to know God with the mind—and Mystical Theology—which taught how to come to love God with the heart—were complementary to each other. After the condemnation of Quietism, however, Mystical Theology mostly disappeared. As the historian Msgr. Philip Hughes pointed out, it was replaced by…

Recently, a friend expressed his frustration with the Justice for Survivors Act signed in the California legislature in 2023. This Act ends the civil statute of limitations for minors who have experienced sexual abuse. While my friend vehemently agrees that abusers ought to get their reckoning, he took issue with the preponderance of claims related…

This year’s presidential campaign recalls a criticism Benjamin Disraeli said about some of his fellow Tories on the issue of the Corn Laws. When a member of Parliament advocated for a position the opposite of his party’s traditional stance, Disraeli said, “The right honorable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes….