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When the twentieth-century liturgical reformers shuffled, eliminated, and renamed Catholic feast days, they weakened the already increasingly frail connection between faith and culture. The results have reduced the influence of the Church in culture and, as a result, in the population; culture provides, after all, a living connection to the Faith for many. One example…
We hear a lot these days about “the miracles of modern medicine.” But, when it comes to true miracle cures, the old ones are still often the best. I was pleased to hear a dead parishioner has just been recognized by my local archbishop, the Most Reverend Malcolm McMahon, as the first English Catholic to…
His Eminence Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago has recently written a letter in his archdiocesan publication discouraging the practice of kneeling for the reception of Holy Communion. Now, I state straightaway that I am not here to encourage anyone to be disrespectful to their ordinary, and it is not my place to theorize on motives….
When the headline “Bishop Tissier has passed” flashed across my screen, it instantly felt as if a large hole was carved not just in my heart, but into the entire traditional Catholic world. The fact I could experience this as a young adult woman who had never even met him confirms how integral his presence…
It’s a longstanding Protestant trope that “Catholics don’t read the Bible.” To be fair, there is some truth in this. Throughout much of Church history, most Catholics did not read the Bible, simply because most people couldn’t read. Widespread illiteracy and the massive costs of producing a Bible before the advent of the printing press…
Back when Oprah was culturally relevant and had an interesting show, she once said that “you can have it all, but not at the same time.” Who knew such a lefty feminist would get something so right and, all these years later, some of us would still be peddling something so wrong. At great risk…
Nine hundred years ago, on either December 13th or 14th, 1124, Pope Callixtus II, whose original name was Guido, Count of Burgundy, passed away in Rome. Guido had ascended to the Archbishopric of Vienne in 1088, situated in southern France. Notably, in September 1112, he convened a significant gathering of French bishops in Vienne. This…
Whether we are Western Latin Catholics or Eastern Catholics we ought to be interested in what our forebears did in Rome for these Sundays of Advent. Our traditions run deep. We know better who we are by knowing who they were. On this 3rd Sunday of Advent the Roman Station is at St. Peter’s on…
Editor’s note: we continue our 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 also…
This question, asked by the future Pope Benedict XVI, is purely rhetorical. The answer is that the Church cannot continue to transform and humanize the world if she dispenses with the beauty of the liturgy. “Without this,” Cardinal Ratzinger continued, “the world will become the first circle of hell.” Restoring the beauty of the liturgy…
