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Above: the Immaculata Church in St. Marys, Kansas, built and staffed by the SSPX. Editor’s note: this is our final 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…
Back in 2017, before the covidious cloud descended like madness, the world might have seemed a saner and simpler place. It wasn’t. It was the same dark and dismal place it is today, a vale of tears and a land of exile, with only the same glimmers of lifegiving grace to lighten the load and…
Above: La Conversión de San Pablo by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682). Today is Day 8 of the Octave of Christian Unity. Traditional Prayer for the Octave: A plenary indulgence is granted to the faithful who “participate in some of the services during the Week of Christian Unity and assist at the closing of this same…
Traditionalism and its Dangers part III Read Part I: Hermeneutics of Rupture and the Extremes Read Part II: Coming to terms with Vatican II Peter Kwasniewski has certainly become one of the most visible and vocal promoters of a full return to the traditional liturgy, while at the same time furnishing trenchant critiques of the…
Because of the vagaries of your planet’s Moon, toward the end of this liturgical year and before the beginning of the next Advent, we will not have Remaining Sundays after Epiphany to fill in the calendrical gaps. This year, we sail straight through the Sundays after Pentecost all the way to the 24th and Last…
Read part I The Coetus: Trad Godfathers at Vatican II When the progressives won their first procedural victory at Vatican II on November 21, 1962 (John XXIII withdrew the schema on Revelation that had been prepared before the council), a conservative resistance formed around Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre throughout the rest of that first conciliar session….
We’re just a few days into President Trump’s second term and already we can say this is the best presidential term of the 21st century. It’s enough to make this political cynic giddy with excitement for what the next four years hold. My political cynicism is deep and is based on long years of disappointment…
Photo by Snowscat on Unsplash Today is Day 7 of the Octave of Christian Unity. Traditional Prayer for the Octave: A plenary indulgence is granted to the faithful who “participate in some of the services during the Week of Christian Unity and assist at the closing of this same week.” A partial indulgence is granted…
I am as happy as the next red-blooded male that Donald Trump is back in the White House. Although I am an outsider, I have watched with joy as the Donald has signed a zillion Executive Orders that are dismantling the Woke Industrial Complex in real time. I must admit that, as a northern neighbor,…
In the immediate aftermath of the Council of Trent, Catholic spirituality, in both theory and practice, reached a height never reached before since the early Church. Founded on the Council of Trent, this new Catholic spirituality was inspired and guided by such great saints as St. Charles Borromeo, St. Robert Bellarmine, St. Francis de Sales,…
