We stand now nine Sundays out from Easter, poised at a hinge in the liturgical year where memory, expectation, and discipline converge. Context is decisive. The Church does not move through time as a mere sequence of dates but as a pedagogy of salvation, a slow schooling of the soul by repetition, anticipation, and restraint….

Above: Peleș Castle, built by the Catholic King Carol I of Romania 1873-1914. The series on the “Trad Movement” proposed by Mr. Timothy Flanders inspired me to write a few articles about authors who should be included on the list of mandatory readings. Hopefully, these articles will be released in the near future. Until then,…

Earlier this month, in his State of the World address to ambassadors, Pope Leo XIV warned that “a new Orwellian-style language is developing.” He added that “freedom of speech and expression is guaranteed precisely by the certainty of language and the fact that every term is anchored in the truth.” The pope’s placing of the…