Editor’s note: this review was first published in The Latin Mass: The Journal of Catholic Culture and Tradition. We thank our allies at this traditional publication for their kind permission to reprint here. How can faithful Catholics navigate the doctrinal confusion of the present time? At one level, the answer is simple: Keep the Faith. On … Read more
Above: Canossa, Italy, where Emperor Henry IV did penance before Pope Gregory VII. Public Domain. From Hypothetical Speculation to Fearful Reality In light of the unprecedented centralization of authority under the Francis pontificate, discussions on the extent of papal power take on a fresh urgency. The question is not so much on the pope’s doctrinal … Read more
We are at very curious time in ecclesiastical history. On the one hand, the shaky ecclesiology of the Orthodox Churches, already shaken further when Constantinople and Moscow excommunicated each other over the status of Ukrainian Orthodoxy, has received another blow when the section of the latter body that had given its allegiance to Moscow broke … Read more
“Pius XII refashioned the heart of the Roman rite’s year; Paul VI replaced the entire Roman rite with a modern rite.”
“All is lost!” All is not lost.
Pope Pius broke about fifteen centuries of Tradition, an action which received criticism as “formalising the separation of Church and state.”
No bishop needs to ask permission to confirm his brethren (even the Pope!) in the faith which they received at their first communion.
Notice the gnostic angle of the new head of the Office Formerly Known as Holy.
The paradox between “You are Peter” and “Get behind me, Satan,” has not been resolved in the Tradition.
Our contributing editor has produced a lecture series on the Magisterium.
Let’s not forget, however, that they are trying to rebuild an entire world that has been lost, or rather, bombed into smithereens.
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