A Journey Through the three Kingdoms
It is amazing how much of the American psyche is bound up with the nations of the British Isles – the traditional “Three Kingdoms” of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
An Eighth Sacrament?
He would draw it from the scabbard and point it at all four directions in turn, to show his willingness to defend Church and people from all foes.
Ukraine and the Casualty of Truth
Above: Potocki Mausoleum Chapel in Pechera, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine. Public Domain. AGAINST TWO EVILS The death of Elizabeth II and accession of Charles III have pushed the Ukrainian War off the front page – as indeed that conflict has done for COVID. While this is a doubtless a tribute to the presumed length of the public’s…
Hyperpapalism and the Body Politic
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…
The Emperor of the Church and the Worldwide Devotion to Blessed Karl
Photo: Emperor Karl visiting the residents of Cortina D’Ampezzo, c. 1917. He was known by all during the war (especially his troops) to visit and comfort his people in their suffering. Editor’s note: as we announced a few weeks ago on the centenary of Blessed Emperor Karl’s birthday into heaven, we have chosen this great…
Trad Response to “A Manifesto of the New Traditionalism”
On December 22, 2021, a manifesto appeared online which is worth engaging with seriously. Entitled A Manifesto of the New Traditionalism (MNT), it was signed initially and subsequently by some very reputable Catholic scholars; it is worth reading in its entirety. Obviously offered in a sincere spirit with a desire to benefit the Church, there…
Santa Claus: Evil Elf or Holy Trad?
Once again the Christmas war is getting ready to break out. By that I do not mean the perennial struggle over Holiday versus Christmas which annually afflicts the entire body politic (at least in the United States), but a conflict peculiar to Traditional Catholics. By that, I mean the question regarding the synthetic mythology surrounding…
Make Halloween Catholic Again
It is once again that time of year that the late Ray Bradbury famously dubbed “the October Country.” The waning of the year brings to more temperate regions the closure of harvest, the falling leaves, and the preparation for the succession of holidays that close and open each year in every country. Just as regularly…
What is Christendom?
As I write these words on September 18, 2021, it is 60 years to the day that the United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld was killed in a plane crash en route to a peace conference intended to end what was then a bloody conflict in the Congo. Given what the United Nations have become…