Defending Monarchy in an American Election Year
A constitutional monarch’s delegation of executive power does not diminish, but rather underlines, his role as a symbol of God’s rule.
When Non-Catholics Tried to Save the Latin Mass
Many of these individuals are not even Catholics; some were quite out of sympathy with the Church.
Re-Christianising England: Walsingham & Sacred Geography
To make a pilgrimage in post-Christian England is to reassert our country’s sacred geography.
Children at Mass: Practical Considerations
Even small children can unite themselves to the action of the Mass, in ways they could not articulate, when they glimpse the dignity of an activity clearly not directed to anything merely human.
How to Obey the Church
This idea is echoed by the Memoriale Domini, the 1969 Instruction forbidding (with the inevitable exceptions) the reception of Holy Communion in the Hand.
Cardinal Roche on the Vatican II Rupture
I find myself, here, and not for the first time, defending the words of the Second Vatican Council against an interpretation which would impute to them theological novelties incompatible with the perennial teaching of the Church.
The Schismatic Trads Were Right? Francis’ New Rescript on the TLM
We have now heard from the Holy See in unambiguous terms that the integration into parish life of Catholics attached to the older Missal is a thoroughly bad thing. The ones with a schismatic mentality, whatever that was supposed to mean, are the good ones: or at least the less bad ones.
International TLM Lay Group Appeals to All Catholics of Good Will
What we do know is that we are justly afflicted for our sins, in all the suffering which God permits to fall upon us, and that God is above all factionalism and ideology.
Why British and Commonwealth Catholics Venerate their Protestant Monarch
Above: then Prince Charles, now the ascended King Charles III, kisses the hand of his mother, her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Photo credit MSN. The spectacle is undeniably impressive, though predictable and in part long-planned. Even those whose own values do not align with the underlying message can but stand in awe, in fact,…
Pope Francis’ Liturgical Longing
Desiderio desideravi: “with desire have I desired,” Our Lord said to His Disciples before the Last Supper, “to eat this Pasch with you.” The quaint Latin phrase is a literal translation of the Greek of the Gospels (Luke 22:15; Matthew 13:14), but it is no less quaint in Greek. It is in fact an expression…
Obedience, Disobedience, and Rash Obedience: a Virtue in a time of Crisis
There has long been a strange asymmetry between conservatives and progressives in the Catholic Church. Theological conservatives—priests and bishops as well as lay people—have prided themselves on their obedience, and progressives have flaunted their disobedience. To give the most extreme examples, progressive bishops would make their chums laugh by talking about how they had tossed…
