Dr. Lee Fratantuono finished degrees in Classics at Holy Cross, Boston College, and Fordham. He has authored over a dozen books and some sixty articles on Greek and Latin literature and Roman history, including commentaries on books of Virgil, Ovid, and Tacitus, and monographs on Lucretius and Lucan.
Author: Lee Fratantuono, PhD
Hidden Origins of Traditionis Custodes: Grillo and Francis’s Self-Abrogation
The Forgotten Francis Decrees On the twenty-second of February, 2020. The Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter. Quo magis. Cum sanctissima. Documents of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, released with the approval of the Supreme Pontiff …
The Bugnini Construction Company Builds Liturgical Fairy Tales
Editor’s note: see our Erasmus disclaimer. As we approach fifty days after the motu proprio, it is crucial to repeat this fundamental point: the document is founded on a falsehood so glaring and intellectually unsustainable that it inspires admiration for …
Of McCarrick, Jesuits, and Summorum Pontificum
It was a Saturday afternoon in summer. It was bright and sunny. It was a “Saturday vigil” Mass for some green Sunday or other. I was twelve. The celebrant was the diocesan bishop, Theodore McCarrick. He was doing a parish …
Calendar Clues: Pope Francis and the Lex Orandi of Papal Maximalism
For all his interest in the liturgy, Pope Benedict XVI made not a single change to the Calendarium Romanum of the ordinary form of the Roman Rite. Even after declaring John of Avila and Hildegard of Bingen to be doctors …
Culture Warriors, Rigidity, and the Semantic Games of the Catholic Left
Peruse any number of articles and opinion pieces in any number of more left-leaning Catholic media venues, and soon enough you are likely to read the ipse dixit assertion that certain prelates or lay leaders are culture warriors. Certain bishops, …
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