Pope Fiction: a One-Scene Play
Gathering Hymn: “Sing a New Church”
Attendance at Mass and How to Fix It
In October of every year, my diocese, the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, conducts a “head count” in order to determine average Mass attendance. The results of the 2024 count were published in the diocesan newspaper, The Arlington Catholic Herald, in the Jan. 30 – Feb. 12, 2025 edition. Out of an estimated 433,000 registered Catholics…
Pope Francis: Mission Accomplished
The end of Christendom, but not at the end of Christianity.
Hope Lies Not in Some Future Pope
What is the point of a religion that changes from time to time depending on who is pope?
“The People Shall Save the Church.” But How?
Fulton J. Sheen said that it would be up to the people to save the church.
The Handbook for Confused Catholics
Catholics of a certain age know things about their religion that many — if not most — Catholics today have never been taught.
How to Be a Catholic in the Synodality Era
What matters for us, living in this particular time, is not so much the state of the Church, but rather the state of our souls.
Easter Triduum at the OK Corral
What it means is that traditional Catholics have been set up for their final and absolute elimination from the Church.
“Unity Über Alles”: Bishop Burbidge in His Own Words
Above: the nave of St. Thomas More Cathedral, the apostolic chair of Arlington. On July 29, 2022, Bishop Michael Burbidge, Bishop of Arlington, Virginia, promulgated a “Policy for Implementation of Traditionis Custodes in the Diocese of Arlington.” Effective September 8, 2022, the Tridentine Mass can no longer be offered in parish churches in Arlington. (There…
Viganò, Vatican II and the Catholic Liturgy
In his open message to priests, dated January 2, 2022, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò begins with the admission that he had served the “Holy Apostolic Mass” as a youth; that it was the Mass of his ordination in March, 1968; and that it soon became a distant memory. He admits that he had been away…
An Open Letter to Every Priest: A Reed Shaken by the Wind
The scene: a small church in some out-of-the-way place. Early morning sunlight dimly filters through a small window, revealing smoke curling up from two just-extinguished candles. There are six candles in all, upon an altar that is hard against the wall. Some placards with prayers in Latin are spaced along the altar. It is quiet.…
