In Illo Tempore: 18th Sunday after Pentecost
As summer yields to autumn in the lands where the Roman liturgical year took shape, the Church turns our attention toward harvest and reckoning. The shortening days give a certain urgency to the Epistle of the Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost. St. Paul thanks God for the grace bestowed on the Corinthians, even as they await…
The Fake Lúcia Hypothesis: Handwriting Analysis Proves an Impostor?
The Fake Lúcia Hypothesis makes claims about the handwriting of Sr. Lúcia.
In Illo Tempore: 17th Sunday after Pentecost
September was the old “seventh month,” and at Rome the harvest stood in the background of the Church’s prayer. The fields are being gathered in, the year bends toward its close, and the liturgy begins to take on those autumnal notes which will become more insistent as the Sundays advance: judgment, perseverance, the end of…
SSPX Clerics are Schismatic? Then they are Separated Brethren
The merciless will be judged mercilessly.
We Came, We Saw, God Conquered!
Pope Innocent XI made September 12th a Feast of the Most Holy name of Mary to commemorate the victory that was done in Her name.
The Fake Lúcia Hypothesis: Questioning an Expert
...Chinese medicine, astrology, astro-herbalism, and meditation...
In Illo Tempore: 16th Sunday after Pentecost
It was pride that brought down Satan and the other apostate angels. It was pride that brought down the human race in our First Parents. Pride turned angels into devils and Paradise into this vale of tears. St. Bernard of Clairvaux called pride “initium omnis peccati … the beginning of every sin” (De gradibus humilitatis…
Forgotten Customs of Our Lady’s Nativity
Thy birth, O Virgin Mother of God, proclaimed joy to the whole world; for from Thee arose the sun of righteousness, Christ our God; who released us from the curse, and gave us blessing; and confounding death, He granted us eternal life. -Greek antiphon chanted at the Magnificat for Vespers II September 8th One of…
The Fake Lúcia Hypothesis: the Scholarship of Sister Lucy Truth
Regretfully, evidence suggests that Sister Lucy Truth was not always careful in its manner of proceeding.