The Vital Importance of the Catholic Land Movement
A Realist Enterprise of Lay Restoration
In Illo Tempore: 21st Sunday after Pentecost
As October gives way to November, Holy Church chants in autumnal tones. The end (of the Church year) is near. In the Vetus Ordo our remaining Sundays after Pentecost lead us toward our reckoning with the King, that is, the King of EVERYTHING and not just Heaven. The King will return, open the books, and…
Why Columbus Day Matters to the Blessed Virgin Mary
Editor’s note: every year Columbus Day in the USA is the same day as Canadian Thanksgiving. Thus every year we give thanks for Columbus. “In fourteen hundred and ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue,” a chant familiar to every school-aged child in the United States. Well, let us hope that this is still the case!…
The Bishop’s Altar is the Throne of Christ the King in every City-State-Nation
The demons were overthrown, and a new throne was raised.
The Rosary Sounds the Trumpet of the New Israel
...for those who come to see the need to be little.
In Illo Tempore: 19th Sunday after Pentecost
In the words of the singer Peggy Lee… The window she is broken and the rain is comin’ in If someone doesn’t fix it I’ll be soaking to my skin But if we wait a day or two the rain may go away And we don’t need a window on such a sunny day Mañana,…
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…