Second Generation Trad: On Freedom for the Good
A delicate balance must be maintained by parents when it comes to promoting good things in family life and allowing appropriate freedom for their children.
St. Thomas on the Doctrine of Music
St. Jerome does not absolutely condemn singing, but reproves those who sing theatrically in church not in order to arouse devotion, but in order to show off, or to provoke pleasure.
Christian Fashion in the Teaching of the Church with Virginia Coda Nunziante
We are immersed in a society of the horrid, the ugly, the vulgar, and therefore any appeal to beauty is an opening to the transcendent.
The English Catholic Who Risked Death for Sacred Music and the Faith
It is music written for an intimate, secret setting... which was punishable in many cases with life imprisonment and even the death penalty.
“Thou art Peter”: a Roman Tradition of Sacred Music
Unsurprisingly, Palestrina’s Iberian counterpart, Tomás Luis de Victoria, also has a six voice setting of this text.
The Brother of All Sinners
To be happy he would have to make himself immortal.
10th Anniversary of a Powerful Film
This documentary will surprise and awe you.
The Harp of the Holy Spirit
Against the Gnostic heretics, who sowed errors everywhere by means of song.
From Architecture to Contraception: A Journey to Paris
The mercy He gives us, one of many mercies, is that we don’t have to reinvent the wheel.
Custom and the Force of Law
When traditionalists insist that the products of last century’s Montinian tyranny are valid, we show more charity to our detractors than they do to us.
The First English Female Writer and Mystic
But suddenly, after the priest at her bedside showed her the Crucified One, Julian stopped suffering and had sixteen visions.