Marriage Counseling for Bishops?
Most bishops don’t feel free to treat their flocks right, because that would involve doing things that are against current policy in Rome.
Fratelli Non Tutti: Trads Not Included
"Room needs to be made for reflections born of religious traditions that are the repository of centuries of experience and wisdom." -Pope Francis
A Wanderer Asks Questions about Church Membership
The traditionalist movement in this sense is nothing other than the evidence of the continuity of the one Church of Christ within the sphere of the Latin rite.
To a Friend, on Persevering in a Most Unholy and Unchristian Age
Catholicism isn’t primarily about “the Church”—that is, the Church on earth in her structures, laws, works, affairs.
Can We Call Ourselves “Traditional Catholics”?
The qualifier “traditional” attached to “Catholic” is as coherent and meaningful as the familiar qualifier “Roman”—nay, far more so.
Deacon Asks: How Many Priests Have Lost Their Faith?
The Pity and the Pretense “Fidelity, fidelity, fidelity!” –Father Richard John Neuhaus (1936-2009) Father Frank Fourberie (fictitious) is fifty-eight years old. He has been a priest for thirty years, and he is now pastor of a large urban church in a major American city. Father Fourberie is a generally kind, thoughtful, and generous man.…
Napoleon’s Revolution Resurrected in Our Age
At dawn on July 6, 1809, French soldiers under the command of General Radet stormed the papal palace on the Quiniral Hill to arrest and take prisoner Pope Pius VII. The soldiers rapidly overran the palace and reached the pope’s private apartments. There the general stood in a line with his officers, while directly opposite…
Two Fingers to Death: On Siberia, Sedes, and Schism
“I follow no leader but Christ and join in communion with none but your blessedness [Pope Damasus I], that is, with the chair of Peter. I know that this is the rock on which the Church has been built. Whoever eats the Lamb outside this house is profane. Anyone who is not in the ark…
Black Lives Matter and Anarcho-Tyranny in the Church
When Garces Memorial High School sacked theology teacher Tim Gordon for telling the truth about Black Lives Matter, the school divulged a dirty little secret about the hierarchy of the Catholic Church. Just as ruling-class elites in both political parties in the United States despise the deplorables who voted for President Trump, the ruling-class elites…
Danger to Catholics during the Coronavirus Panic
As the COVID-19, Chinese communist, Wuhan coronavirus pandemic (pick your modifier) crisis continues, faithful Catholics from all sides have divided on the issue. The spectrum of opinions ranges from those faithful Catholics taking the virus very seriously and advocating for great caution to those other faithful Catholics dismissing the whole thing as an overblown and…
What Fulton Sheen Did When Churches Were Closed
I remember my utter shock and disbelief when our diocese closed all the churches. It seemed like an impossibility (and still does) that there would be no sacraments available to the laity. How does this make sense? In the time of global pandemic and such fear and uncertainty, the sacraments are what we seem to…
