What Barbie Taught Me
All of this, I see now, sprang from the innate human love of form.
World Youth Day and Anti-Culture
Cultus, tradition, elders and piety: every culture known to man (until modern times) has these four elements.
Vocational Course Change: Finding Abraham’s Gift
A change in vocational path, provided it remains on the path of God’s commandments, is never in itself a failure.
Traditional Theology of the Magisterium, pt. 2: The Evidence of Sacred Scripture
I follow the approach outlined by Joachim Salaverri in his Tractatus de Ecclesia from the Sacrae Theologiae Summa.
Forgotten Customs of Saints Days – Part 1
Who are the patron saints for your Diocese? Do you know if your Diocese has secondary patrons in addition to your primary patron?
Transfiguration Sunday: “We Have the Prophetic Word Made More Sure”
This Sunday we observe the Feast of the Transfiguration rather than the “green” Sunday after Pentecost, being the 10th. This Feast of the Transfiguration has a complicated history. First, in Rome there were celebrated on 6 August the feast of the martyrs Pope Sixtus II and six of his deacons, slain that day in the…
Two Englands: Albion and Logres
To see it in the ceremonial heart of Britain was a reminder of the Kinship of Christ over the entire world – especially fitting on that day.
St. Louis Christendom
We soon caught sight of the statue of Saint Louis, standing in all its glory on Art Hill.
Sacrilegious Disaster: the Opening Mass for World Youth Day
The Novus Ordo has become a meme at this point, being neither masculine nor feminine, but almost appearing as transgender if anything.
Does the Church Have a Duty to Protect Her Own Cultural Heritage?
"Holy Mother Church holds all lawfully acknowledged rites to be of equal right and dignity; that she wishes to preserve them in the future and to foster them in every way." -Vatican II
World Youth Day Promotes Interfaith Dialogue, not Conversion
"I would like to assure Bishop Aguiar that every single one of them is designed to evangelize." -Bishop Barron
