In The Everlasting Man, Chesterton uses an analogy to describe the modern inability to properly critique religion. He paints a mental picture using the image of a Cathedral with stained glass. He explains that if we enter into the Church we can see the beauty from the inside, and by extension will see the point…
Founding Mythos Florida is an often maligned and misunderstood place. A region shrouded in mystery from its inception even until today. It is enigmatic, the subtropical womb in which the first European American civilization was born. A forgotten Catholic and Hispanic society, erased by those that came after. In many ways the history of Florida…
Above: the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception as viewed from the Washington monument in DC, shown displaying the US flag. Brothers and Sisters, for freedom Christ set us free; so stand firm and do not submit again to the yoke of slavery. For you were called for freedom, brothers and sisters. But do not…
Entropy, in physics, describes the measure of disorder. In the entire universe there is a rise in disorder as, slowly but surely, energy dissipates. You know how this works in daily life. When your ice cube melts, heat, energy, goes into the ice, not cold into the air, even though if you put your hand…
Above: For Spain and for the King, Galvez in America (2016) by Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau Nieto (b. 1964) Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners. And necessity has made us allies. Those whom nature hath so joined together, let no man put asunder. –John F Kennedy, May 1961…
Editor’s note: due to the importance of the Fourth of July for our current crisis post-Vatican II, we will publish a number of Catholic perspectives on America and Americanism (see the first article “The United States of Freemasonry” by D. L. Gray). The article below, originally published by Catholic Family News, addresses the Catholic claim that the…
Above: Church of St. Michael the Archangel in Conca. The Franciscan presence in Mexico is enormous. Visit any city or town in the country and you are sure to see a Franciscan monastery; in many cases these are massive edifices which are pretty hard to miss. The one in Izamal, Yucatan, for example, is so…
Above: Pope Francis and Nancy Pelosi yesterday, who has been excommunicated by her own bishop. Editor’s note: in light of yesterday’s tacit approval to pro-abortion Catholic Nancy Pelosi given by the Roman Pontiff in the midst of his silence regarding the Dobbs decision, we publish this important perspective from Mr. John Smeaton, reflecting on the…
Above: Pope Francis at the Consecration of Russia on the Annunciation, 2022 (Diane Montagna). Editor’s note: as a reminder, we do not take a stand about certain Trad controversies re: Fatima, but we publish all Trad views which are within our editorial stance. If anyone wants to submit anything in rebuttal to Mr. Hall, please…
Above: Upside down Pyramid, Bratislava. Like a piece of upside-down modernist architecture, the new papal apostolic letter Desiderio Desideravi: On the Liturgical Formation of the People of God is daringly balanced on one point: that the new liturgy of Paul VI is the fulfillment of the Second Vatican Council’s demand for liturgical reform in Sacrosanctum Concilium. On the truth…
We see in the Latin liturgical tradition an interesting thing: with the major feast on June 29 as well as the minor feasts, both apostles are always commemorated[1]. If the feast is chiefly of the Prince of the Apostles, then St. Paul is also commemorated with an additional collect and vice versa[2]. Thus also today…
