Empress Zita, Servant of God
"A Sovereign can never abdicate."
How the SSPX stays loyal to Rome
“Yes, we will ask Rome.”
In Illo Tempore: Laetare Sunday, 4th in Lent
It is a fact of human nature that when our senses are incessantly struck by the same impression, we begin to dull. Noise that never ceases is no longer truly heard. Color without contrast becomes flat. Images, especially wicked images, can first disturb and then stupefy. For this reason deprivation has a place in a…
Illicit Consecrations: the SSPX and the Chinese Bishops
I hope that the Pope’s diplomacy will be applied to the SSPX situation.
The SSPX Consecrations: an Eastern Catholic View
A comprehensive review of all theological and historical factors over the centuries.
The Little Way of Beauty
A key facet of the Little Way is blind surrender of our efforts to the Hand of God.
The SSPX: Hope or Tragedy?
That was the last time I went to the SSPX for confession.
Bishop Schneider Suggests SSPX Excommunications Would Be “Not Valid”
Bishop Schneider made comments to a private Confraternity which he gave permission to release.
In Illo Tempore: 3rd Sunday in Lent
The Roman Station for the Third Sunday of Lent is the Minor Papal Basilica of St. Lawrence outside-the-walls, San Lorenzo fuori le Mura. The Station is often the crowbar by which we pry open the Mass formulary. If we attend to place, structure, memory, and rite, the somewhat intricate Gospel from Luke 11 begins to…
Secular Music in the Mass Before Vatican II
"Not suitable for liturgical functions."
Cardinal Zen against Cardinal Fernández: He “intends to dismantle the traditions of the Church”
He will probably be quite pleased to see them excommunicated!
