Not Development but Doctrinal “Progress”—by Leaps and Bounds
"If the Gospel forbids the death penalty, then St. Paul himself betrayed the Gospel."
In Illo Tempore: 3rd Sunday after Easter
The 3rd Sunday after Easter in the Vetus Ordo draws us into that peculiar Christian experience of living between gift and fulfillment, between consolation remembered and consummation promised, between the joy of Easter already given and the greater joy that still presses toward Ascension and Pentecost. The whole formulary has a tensile quality. Expectancy. Movement.…
Beating the Bounds: the Joy of the Rogation Days
Processions take the Faith from inside the churches, and bring it out to where the majority of people are.
Pope Leo: “We Do Not Agree with the Formalized Blessing of …Homosexual Couples”
"To go beyond that ...can cause more disunity than unity"
The Universal Feast of Good St. George
And before he killed the dragon He drank a pint of English ale
The Pre-55 Paschal Feast of St. Joseph
Instituted by Pope Pius IX in 1847.
On the Use of the Latin Language and its Meanings
Pope John XXIII’s arguments in defense of Latin.
In Illo Tempore: Good Shepherd Sunday – 2nd after Easter
The 2nd Sunday after Easter in the traditional Roman Rite is called Good Shepherd Sunday. The nickname is well deserved. The Gospel presents Christ’s discourse in John 10, the Epistle from 1 Peter gathers into itself Isaiah’s Suffering Servant, and the Roman Station in ancient times was St. Peter’s on the Vatican Hill, at the…
Respected Maestro Excluded from Vatican II
Virgili responded to the post–Vatican II liturgical reforms with clarity and pastoral balance.
Is There Any Tradition More Important than the TLM? Yes. And it’s the “One Thing Necessary”
This tradition is more important than the Latin Mass itself.
Rome & the SSPX: why “Reconciliation” is Impossible
There is no way for the faithful to navigate this situation in a perfectly legal manner.
