Modernism is a Sin
What, then, is “faith” for the Modernist?
From the Oxford Movement to Pasadena
The California Bungalow is a late link in a chain that takes us back ultimately to Old Christendom.
Astronomy and Liturgy: the Symbolic Meanings of the Date of Easter
No gesture or liturgical object is without symbolic (i.e., mystical) significance.
Colligite Fragmenta: 7th Sunday after Pentecost
The texts for this 7th Sunday after Pentecost in the 1962 Missale Romanum, the Vetus Ordo, challenge us to examine the alignment between the profession of our faith and the actual fruit borne in our lives. “By their fruits you shall know them,” the Lord says in today’s Gospel (Matthew 7:15–21). This is a proffered…
False Prophets & False Shepherds
This is the preaching of a wolf in a chasuble.
A Garden Enclosed: the Fairfield Carmelites
All photos throughout by Haley Rossi. Sisters pictured above are externs. My sister, my spouse, is a garden enclosed, a garden enclosed, a fountain sealed up.Canticle of Canticles 4:12 When children are excited about an experience and want to share the story with ones they love, they often trip over their words, the rush of…
The Miracles of the Rosary & Marian Apparitions (Miracles pt. 7)
"What happened at Hiroshima still defies all human logic."
A Nasty Man Like Me
He got permission to continue to celebrate the Traditional Mass after 1971.
Exit the City of Man
Understandably, people become stressed over rancorous and bitter disagreements. This is one reason why John Lennon was able to captivate so many with the invitation to imagine no religion or possessions, making possible a “brotherhood of man.” Who wouldn’t want that? A generation or two later, in a very different musical genre, Kurt Cobain likewise…
Close the Workshop: Why the Old Mass Isn’t Broken and the New Mass Can’t be Fixed
Close the Workshop refutes many of those principles.
Leo XIV Approves Latin Mass in Texas Diocese
But he has not done anything explicitly about Traditionis Custodes... until now.
