Pope Francis is Dead: a Traditionalist Response
In order to avoid the sin of pride, we must imagine that Pope Francis died a Christian death and will attain a higher place in heaven than you.
Colligite Fragmenta: Easter Sunday
Happy Easter! My hopeful prayer is that you experience, in this Easter Season, true joy in a personal encounter with the Risen Lord. The Church’s firehose of imagery and traditions and sacred liturgy has been blasting fully at our little drinking cups. Holy Week and the Sacred Triduum can overwhelm as we reach the apex…
Washington Irving & New York Easter
In time, this became a regular institution.
Compassion for Our Lady of Sorrows
Be not satisfied with a mere sterile and unfruitful compassion for Mary, the Queen of Dolours.
Sacred Music for the Poor
Only sacred music, in his view, could inspire behaviors in harmony with Christian life.
In the Vineyard of Silence
A silence so full it seemed to hum with the voice of God.
Death to Self – Asceticism of Marriage
They fight their battles in living rooms, kitchens, bedrooms, prayer corners, offices, cars, Church kneelers and dining rooms.
How to do Holy Week: Mary is the Model
Let us embrace this gift given to us: “Behold your Mother.”
Sedevacantism & the SSPX: Clerical Questions that Need Not Concern the Laity
No lay person is responsible for figuring them out in order to save his soul.
Entering the Mystical Cloud with the Angelic Doctor
It is the metaphysics of participation that governs the heavenly vision.
The Traditional Mass and the Jews
This document appears to have had zero effect on the work of the reformers.
