Today’s Difficult Pilgrimage
We have the tradition of the Memorial Stair Climb.
In Illo Tempore: 16th Sunday after Pentecost
It was pride that brought down Satan and the other apostate angels. It was pride that brought down the human race in our First Parents. Pride turned angels into devils and Paradise into this vale of tears. St. Bernard of Clairvaux called pride “initium omnis peccati … the beginning of every sin” (De gradibus humilitatis…
The Ancient Roman Rite not at Home in Rome?
"I have not had the chance to really sit down with a group of people who are advocating for the Tridentine rite."
Beautiful Film for Wise Spectators
What the templum was for the Romans, the surface on which we watch a film is today.
Forgotten Customs of Our Lady’s Nativity
Thy birth, O Virgin Mother of God, proclaimed joy to the whole world; for from Thee arose the sun of righteousness, Christ our God; who released us from the curse, and gave us blessing; and confounding death, He granted us eternal life. -Greek antiphon chanted at the Magnificat for Vespers II September 8th One of…
Does Pagan Cosmogony follow from General Relativity?
There is no observational or experimental evidence for “dark energy."
In Illo Tempore: 15th Sunday after Pentecost
We come now to the 15th Sunday after Pentecost, known in the older Roman reckoning as Quinta post Sancti Laurentii, the fifth Sunday after St. Lawrence. The Romans loved their deacon martyr, whose basilica stood beyond the walls along the Via Tiburtina. In the ancient arrangement, Sundays throughout the year had their station churches, not…
“Peter” and “Satan”: the Two Names of the Pope
There is only one way to harmonize these passages which the inspired Evangelist has, with good reason, placed side by side.
The Fake Lúcia Hypothesis: the Scholarship of Sister Lucy Truth
Regretfully, evidence suggests that Sister Lucy Truth was not always careful in its manner of proceeding.
