Pope Lambertini
"The greatest of his century."
Colligite Fragmenta: “Laetare” Sunday, the 4th of Lent
I will guess that we have all heard the explanation of why this Sunday is called Laertare (“Rejoice”) and why we have rose (rosacea) vestments and that the Roman Station is at the Church of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem. St. John Henry Newman wrote of this church: “This Basilica is so called, because Saint…
The Reverent Novus Ordo Doesn’t Scale
The extreme adaptability of the reverent Novus Ordo renders it unscale-able.
I Moved My Family Farther from a Traditional Latin Mass
I dispute the claim that all Catholics of good faith must attend a TLM or risk their salvation.
The Powerful, Dual Role of Women in Shakespeare’s MacBeth
...for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth.
Children: Culture, and Demography
These two books give important insights into the relationship between economics, demography, and values.
The Magnanimous Housewife
In the A.D. era, humility is the route to magnanimity.
Colligite Fragmenta: 3rd Sunday of Lent
Welcome to the second part of Lent. As Pius Parsch puts it in The Church’s Year of Grace, in the first two weeks we put ourselves on guard against attacks by the Prince of this world, the Devil and fallen angels, with the weapon of mortifications. On this Sunday we move from defense against the…
Attendance at Mass and How to Fix It
In October of every year, my diocese, the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, conducts a “head count” in order to determine average Mass attendance. The results of the 2024 count were published in the diocesan newspaper, The Arlington Catholic Herald, in the Jan. 30 – Feb. 12, 2025 edition. Out of an estimated 433,000 registered Catholics…
Sacred Initiation and Baptismal Symbolism in Tolkien’s Stories
The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.
