Pope St. Pius V’s Reform of the Missal
"Those matters which concerned the preservation of a pure liturgy."
Colligite Fragmenta: Good Shepherd Sunday, 2nd after Easter
A few minutes by foot from where I presently write in Rome is the Basilica of St. Peter on the Vatican Hill. This was the traditional Roman Station for this Sunday in ancient times. The present church replaced the original built by the Emperor Constatine in the 4th century. It soars with its vast vaults…
Renewal and Restoration in the Church: An Open Letter to the Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church
“In vast areas of the world, the faith is in danger of dying out like a flame which no longer has fuel."
Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi: The Rules for Worship Are the Rules for Faith
The Mass is Church teaching, theology in motion.
How to Face the Church Crisis: Wisdom from a Trad Godfather
“How God Wants Us to Respond in the Present Crisis"
The Greatest Eastern Apologist for Pontifical Authority: Vladimir Solovyov
Above: Lipetsk, Russia Published in Paris in 1885, in order to protect the author from possible persecution by the Russian imperial authorities, Solovyov’s work La Russie et l’Église universelle (Russia and the Universal Church) [1] contains a section whose reading played a decisive role in my conversion from Eastern Orthodoxy to Rome. This part of…
The Little Way of Christendom, Part 1
Modernity is inimical to Christian living and the undiluted Faith.
Appeal for a Worldwide Crusade of Prayers for the Upcoming Conclave
For a new Pope who will be fully Catholic, fully Apostolic and fully Roman.