Musicæ Princeps
Deeply religious and of impeccable morality, Palestrina was also a practical businessman.
Join the FSSP Novena for Gratitude
I was reading Peter Kwasniewski‘s Substack and he alerted me to the following important announcement. —- The Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter has asked clergy and laity to join them in a novena from February 2 to 10. The Communiqué from the Fribourg HQ reads as follows: Three years ago, at a moment of deep…
Colligite Fragmenta: Candlemas or the Feast of the Purification
The Feast we celebrate this Sunday is called the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary. On this day we definitively close out the Advent/Christmas cycle. It is forty days since Christmas. According to Mosaic Law, women who had given birth were required to offer a sacrifice for ritual purification. Of course, Our Lady was not…
The Tale of Joseph Bevan: A Trad Godfather’s Memoir
In Two Families: A Memoir of English Life During and After the Council, Joseph Bevan peels back the curtain on one family’s devastating encounter with liturgical revolution, and another’s inspiring emergence from the ruins. Both of these families are his own, considered in each direction of the family tree: he begins by recounting life with…
Saint Bonaventure and the Number of the Beast
He identified the rationalistic theology influenced by the rise of Aristotelianism with the “smoke rising from the abyss” (Apocalypse 9:21).
Stories to Keep Valor Alive
Many of the heroes mentioned in the book Defenders of Christendom were forced to face their enemies without the help of their Catholic neighbors.
The Westernizing Russian Czar
One of the most important and controversial tsars in Russian history.
Miracles As Testified in the Holy Scriptures
Above: Jesus walking on the Sea of Galilee by Paul Bril (c. 1553/1554–1626). After having considered in Part 1 what miracles are – and what they are not – we next consider the testimony of the Holy Scriptures on miracles through both the New and the Old Testament. This article is the second in a 10-part…
The SSPX: Questions and Answers
A concise review of the criticisms of the SSPX and some answers to these criticisms.
Part III: Being part of the Church
Grace is at work within the visible unity of the Catholic Church.
Colligite Fragmenta: 3rd Sunday after Epiphany
Because of the vagaries of your planet’s Moon, toward the end of this liturgical year and before the beginning of the next Advent, we will not have Remaining Sundays after Epiphany to fill in the calendrical gaps. This year, we sail straight through the Sundays after Pentecost all the way to the 24th and Last…
