Hope Lies Not in Some Future Pope
What is the point of a religion that changes from time to time depending on who is pope?
Diebus Saltem Dominicis – 12th Sunday after Pentecost: Mugged by the Truth
Often in the Gospels, when Christ associates Himself with the Father in such a way that He suggests that He, too, is divine, some scribe or Pharisee, that is, an expert on the Law and Prophets, get up in His face and interrogates Him. This is what happens in the Gospel reading from Luke 10:23-37…
Catholic Orthodoxy, not mere Traditionalism
Unfortunately, this divorce has a high probability due to different experiences of East and West with the Second Vatican Council.
Reconciliation after Reconquista, pt. 1
Will that ‘ad orientem’ alliance between Western Traditionalists and those who belong to Eastern Traditions split?
Medieval Ressourcement and the Mysticism of St. Thomas: An Appreciation of Urban Hannon’s Thomistic Mystagogy
They inhabited a mystical world whose spell could not be broken by even the most relentless logician.
Diebus Saltem Dominicis – 11th Sunday after Pentecost: Dog Days
Bl. Idefonso Schuster (+1954) wrote about this 11th Sunday after Pentecost, “now the heavy clusters are taking on luscious color upon the smiling hills of the Roman Campagna.” In our northern hemisphere, however you calculate their duration, we are deep into the Dog Days, the dies caniculares, when serious heat imposes on the terrestrial with…
How to Profit from Good Books and Avoid Bad Ones
We cannot always have access to a spiritual Father for counsel in our actions, and particularly in our doubts.
Fr. John Hunwick and the Cultus of King Charles the Martyr
There is a chapel at St. Agatha’s to King Charles the Martyr.
Aristocracy of Blood and Spirit: the Marquis Luigi Coda Nunziante
God entrusts certain people with the mission of being symbols.