“Continuous ‘Aggiornamento’” and Revolution World without End?
After months of “listening to the People of God” and reviewing reports prepared by dioceses and episcopal conferences around the globe, the General Secretariat for the Synod of Bishops in Rome has produced a “Working Document for the Continental Stage” (DCS), the next phase of the three-year Synod on Synodality (Oct. 2021—Oct. 2024).[1] The 49-page […]
Catholics: Time to Go on Offense
Above: Monument to Girolamo Savonarola, Ferrara, Italy. Timothy Flanders voices a sentiment shared by many Catholics—bishops do your job! But he doesn’t go far enough. Catholic history—especially of the last half century—provides ample evidence of priests and laity ignoring or wantonly disobeying Episcopal edicts and actions. If, to use a cinematic reference, the bishop is […]
Every Bishop Must ACT NOW
It is with joy that all orthodox Catholics of good will heard the news of His Excellency, Bishop Paprocki’s condemnation of heresy in one of the most prominent American journals, First Things, last week. This was ostensibly a condemnation of Cardinal McElroy’s brazen challenge to Catholic moral theology in two pieces (here and here) at […]
An Eighth Sacrament?
Above: the Anointing of Queen Alexandra at the Coronation of Edward VII. On May 6, 2023, King Charles III shall be crowned at Westminster Abbey – as almost every King of England has been since William the Conqueror went through a similar ceremony in 1066. The round of rituals since his mother’s death last year […]
The Spiritual Role of Conscience
Editor’s note: for other articles on this important topic, see the following: The Catholic Teaching on Conscience St. John Henry Newman’s Conscience Against the Pope and the Vaccine In the last article we learned from Garrigou-Lagrange about the roots of sins and ugly growth in the human soul. Now we turn happily to the […]
3rd Sunday of Lent: “Do you hear what you are saying?!?”
The Roman Missal, polished after the Council of Trent and promulgated by St. Pope Pius the V and his successors until the 60’s, is surely one of the most important books that has ever been published. Having its roots firmly in a millennium of devotion and fidelity of worship in Rome, it became both bulwark […]
A Heartrending Trad Novel
This is an excellent book. It was so successful at portraying its heartrending themes that it made me feel physically sick. That makes it one of two novels to ever have affected me that way (the other was Rumer Godden’s In this house of Brede). Judith’s Marriage deserves a high ranking among novels dealing with […]
Throwing Yourself Away, or Yielding Yourself to God
Above: triptych of the Holy Souls in Purgatory being purified by the fires of divine charity, which comes from Christ Crucified, and comforted by the angels and our prayers. The Dominican church of St Catherine of Siena, New York City. Photo by Fr. Lawrence, OP. The Suicides; Canto XIII of The Inferno, by Dante Alighieri; […]
The Irish Fight for the Latin Mass – Part 4
The Irish Fight for the Latin Mass, pt. III Pt. I: Rise of the Anglican Regime Pt. II: The Glorious Dublin Martyrs Pt. III: The Pirate Queen and the Irish Fighting Spirit The Rise of Ó Neill With Connacht pacified, the Crown turned to the most daunting task yet. The northern province of Ulster was […]
La Fraternidad de San Nicolás
La Fraternidad de San Nicolás es una congregación laica promovida por Matthew Plese (A Catholic Life), en colaboración con OnePeterFive y Sensus Fidelium. Se compromete a poner en práctica medios concretos para salvar nuestra alma y ayudar a las almas de nuestros hermanos. Bajo el patrocinio de San Nicolás, esta hermandad pretende servir de medio […]