A Better Rite Is Not a Better Catholic
Part 1 of 4 in the series “A Treasure, Not a Trophy.” A Catholic who has found the older Mass…
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Growing, Rising, or Falling? A Friendly Reply to “The Continuing Fall of the SSPX”
We write as fellow Catholics, because Catholics who love the Church and disagree on how to defend her should talk…
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Judge Just Judgment
On the verse most often produced to end an argument, and the half of it that never gets produced. There…
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The Antiquity They Didn’t Want
They said they were going back to the sources. Case by case, the ancient thing was invoked, described accurately, and then set aside for something the reformers preferred, while the claim to antiquity was kept.
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The Battle of Lepanto
White founts falling in the courts of the sun,And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run;There is laughter…
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What the Rosary Won at Lepanto
Tomorrow, 7 October, is the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. It exists because of a sea battle. Most…
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The Prayer That Outlived Its Rubric
In a growing number of parishes, when the last hymn is over and the priest has gone, somebody starts it…
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Venerable No Longer
On Thursday, 24 September 2026, at two o’clock in the afternoon, a cardinal will stand up in a domed football…
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Rediscovering Apostolic Faith: The Old Mass Against the Tide
Five years after Traditionis custodes, and more than a year into the pontificate of Leo XIV, the older form of…
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Where Did the Requiem Go?
The Requiem was never meant to happen once. The Missal contains a schedule: the day of death, the third day, the seventh, the thirtieth, and every anniversary after. What happened to it, and why it is worth recovering.
