No, the Novus Ordo Isn’t Ancient Just Because It Borrows Ancient Parts
The Novus Ordo includes prayers and elements that are ancient: the Kyrie, the Gloria, the Sanctus, the Roman Canon. That…
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A Sword Shall Pierce
“And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary his mother: Behold this child is set for the fall, and for…
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Unite the Clans: Yes, Even the Reform of the Reform
Reverent Catholic worship is under pressure. Now is not the time to be fighting each other. There is a phrase…
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The Fast Nobody Told You About
Today is the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, and it sets a clock running. This Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, the…
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Francis in Full, Except the Mass
In the days between the death of Pope Francis and the conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV, Bishop Robert Barron…
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The Asterisk Cuts the Other Way
A Protestant writer says the Church only recognized the Bible, so it has no authority over it. The asterisk is correct — and it cuts the other way.
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The Catholic Birth of Modern Science
Modern narratives often cast science and religion as opposing forces, locked in an eternal struggle. The Church, we are told,…
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Is Logic Invented or Discovered?
Is logic a human invention or a discovery? Untangle the question and it leads somewhere unexpected — past chess and convention, past even a Platonic “third realm,” to the eternal Reason the Gospel calls the Logos.
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The Scoundrels’ Alibi
How a convenient story about “bad traditionalists” was used to justify crushing an entire movement — and why the story doesn’t hold up. Five years after Traditionis Custodes, the Vatican’s own documents tell a different tale.
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Where We Stand
A plain statement of the position of this house: the Church is the Catholic Church, the pope is the true pope, the traditional Mass was handed down rather than drawn up, and the Novus Ordo is valid. We criticise a liturgy and its governance, never the Catholics who worship in it.
