This is the text of the talk I gave at the 2025 Saint Benedict Center Conference in October. “MAY you live in interesting times!” So goes an ancient and proverbial Chinese curse, short and pithy, but packed with enigmatic Asiatic … Continue reading
This is the text of the talk I gave at the 2025 Saint Benedict Center Conference in October. “MAY you live in interesting times!” So goes an ancient and proverbial Chinese curse, short and pithy, but packed with enigmatic Asiatic … Continue reading
Pope Leo’s apostolic letter, In Unitate Fidei (“in the Unity of Faith”), raises serious concerns over its treatment of core Catholic teachings. The letter, dated November 23, concerns the 1700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicea in 325, and … Continue reading
Matt Fradd, of “Pints with Aquinas,” produced a very lengthy interview with Dr. Peter Kwasniewski last week, On Music, Art, and the Recovery of the Sacred. Mr. Fradd’s YouTube channel has made available a twelve-minute clip, embedded below, that offers … Continue reading
We learned this week that Mariologists were not consulted in the writing of the recent “Doctrinal Note,” of the DDF, Mater Populi Fidelis. With all the emphasis on collegiality, synodality, dialogue, etc. — and with the plethora of consultants the Roman … Continue reading
It’s November 22, and it’s the Feast of Saint Cecilia! From Homages to a Heroine (On Saint Cecilia): To name but a few of the musical and poetic works dedicated to her: John Dryden’s poem, “A Song for Saint Cecilia’s … Continue reading
Diane Montagna has done us all a favor by publishing a theological analysis of Mater Populi Fidelis by the Franciscan Mariologist Father Serafino Lanzetta. Below are reproduced the introductory paragraphs followed by a link to the original on Miss Montagna’s Substack. Following … Continue reading
The distinction of “best city to move to” has been awarded to Nashua, New Hampshire. This, of course, is very secular news, but there is a traditional Catholic angle. The Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter has a flourishing, TLM-only, personal … Continue reading
In honor of the Month of the Holy Souls, here is a lovely Requeim by Joseph Balthasar Hochreither (1669 – 1731). I found a German-language dissertation online on Hochreither, and present here an AI-translation1 of the abstract of that dissertation, … Continue reading
Many responses to the recent Marian docoment from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith document are coming forth. I refer, of course, to Mater Populi Fidelis, the “Doctrinal Note on Some Marian Titles Regarding Mary’s Cooperation in the … Continue reading
Recorded on March 25, 1998: Fr. Peter Damian Mary Fehlner, FI and Mother Angelica promote the Catholic teaching of Our Lady as Coredemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate.
In my most recent Ad Rem, On the Boy Jesus and the Doctors of the Law, I did something I rarely do. I quoted from the Talmud. Someone on social media took exception to my doing so, and I explained … Continue reading
Michael Haynes, an English Catholic journalist who is part of the Holy See Press Corps, has written what strikes me as a balanced account of the meeting between Pope Leo XIV and King Charles III for One Peter Five. Below … Continue reading
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