Today is the feast of Our Lady of the Expectation. This feast has an interesting history that Brother Andre reviewed for us this morning in his morning meditation in our chapel. In Spain, this feast day is Nuestra Senora de … Continue reading
Category: Columns
Another Saint, Just the Stuff of Legend
A few weeks ago, the Philosopher made another one of his unpredictable appearances on our website suggesting a proper prayer for those who doubt the existence of certain canonized saints. In this case it was the co-founder of the Trinitarian … Continue reading
Homosexual Activists Censure ‘Gay’
“That’s so gay!” Not nice. It offends. It shouldn’t be used. So say the folks who coopted the innocent word “gay” and transmogrified it to mean “homosexual.” Now these same folks don’t want others to coopt their coopted word and … Continue reading
The Argentine Church Seeks to Baptize
Cardinal Bergoglio and other bishops are ordering that baptism not be withheld from those who are far removed from religious practice. Better a Church of the people than one only of the pure. Ratzinger also thinks this way. Sandro Magister … Continue reading
Christmas Letter & an Apology
Now posted on our site is the Christmas Letter that was mailed to our regular supporters on December 3. I hope you enjoy it. If you would like to get these kinds of things in the mail, it’s very easy … Continue reading
You Might Be in Richmond, N.H., If…
I was in the Brothers’ Priory earlier today, espying on the activities at their Richmond-based Command Central, and was particularly struck by the reading material available to these religious — specifically, the variety thereof. On the same shelf as Dom … Continue reading
Just an Idea
I was considering the awful plight of the homeless in American cities as winter sets in and, as good as soup kitchens are, I was wondering about another strategy that would also help them. First, one must put oneself in … Continue reading
A Great Sermon on the Dogma
Audio Sancto has posted a stunning and arresting sermon on “our” doctrine: Salvation is Only in the Catholic Church. This sermon is preached by a Catholic priest in good standing, one who is not a Slave of the Immaculate Heart … Continue reading
His Highness Was Almost His Holiness
Of course he had abdicated his royal title when he was ordained to the priesthood, but this Stuart was a papabile in 1800. Did You Know that in the conclave of 1800 a de jure King of England almost was … Continue reading
Greetings from the Belly of the Beast
Brother Maximilian Maria and I are in DC, on a layover in Dulles International Airport (named after Cardinal Avery Dulles’ famous Dad — go figure!). We’re to board a 767 soon, headed to Rome’s Da Vinci Airport. For the next … Continue reading
Bravo Bishop Thomas Tobin!
If your job obliges you to cooperate with sin, which Congressman Patrick Kennedy’s job does not, then “quit your job and save your soul.” That’s what the Bishop of Rhode Island told Bill O’Reilly on the O’Reilly Factor yesterday. O’Reilly … Continue reading
Christ the King Revisited
Tomorrow is the feast of Christ the King according the the Novus Ordo calendar. For this occasion, Jack Kenny has written a witty piece published by the New American. Excerpt: Yet many Christians today seem reluctant to see Christ as … Continue reading
To Saint Felix of Valois, the Prayer of a Modernist
Saint Felix, Oh nonexistent founder of the Trinitarians! Pray for the Christian captives whose cause thou so admirably took up, despite the fact that thou art a mere pious legend. Pray for France, the cradle of thy Order, and whose … Continue reading
Don’t Be a Quidnunc!
Oh, and you don’t know what a quidnunc is? Quid, what + nunc, now = someone who asks “what now?” a lot, as in, “have you heard the latest?” In other words, a quidnunc is a busy body, a gossip. … Continue reading
The Anglicans and the Orthodox
Anglicanorum Coetibus has created a mechanism for bringing hundreds of thousands of Anglicans worldwide into the Church, so we can say that the “Anglican Front” is indeed a very active one. But, according to Sandro Magister, this development has pricked … Continue reading
