1+ day, 16+ hour ago  (1362+ words) Many people are now well familiar with Lefebvre in the post-Vatican II period, but probably don't know about D'llinger and the "Old Catholics," who arose following Vatican Council I....

2+ day, 16+ hour ago  (27+ words) As the crisis in the Church continues to deepen and metastasize, faithful Catholics, by their confirmation, are called to remain steadfast in the faith of their fathers....

3+ day, 9+ hour ago  (208+ words) When fierce arguments break out between Catholics, particularly online, they sadly have been marked by personal attacks and uncharitable accusations about the motives of others. Instead of making an attempt to consider the arguments of the other side'a process that…...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago  (360+ words) In King Charles's latest attempt to distance himself from Christianity, he seems to have abandoned the title "Defender of the Faith, which British monarchs have claimed for themselves for the past 500 years. If Christians claim that Christ is the Son…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (818+ words) Even in our screen-driven, fast-food comfortable lives, Kapauns can be formed. When Venerable Emil Kapaun's earthly remains were returned home to his native Kansas in 2021, Sgt. 1st Class Herbert Miller, at attention from his wheelchair, extolled him: "You don't have 'em…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (701+ words) While the SSPX (rightly) presents its dispute with the Vatican as one of doctrine, it ignores its own doctrinally problematic elephant in the room. While the Society disobeyed a direct command of the Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church, it…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (17+ words) The "Mary" of Islam is an erroneous picture of the real and true Virgin Mother of God....

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (421+ words) Versus populum undermines and obscures what ad orientem communicates, something the late Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) well understood. Dr. Peter Kwasniewski, the great defender of traditional, pre-Vatican II Catholic liturgy, sees things a bit differently. For him, the widespread abandonment…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (1231+ words) Any distinction between an "institutional Church" and a "true Catholic Church" is an error with ancient heretical roots, most recently revived by figures like Archbishop Vigan....

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (214+ words) Save for Christ alone, our very existence would itself be an unimaginably grim death blow....