Please confirm you are human
This browser or connection looks automated. Press and continuously hold the control for 3 seconds to enable Google-hosted web results and, when separately allowed, AI-assisted answers.
A successful check enables 100 search requests. Interactive access does not authorize scraping, systematic collection, or reuse of search output.
News
The Leo Seminar!
7+ hour, 4+ min ago (758+ words) by Paul Fahey · July 27, 2026 Lumen Gentium, Vatican II’s Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, says that the Church is “the universal sacrament of salvation” established for all people to encounter Christ and experience His liberating love. Sarah Carter and I know…...
The Oldest New Thing in the Church
18+ hour, 26+ min ago (1595+ words) by Andrew Likoudis · July 26, 2026 Synodality did not begin in 2021. It began in Jerusalem, around AD 49. Synodality, I keep reading, is confusing, maybe even undefinable. I recently sat through three days of it in practice, and nobody seemed confused. On July…...
Raised to Fear the World Outside the SSPX
6+ day, 19+ min ago (261+ words) by Gabriel Hart · July 21, 2026 “The modernist church is a desert. It kills everything that it touches, it kills the supernatural life, it kills the sources of grace. It dries up everything. Because it has placed man in the place of…...
The Pope is a Shepherd, Not Just Head of State
1+ week, 2+ day ago (186+ words) by Ariane Sroubek · July 17, 2026 The Vatican has clarified the role of the Pope in the wake of a controversial statement by US Ambassador to the Holy See, Brian Burch. The Holy Father’s “one true mission” is to be a spiritual…...
Traddyland: A Memoir the Church Needs Now
1+ week, 4+ day ago (525+ words) by Mike Lewis · July 15, 2026 Traddyland: Memoir of a Radical Traditional Catholic by Louis Massett. Available from Amazon. The theme of certainty appears early. Reflecting on a childhood attempt to protect three baby chicks that ended in their deaths, Massett writes,…...
Canon Law or Church History? The SSPX Schism
2+ week, 1+ day ago (1749+ words) by Pete Vere · July 12, 2026 Speaking candidly, I too am struggling to understand the sudden breakdown of relations between Rome and Écône. It seems quite sudden following Pope Francis’s death. What I did not imagine was finding clarity through Wayne Gretzky....
Blame the Rooster: The SSPX's Post Hoc Fallacy
2+ week, 5+ day ago (976+ words) by Louis Massett · July 7, 2026 The core traditionalist indictment of the Second Vatican Council is easier to state than the people making it usually realize. The argument, in its everyday form, is this: the crisis in the Catholic Church happened after…...
Was the SSPX Already in Schism and Excommunicated?
2+ week, 6+ day ago (1040+ words) by Andrew Mioni · July 7, 2026 [Editor’s note: Republished with permission from the author’s Substack.] But this misses a very simple fact, one that most people appear to be overlooking. The reason it was spelled out in an explanatory note is because…...
Pope Leo Sends Letter to Mark US 250th
3+ week, 1+ day ago (115+ words) by Ariane Sroubek · July 5, 2026 Pope Leo XIV, the first pope born and raised in the United States, sent a letter to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States’ founding. Pope Leo then encouraged United States citizens to “work together in…...
SSPX Consecrations: The Good, the Bad, and the Uncertainty
3+ week, 3+ day ago (1051+ words) by Pete Vere · July 3, 2026 In some sense this is an “after the fact” rewrite of my recent return to canon law and Catholic commentary. I am attempting to reflect and write as I grapple with an event overshadowing my celebration…...