Columnist: Peter Kwasniewski
Dr. Peter Kwasniewski: Popesplainers Will Have to Face Almighty God
Dr. Peter Kwasniewski had some words of warning for Catholic Bishops who are trying to explain away the significance of Fiducia Supplicans. In a series of Tweets, Dr. Kwasniewski stated: ...
Premature Celebration
The point is not the "Synod documents" but the process of perpetual synodalism A very good priest whom I highly respect had this reaction to the concluding document of the ...
Bishop Victor Fernandez: From Church to Movement
On September 11, another of Argentina's most beloved sons, Archbishop Victor Fernández, took office as Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith. Two Argentines are at the top ...
Liquefaction of the Faith on the Eve of the Synod
On Wednesday of next week, the Synod (it is no longer a Synod of Bishops because of Pope Francis' expanded circle of participants) on Synodality will begin in Rome. Its ...
Resisting Papal Overreach: The Story of Bishop Isidore Borecky
Everyone by now has heard the news that Pope Francis, on the recommendation of the U.S. papal nuncio and the visitators, is expected imminently to request the resignation of Bishop ...
Is a Synod of Horrors Coming Our Way?
Recently I heard a lady being asked about the "synodal church." Her answer was as succinct as it was accurate: "Please! I'm Catholic, not synodical." I can only agree with ...
Conundrums About Interpretation: What Is a Catholic to Do?
Recently here at Crisis Magazine, Casey Chalk published “The Protestant Doctrine That Gave Us Pro-Trans Churches,” detailing the impossible tangle that results from sola scriptura and offering a fine summary ...
Dozens of Billboards Go Up Around Rome in Defense of the TLM
Starting this morning, and lasting for 15 days, several dozen billboards dedicated to the traditional liturgy will be posted near and around the Vatican. An organizing committee, whose members are ...
Pope Francis to Georg Gänswein: Pack Your Bags and Leave by February 1?
The German weekly Die Zeit has published the news that the Pope wants the former personal secretary of Benedict XVI far away from the Vatican. According to German media, Archbishop Georg ...
The Welcome Demise of Enforced Optimism
The meltdown of the Church in the West since the Second Vatican Council doubtless has many and complex causes, but I am convinced that the foremost cause of it is ...
African Priest Responds to Pope Francis: “You Have Scandalized the Whole World Several Times by Contradicting Christian Tradition”
Abbé Janvier Gbénou (pen name: Father Jesusmary Missigbètò), who has frequently been in the news on account of his outspoken critiques of Pope Francis (see, e.g., here, here, and here) ...
Why Restricting the TLM Harms Every Parish Mass
Thanks to the inspiration of Joseph Ratzinger’s writings on liturgy, and especially the “rising tide” effect of Summorum Pontificum, a grass-roots movement to restore sacrednessto the modern rite of Paul ...
In the Midst of Crisis, Be Driven by Faith, Not by Fear
In our days, we are seeing an intensification of the spiritual battle as the situation within the Catholic Church continues to deteriorate. Battles have casualties, and some of those casualties ...
Why Scandals In The Catholic Church Should Not Lead Us To Abandon Ship
It has been objected that Christianity makes the refutation of itself impossible by claiming both that the gates of hell will not prevail and that false shepherds will come. So, ...
It’s Time for Civil Disobedience in the Name of Fidelity to Christ
Catholics around the world admire Archbishop Sample for many things he has said and done. For example, he is one of a select few bishops in the world who regularly ...
Was Chief Architect Of New Mass A Freemason? New Evidence Emerges
Last week, a major exposé appeared as two Moynihan Letters (#26 and #28) at Inside the Vatican and was then republished at the traditionalist blog Rorate Caeli. It takes the ...
Dr. Peter Kwasniewski Responds to Bishop Christensen’s Ban on Ad Orientem Mass
The coronavirus crisis—to whatever extent real or exaggerated—seems, as with all crises, to be bringing out the best and the worst in people. Unfortunately, with a few exceptions like Bishop ...
7th Anniversary (God Help Us!) of Pope Francis’ Election
How Francis is Attempting to Complete the Destruction of the Church Begun by Paul VI. Author's Note: I drafted the following text on August 6, 2016, but never published it ...
Pope Francis: Catholics Shouldn’t be Afraid to Change Everything about the Church
Pope Francis's Christmas address of December 21 — the traditional feast of the doubting Thomas the Apostle and of the Ember Saturday of Advent — is exactly the antithesis of the ...
Pope Francis’s Hermeneutic of Anti-Continuity
Pope Francis’s Christmas address of December 21—the traditional feast of the doubting Thomas the Apostle and of the Ember Saturday of Advent—is exactly the antithesis of the famous “hermeneutic of ...
WATCH: A Fantastic Theological Review of the Amazon Synod
A complete theological analysis of this Synod would take many lectures, not just one, so I will have to be selective and brief. My talk today will have four parts ...
