Publication: Tradition and Sanity
Fr. Fessio’s “Reasons Against Women Acolytes and Lectors”
Fr. Joseph Fessio, SJ, is a man who needs no introduction. Most famous for being the founder of Ignatius Press, he played an important role at the 1987 Synod of ...
Is Traditionalism a Dead End? Or Is It the Only Way Out?
Those who answer “yes” to the question posed in the title usually seem to take it for granted that we will somehow always have a majority liberal-progressive Church in which ...
Here’s Why They Are Taking Away Your Traditional Latin Mass
The past week has been buzzing with rumors to the effect that Leo XIV has instructed the Dicastery for Divine Worship to issue “extensions” on the TLM whenever bishops ask ...
Learning Our History As Traditionalists
I would say that I have been a traditionalist, in thought and feeling, for a lot longer than I have used that specific term to characterize the movement to which ...
On the SSPX Controversy
If you think the one or the other position is obviously, self-evidently, exceptionlessly correct — a “no brainer” — then I believe you might be a simpleton. As everyone knows, ...
Dialogue, Synodality, and the Nullification of Doctrine: The “Long March Through The Institutions” Continues
The following essay was written by Daniel Schwindt, who has kindly offered it to Tradition & Sanity. I highly commend his penetrating analysis, which opens up a line of critique ...
The Novus Ordo Has NOT Been “Received”—Nor Should It Be
Nowadays one often hears invoked the phrase “sensus fidelium,” which could be described as the supernatural instinct the faithful have for what is and is not compatible with the faith ...
Without God, We Are Nothing
We would not even exist if God was not every moment causing us to be. We would not be able to act without Him acting in us. We cannot achieve ...
We Do, In Fact, Like the Latin Mass
It is often forgotten that the authors of the 20th-century liturgical reform were marked by a strong optimism with regards to the visible fruits of their project for the Catholic ...
History Repeats: How the Dutch Council of the 1960s Anticipated Bergoglian Synodality
I’ve been surprised at the extent to which Catholics nowadays seem to be unfamiliar with the fact that all the business on synodality as promoted by and under Pope Francis ...
Here’s Why They Are Taking Away Your Traditional Latin Mass
The past week has been buzzing with rumors to the effect that Leo XIV has instructed the Dicastery for Divine Worship to issue “extensions” on the TLM whenever bishops ask ...
Simply Saying the Novus Ordo in Latin Is NOT the Solution
In the wake of Traditionis Custodes, it seems that not a month passes without some presumably well-intentioned prelate or pastor suggesting that a satisfactory substitute for canceled traditional Latin Masses ...
Damning Exposé of Bugnini in Prominent Liturgist’s Rediscovered Memoirs
Archimandrite Boniface Luykx is not exactly a household name. Yet he was a very important figure in his day—and his theological memoir just published by Angelico Press, A Wider View ...
The End of a Pontificate from Hades
On Easter Monday, Pope Francis went before the fearful judgment seat of Christ. There is no need to sugar-coat his departure with pious platitudes, as the mainstream ‘c’atholic media will ...
Why Are Some Churchmen So Opposed to the Return of the Latin Mass?
As we saw in the first part, the objection that the TLM “prevents active participation” turns out to be not only weak, but ironic, since the old rite seems to ...
Do Christians and Muslims “Worship the Same God”?
Why the “Perennialist School” — like Pope Francis's “all religions are paths to God” — is incompatible with Christianity In recent days, the internet has been ablaze with commentary on ...
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 ...