Liturgy
“The People Are Saying Something”
Why keep talking about all of this? Why keep digging, excavating, learning, remembering, reflecting? Because it’s all still so unsettled. Because historical narratives shift, change and are theologized, spiritualized and ...
Cardinal Sarah: Opposition to the Traditional Latin Mass Will Die Out with the ’68 Generation
Cardinal Robert Sarah says the aversion to Latin and Gregorian chant among some in the Church will die out with the generation that created it. In a new interview with ...
Liturgy Wars—The Latest Volley: A Papal “Thus”
In recent months a number of prominent attempts have been made to double down on the party line that the liturgical reform following the Second Vatican Council conforms to the ...
Pope Leo Implies Latin Mass Lacked Conscious Participation of the Faithful
Pope Leo XIV suggested that those who attended Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) before the liturgical changes after the Second Vatican Council participated as “strangers and silent spectators.” In a general ...
The Coming Catholic American Rite
It’s been over a year since I last wrote about the new Catholic pope. In that piece on Pope Leo, I concluded that his background in economics and connection to ...
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 ...
Vatican Says “No” (for now) to German Bishops’ Request for Lay Homilies
The Vatican's unspoken message to the German Bishops: Don't get too far out in front of our Synodal reforms.... The Vatican has rejected a request from the German bishops for ...
I Don’t Like Cute Liturgies
A cute liturgy projects its cuteness onto God Himself; a cute God is easily trivialized, ignored, forgotten; and a forgotten God—since human beings by nature long to worship something—will soon ...
Irony Alert: Trads Follow Vatican II on the Liturgy Better Than the Novus Ordo World Follows It
In the recent much-discussed letter from Cardinal Parolin to the French bishops, conveying the sentiments of Leo XIV, a certain phrase sticks out: “May the Holy Spirit suggest to you ...
WATCH: Why the Liturgy Was Changed, and What We Lost
In this episode of Catholic Unscripted, Katherine Bennett and Mark Lambert are joined once again by Brian Williams to explore the Catholic liturgy, the changes of the modern era, and ...
Bishop Strickland: Watchmen at the Altar
When Silence, Confusion, and the Loss of the Sacred Endanger Souls My brothers and sisters in Christ, There are moments in the life of the Church when a shepherd feels ...
Cardinals Dodge the KEY Issue at the Consistory
Help is not on the way. Yesterday, in a cautious optimistic post about this week’s meeting of the College of Cardinals, I observed that “it is difficult to imagine how ...
The Mass Psychosis of the Catholic Revolution
How the Liturgical Industrial Complex Propagandized the Liturgical Reform and Pulled Off A Coup The real puzzle about the liturgical changes after Vatican II is why they happened. Why the ...
Leo’s Neutralization Strategy for Tradition
How Rome corrals the old Mass into reservations, flatters the SSPX with parchment, and uses a domesticated trad media class to keep everyone calm while Leo quietly finishes the revolution ...
Don’t Rush the Silence: Rediscovering Stillness in Mass
In talking to a pious young priest the other day, one who strives for punctilio in keeping all the rubrics in place while saying Mass, I asked about the length ...
Same-Sex Blessers and Amazon Rite Advocates Now Oversee Traditional Orders
What better way to safeguard the future of consecrated life than by handing it over to men who bless same-sex couples, advocate pagan syncretism, and treat the priesthood like a ...
Fr. Perricone: Looking Backward in the Diocese of Charlotte
The persecution of tradition is not a new story, but the latest—and probably final—attacks from the Woodstock-era Bishops have a fresh tyrannical twist. Any Catholic with a pulse recognizes that ...
WATCH: The Plot to Destroy the Church
Katherine Bennett and Gavin Ashenden discuss the insights of Peter Kwasniewski regarding the liturgical issues facing the Catholic Church. They explore the significance of tradition, the impact of modernism and ...
WATCH: The Post-Conciliar Consensus is Breaking Down
Catholics Unscripted members discuss liturgical changes implemented after Vatican II with Dr. Peter Kwasniewski. Be sure to also watch the post-interview discussion between Gavin and Katherine ...
WATCH: The Prayerful Posse Weighs-In On The Charlotte Liturgy Controversy
As tensions rise around the future of the Traditional Latin Mass, The Prayerful Posse dives into the latest crackdown in the Diocese of Charlotte. Bishop Michael Martin has moved all ...
They Want To Cancel More Than Just The TLM
They’re coming for kneeling, for chant, for Latin, for beauty, for tradition in any form. For decades, Catholics attached to tradition were told to settle down, blend in, and be ...
