Tradition
When Synodality Meets A Closed Door
One dispute can be dismissed as a misunderstanding. Two can be blamed upon personality. By the time Catholics from several unrelated parishes are signing petitions, marching by torchlight, questioning the ...
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 ...
Leo’s “Church of Welcome” Bans SSPX Pilgrims from Assisi and the Old Mass from St. Peter’s
A hundred or so traditional Catholics walked into Assisi last Sunday carrying wooden crosses, a statue of Our Lady, banners of St. Pius X, and the sort of religious baggage ...
WATCH: Leo Is OUTPACING Francis In Attacking Tradition
Pope Leo XIV is outpacing Pope Francis, and proving Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò's warnings correct. The panel examines controversial decisions that reveal a pattern: Bishop Lizardo Estrada Herrera was appointed ...
A Church Without a Tongue: More and More Cardinals No Longer Master the Language of the Church
More than two-thirds of cardinals would now barely master Latin. What at first glance sounds like a marginal note for classical philologists could, in reality, reveal one of the deepest ...
WATCH: Bishop Athanasius Schneider – “The Liturgy is Tradition in its Most Powerful and Solemn Form”
The auxiliary bishop of Astana (Kazakhstan), Athanasius Schneider, defended the traditional liturgy as a privileged expression of the transmission of the faith during a homily delivered on August 2 at ...
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 ...
WATCH: The Cristero War Song Catholics Need Today
*VIVA CRISTO REY* is a Traditional Catholic battle hymn honoring the Cristeros of Mexico-the farmers, laborers, priests, and young martyrs who rose to defend the Holy Mass during the Cristero ...
Doctrinal Pitfalls To Each Traditional Group
This is a very long one, but I think you’ll find it worth it if you can find the time to sit down and read it. It’s ultimately to unify—not ...
Traditionalist Benedictines Save Dying French Abbey As Liberal Cistercians Admit Defeat
Even if we had said 'no' to the arrival of our brothers from the Barroux to Bellefountaine, they would have had no trouble finding other places. We cannot go against ...
And What Should Laypeople Do?
Much is being written about the episcopal consecrations of the SSPX from the lofty perspective of someone discussing the problem with a legal manual. And that is as it should ...
Churches Turned Into World Cup Viewing Rooms and Pasta Bars While Traditional Mass Pilgrims Get Hotel Basements
World Cup screens in San Antón, pasta in Innsbruck Cathedral, a managed consistory, and the FSSP turned away. The church of San Antón in Madrid has begun showing Spain’s World ...
WATCH: SSPX Launches Beautiful Documentary on the Priesthood
TRADITIO – For the Love of the Church is a three-part documentary series presenting the life and apostolic work of the priests of the Society of Saint Pius X throughout ...
Hold Fast to What? Were Those Traditions Ever Written Down?
“Stand firm and hold fast to the traditions that you were taught by us, either by word of mouth or by our letter.” 2 Thessalonians 2:15 That verse creates a ...
The Appearance of a Comet and the Conversion of the Church to Catholic Tradition
There are things that light up the night like a comet, and sometimes it seems as if they make the extent of the night tangible in an instant. When the ...
Fr. Perricone: Why Every Catholic Is a Traditional Catholic (Or Should Be)
T'is a pity when a word dies. It is conceived in the womb of a certain culture, and it gestates in that culture until its meaning is set as firmly ...
Schism for Thee, But Not for Me: The SSPX, Leo XIV, and the Vatican’s Double Standards
On February 2, the Society of St. Pius X publicly announced that new episcopal consecrations will take place on July 1. The Superior General, Fr. Davide Pagliarani, says he requested ...
Thirty Years Buying Time: When Rome Bet That the Problem Would Die on Its Own
It’s best to stop with the pious pretenses. What has happened with the Society of Saint Pius X is not an accident, nor a sudden outburst, nor a “flight forward” ...
Five Arguments in Favor of the Use of the Communion Rail
In the wake of the controversy over the ban on communion rails by the Bishop of Charlotte, in contrast to their recovery by the Bishop of Portland, an interesting reflection ...
What’s the Top Priority in the Diocese of Charlotte? Eradicate Altar Rails
Thankfully, the Church in western North Carolina has a liturgical heavyweight to guide it, a true giant of the faith. From his episcopal letter, "on the reception of holy communion": ...
Traditional Catholic Spirituality: The Remnant and the Poor of Yahweh
I was initially shocked to hear Fr. Murr say that for over six decades there has been no proper catechetical teaching in the Church. I suppose I had assumed, or ...
