Recently I became peripherally aware of a controversy in politically conservative media involving commentators Ben Shapiro and Candace Owens. My understanding (and please forgive me, I try to keep my knowledge of political punditry to a bare minimum) is that...
America’s Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell published an article Thursday reporting that Archbishop Georg Gänswein, Pope Benedict’s longtime private secretary and former prefect of the papal household under Pope Francis, has been appointed by the pope to serve in the Vatican...
Editor’s note: This is a response to the angry backlash by online traditionalists and other critics of Trad Recovery, written by member (and former traditionalist) Andy M. It was originally posted to the Trad Recovery blog, and is reproduced here...
A Catholic outlet based in Italy called The Daily Compass published an open letter written by someone claiming to be a cardinal of the Church in collaboration with other cardinals and bishops. The article, titled “A Profile of the Next...
As an addendum to my earlier reflections on the pope’s wish that priests of the traditionalist Fraternal Society of St. Peter (FSSP) concelebrate (or at least participate in) the annual Chrism Mass with their local bishops and brother priests during...
In recent years, members of the traditionalist movement have begun to turn the annual diocesan Chrism Mass into a sort of battleground. During Holy Week, in dioceses around the world, bishops gather with their priests to celebrate Mass and to...
Anthony (not his real game) was the fifth child in a family of seven kids, with the eighth on the way. He was extroverted, bright, and imaginative. At “meet the teacher night,” his mother warned me that this second grader...
Editor’s note: This is a long-form essay in five parts, all published simultaneously below. The word count is around 12,400. Part 1 The liturgical path of the Church after Vatican II Introduction The Second Vatican Council, a watershed in the...
It is not new for Catholics to grumble about a perceived lack of “backbone” from the pope. The failure of the pope to remove bishops who have gone rogue, to defrock priests deemed heretical, or to excommunicate openly schismatic leaders...
Editor’s note: This is the fifth and final article in a series by Andrew Likoudis entitled “The Liturgical Reform – Council, Consilium, and Papacy.” Part 5 will be published tomorrow. Click here for Part 1: “The liturgical path of the Church after...
For the past several years, the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, which is based in Southern India, has been riven over a liturgical reform. In one of the nastiest and most intractable intra-Catholic disputes in the world, the church’s general synod has...
Cardinal Odilo Scherer of the Archdiocese of São Paulo, Brazil, took to social media on Saturday to make a series of posts offering correction to several popular traditionalist claims about the Second Vatican Council and the liturgical reforms. Scherer, who...
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