In a recent podcast, Cardinal Kurt Koch, the Vatican’s Prefect for Promoting Christian Unity, said of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), “I’m not entirely sure one can already speak of schism.” The interview was conducted on July 2,...
In my recent article on the media coverage of the first year of Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate, I examined the letter from Cardinal Parolin to the French bishops, who met in Lourdes last week, and challenged the unlikely narrative put...
Over the past two weeks, the narrative that “Pope Leo is correcting Francis” has emerged with renewed vigor in English-language conservative Catholic media. Unlike the aesthetic differences that were desperately held up as dramatic reversals in the early months of...
Being Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction. Pope Benedict XVI wrote these words in his...
On Friday, Nov. 14, after months of speculation, Catholics finally learned that Pope Leo XIV does not intend to overturn Traditionis Custodes. Rome signaled instead that it will consider more generous, renewable two-year dispensations at the request of bishops. With...
It is no secret that the Catholic Church has faced mounting tension over its liturgical life in recent years. Since the publication of Traditionis Custodes (TC) in 2021, which restricted celebrations of the 1962 Roman Missal, many Catholics attached to...
Traditionalists often argue that Traditionis Custodes and diocesan limitations on the Tridentine Mass are unnecessary, punitive, and directed at sincere Catholics who only want to worship as their ancestors did. Some even insist there is no real cause — only...
[Editor’s note: This article originally included a comparison between the “liturgy war” in the Syro-Malabar Church in India and the implementation of Traditionis Custodes in the Archdiocese of Chicago. After speaking with several well-informed members of the Syro-Malabar Church, it became...
On July 1, on her Substack, Vatican journalist Diane Montagna released a leaked report from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF)[1] in response to the 2020 global consultation with bishops on the implementation of Pope Benedict’s 2007...
A Charlotte-area Benedictine has weighed in with his reflections on the anonymous letter and leaked document used to attack Bishop Michael Martin following his decision to implement Traditionis Custodes (TC), the 2021 letter from the pope placing restrictions on the...
For nearly three weeks, Bishop Michael Martin of Charlotte has faced a barrage of criticism stemming from his efforts to implement Traditionis Custodes in his diocese. The backlash to his May 23 letter — which stated that, as of July...
Last week I came across an article in my inbox, written by two respected scholars of religion and social science, Dr. Stephen Bullivant and Dr. Stephen Cranney. Bullivant is a Professor of Theology and the Sociology of Religion and serves...
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