« The history of liturgy after Constantine is a passing from the holy to the sacred, that is, from informal spontaneity and improvisation to formal rigidity and fixity, from humble homes of hospitality to grand worldly churches rife with sacerdotalism, from the post-religious

IVF is the flip side of the contraception coin: Contraception is sex without babies; IVF is babies without sex. Both separate what God has joined together. Both are wrong. Only the Catholic Church as an institution maintains moral sanity on these issues. If the Church were the

Basically every rite is acceptable, including another one completely made up from scratch, except the Traditional Roman Rite.

Happy 200th birthday, Anton Bruckner! In this essay I pay tribute to the spiritual & theological dimensions of his music, an expression of his intensely lived Catholic faith. The voiceover incorporates abundant musical examples. traditionsanity.com/p/happy-200th-…

Last night attended a concert of a trio: recorder, lute, and viola da gamba, playing Couperin, Weiss, Handel, Telemann, Vivaldi, and Bach. The Baroque is supreme. Here's one of the works they performed, which I was not familiar with before. youtube.com/watch?v=VvIRtE…

For years, people have been asking me, “Can you share a list of the best books about X, Y, and Z?” It therefore gives me great joy to announce The Tradition & Sanity Bookshop, which brings together carefully curated lists of titles in dozens of categories, including: - Catholic

A good article on why modernists and sedes are wrong. Not a complete treatment (there's plenty more that could be said), but still worth reading for what it contributes. onepeterfive.com/the-hyperpapal…

Canticum Salomonis is pleased to announce the publication of a pocket-sized edition of the traditional Roman Office of the Dead, featuring the full Office (Vespers, Matins, and Lauds) according to the 1568 Roman Breviary. This edition includes the Latin text with a facing English

Robert Moynihan & Matt Gaspers hosted me on Inside the Vatican's podcast. We took as our point of departure the claim in my Gardone lecture that the Novus Ordo is solely modern in content due to the principles and methods used to compose it, such that it marks a decisive rupture

Today at Tradition & Sanity, I set forth what I mean (& do not mean) by my claim that the Novus Ordo is illicit & address the consequences this has for the moral culpability & spiritual health of Catholics of different categories (lay & clerical). traditionsanity.com/p/clarificatio…

Very exciting to receive in the mail the first copies of my new book from TAN Books! In his blurb on the back, Karl Keating, founder of Catholic Answers, writes: "The public argument in favor of the Traditional Latin Mass has been waiting for a book that handles common

In less than a month will be held the Arlington-D.C. Pilgrimage (aka the National Latin Mass Pilgrimage), in its third year. Anyone in the DC area, make sure you take part in this. Such public events have their importance, both as a witness ad intra and to attract attention ad

There's nothing wrong with questioning narratives, especially when those narratives reach an untouchable status and are then used to promote anti-human and anti-Christian policies. crisismagazine.com/opinion/questi…

Some "traditional Catholics" attack classic social dancing as evil, with wildly out-of-context quotes from Church Fathers, buttressed by the gloomy thunderings of Jansenists. Today at Tradition & Sanity, three writers respond to this nonsense. traditionsanity.com/p/why-catholic…