+St. Thomas of Villanova+ It seems like another lifetime ago, but when my children were teens we lived in South Texas not very far from the banks of the Guadalupe River. One year following a spate of heavy rains the river overflowed its banks and threatened several...

+Feast of Our Lady's Seven Sorrows O Mother most sorrowful, pray for us who have recourse to thee! Last week’s blog mainly addressed the material formal issue. This week, as promised, the claim that those who left the Novus Ordo and became members of some...

Prayer Intention for September “That we may know the truth, and that the truth shall set us free” (2 John 1: 4-6)  +Nativity of Our Lady+ Novus Ordo conservatives struggling with their options after realizing Francis cannot be a true pope are trying to retrace the...

+St. Rose of Lima+ Because the three new articles on the front page (on epikeia, Intention in Traditionalist orders and Vacantis Apostolicae Sedis) are lengthy and yet essential to understanding the situation among Traditionalists today, an attempt will be made here...

+St. John Eudes+ Site revision nearly complete! The website revision begun a few months ago is nearing completion and hopefully readers are better able to navigate the site and find the articles they are looking for. Please note that we have three new “position paper”...

+St. Clare+ Today we celebrate the 72nd anniversary of the issuance of Humani generis. This infallible papal encyclical addressed many of the errors circulating not long after the end of World War II. Among them were some of those very errors and heresies which still...

+Feast of the Transfiguration+ Twice in one week now we have seen certain bloggers, presenting themselves as reliable sources of Catholic information, promoting the work of Dr. Ludwig Ott, Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma, as the end all, be all of theological sources....

+St. Peter in Chains+ Prayer Society Intention for the Month of August May God instill in us a true love of the papacy and may the Holy Ghost grant us the graces needed to appreciate and understand papal teachings. In every era of Catholic history, the laity has been...

+St. Anne+ I constantly field the accusation that what is presented on this site is only my opinion on what has happened to the Church. But facts, and especially the laws and teachings of the Church, are not opinions, and I try my best to base everything here on those...

+St. Lawrence of Brindisi+ I am not willing to devote any more time to these baseless allegations that are floating around about my last blog on immediate jurisdiction. Nor do I believe any of my readers are really interested in hearing more about them either, since...