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Editor's Corner
SSPX Plans to Cross the Rubicon…but the Wrong Way: Alea Iacta Est?
Well, perhapsĀ it was inevitable, given the intractability: The SSPX has decided to go ahead with the ordination of bishops on July 1st, 2026, which is just about 38 years to the day after the...
Editor's Corner
Saint Polycarp: Boldness and Baked Bread
The Church has had martyrs since her earliest days, and will have them unto the end of time. A number of prophecies attest that the number of martyrs towards the end will exceed those...
Editor's Corner
Leaning on Peter’s Chair
The Chair of Saint Peter, is a comforting one, a symbol of the 'pillar and bulwark' of the truth, which is the Church, signifying by synecdoche the office of the papacy, instituted by Christ,...
Editor's Corner
SSPX and the Staying in Barque of Peter
Things are, shall we say, fractious in the Church, when an Irish priest likens receiving Communion on the tongue to āfeeding animalsā, while the bishop of Charlotte forbids altar rails and discourages kneeling. Latin...
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Blessed Jacinta and Francisco Marto – The Youngest Canonized Saints, but Not the Least
On this day in 1920, February 20th, nine-year old Jacinta Marto died after great suffering, as she lay alone in a hospital bed. She had endured for weeks, including a vain attempt to alleviate...
Editor's Corner
The Seven Servite Saints of the Virgin Mary
The Seven Founders of the Servite Order commemorate the group of merchants who in 1233 left everything to follow Christ, with a special devotion to the Virgin Mary, particularly in her own union in...
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Saints Cyril and Methodius, and, Yes, Valentine
On this fourteenth of February, in the universal calendar we celebrate the ninth-century monks and missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius, patrons of Europe, who translated the Liturgy into Slavonic, with Cyril constructing the Glagolitic...
Editor's Corner
The Salvific Message of Lourdes
Our Lady of Lourdes is one of the few visions of the Virgin Mary to be placed in the public Liturgical calendar of the universal Church, along with her appearances at Fatima and Guadalupe....
