Is the SSPX Really a Refuge for Traditional Catholics?
Where do traditional Catholics go from here? Of course, all Catholics should be 'traditional', in the sense of preserving, living by and handing on...
Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes
No Pope is impeccable, even if, by virtue of their office, they are at times infallible – or, more precisely, a few of their...
A Sombre Anniversary
As we commemorate this day, February 24th, the official beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, we should all be praying for some sort a...
The Problem with Sedevanctism
(With Father James Altman's recent declaration on the question of sedevacantism, here is a re-post of something I wrote earlier in the summer, and...
Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile
I just finished reading Joseph Pearce’s biography of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, subtitled ‘A Soul in Exile’, a remarkable book, packing a very full life into...
Digital Dopplgangers
Here we go, with another 'leap' in the A.I. revolution, digital copies being made of products, factories, towns, villages, animals and, ambitiously, of ourselves,...
A Few Words on Infallibility
On this July 18th, 1870, the First Vatican Council, at the impetus of Pope Pius IX, proclaimed the dogma of papal infallibility. Some were...
From Conspiracy to Confirmation
At the beginning of the 'vaccine' mandates, many were criticized as conspiracy theorists - tin-foil-hatted crackpots - for simply questioning the safety and efficacy...
Pope Leo’s First Days and Inaugural Mass
The signs have been hopeful in this first week of Pope Leo XIV's pontificate - full regalia, clear teaching, warm demeanour, pastoral yet doctrinal.
On...
Lost Lectures or The Fruits of Experience
Maurice Baring, Lost Lectures of the Fruits of Experience.
Peter Davies Ltd, London: 1932. From: High-Brows and Low-Brows
Over and over again it has been my fortune...
