On a warm late-July evening, I recently attended an outdoor performance of Shakespeare’s timeless A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The comedy was put on by students from Chesterton Academy, a relatively new Catholic...
Today is the feast of Saint Cecilia. Over 1,500 years ago, in Rome's Trastevere district, a young, polished and headstrong Christian noblewoman stood pat in the face of torture and death, ultimately winning...
It’s been one week since Pope Francis issued his motu proprio, Traditionis Custodes, which targets the traditional Latin Mass for eventual ecclesial extinction. The document shocked many Catholics, including public intellectuals and commentators like...
Here's a list (not exhaustive) of some reflections on the appeal of the traditional Latin Mass, particularly among younger Catholics. I am not asserting that these are exclusive to the traditional liturgy...
Today is the feast of Saint Edmund Campion. Evelyn Waugh's biography of the English Jesuit martyr presents us with a gripping account of his final days. Upon receiving the news that he...
Writing for the Catholic Herald, Father Alexander Lucie-Smith unpacks an important and widely overlooked concept known as romanitas. He starts with a review of a documentary on the Roman Empire by Mary Beard called Ultimate Rome:...
At the outbreak of COVID-19, dioceses across the world quickly put into place an array of measures to mitigate the spread of the virus. The public celebration of Mass was suspended and,...
Easter Sunday Masses in the parish parking lot went off without hitch today at Saint Stanislaus. It was a beautiful and certainly unprecedented Easter experience for priests and parishioners. (As soon as...
