If you're a Catholic, and you speak English as your native language, then you have a special heritage that you may not even be aware of. Traditional English Catholicism, lost in the Protestant world for centuries, has now been restored to the Catholic Church. It is called the "Anglican Patrimony" within the Catholic Church.... Continue Reading →
Not long ago, I was privileged and blessed to sit on the international editorial board that formulated the "St. Gregory's Prayer Book." I won't mention who the other men were, as I don't wish to speak out of place. Some of them may wish to remain anonymous, others may wish to speak in their own... Continue Reading →
What if I told you there is a place in the Ozarks where the priest always celebrates the liturgy ad orientem (facing east with the congregation), where communion is always administered on the tongue while kneeling, where the homilies are challenging and orthodox, where traditional customs (such as head-covering) are encouraged, where the only Catholic... Continue Reading →
A number of Catholics have contacted me recently, inquiring where they might find worthy, traditional, orthodox and reverent Catholic societies they might support in the wake of the current crisis now unfolding in the Church, both in the United States and worldwide. Naturally, the first thing I tell them is to support any traditional parish... Continue Reading →
Since writing my previous essay entitled Where to Find a Traditional Mass, I have been inundated with emails and messages from people saying that they don't live near any of these parishes, and asking me what to do. My first question is: what do you define as "near?" I know people who are driving over... Continue Reading →
I've blogged about this extensively, so I'm just going to make this short, sweet and to the point. The Catholic Church is in full-blown crisis mode now. It is unparalleled since the Protestant Revolution five-hundred years ago. It's going to get worse -- much worse. The only thing left to do now is protect your... Continue Reading →
I am a Catholic. The reason why I go to mass is pretty simple. I go to mass solely for one reason and one reason only. It is to worship God. I don't really go for any other reason. That's pretty much it for me. I go to mass because I know that is the... Continue Reading →
In a previous essay I relayed the personal difficulty the 2002 homosexual-abuse and paedophilia scandal brought upon my wife and I just a few years after our conversion to the Catholic Church. We nearly lost our Catholic faith over it, but we managed to survive. Others weren't so lucky. Here in the Bible Belt, I hear... Continue Reading →
Lamento que mi español sea pobre. Soy un hablante de inglés y este es un blog en inglés. Hoy les escribo en español para llamar a todos mis hermanos y hermanas católicos, no solo a mi familia de habla inglesa. Confío en que me disculparán por mi mala traducción al español y relacionaran el espíritu... Continue Reading →
