“Ah yes, but here in France we don’t really care about religion anymore.” – said to me by an acquaintance on a recent weekend trip My first name is Stephen, given in tribute to...
Many years ago Nicholas Wansbutter and I started TradReviews, a website forerunner of the current radio program on our Network. As time went on the site was lost amidst numerous other projects we were...
In one of my businesses, I write and ghostwrite content for small businesses. In that part of my life I have to engage in a practice that I despise as a writer but reluctantly...
Birthdays make you think of the past and one of the things I often think about is the militancy of our Patron Saint here at True Restoration. His order, even in its current apostatized form, still had...
I recently promoted the game of Chess on TradReviews. For those interested in the game, I wrote some thoughts on a recent experience here.
I wrote this essay in 2008, as part of a class that comprised my Catholic Studies Minor. It’s a reflection on St. Ignatius’ autobiography. We present it as part of the ongoing project to...
“I’m not a scholar or an academic. I’m just passionate about the liturgy.” I smiled at the words of a kindred soul. It was a sunny Friday in Paris and I was chatting with...
This last week in the Luxembourg Gardens, my favorite large park in town, I was sitting with a friend, “taking in the sun,” as they say here, and was accusing myself of being a...
This season on Restoration Radio we had an episode on relocation. I think the episode did a good job of offering different perspectives, and featured guests who had all relocated for the Mass and...
A previous edition of this post stated that the fast and abstinence rules do not apply on the Feast of the Incarnation and on Maundy Thursday. After a question from a reader and further...
