My first Mardi Gras in Paris and Free Museum Day
No matter how long we spend prepping for it or how the Church prepares us through Septuagesima, I always feel Lent is upon me faster than I expect. I particularly enjoyed a friend’s piece...
Author: Stephen Heiner
The sadness of the European church
It was January 2000. My fellow sophomore classmates had just arrived at the lovely 15th century convent that would be our home for the semester. The nuns had happily ushered us in and were...
Edified
Some people have asked where I attend Mass here and I’m happy to share that for 8 years now, the Institute of Our Lady of Good Counsel have had a presence in Paris. The...
Thoughts on University
Some weeks ago I was discussing the importance of the Idea of a University with one of my former high school students now looking at graduation this Spring. He found some benefit from an...
Dispatches from Europe: Bishop Sanborn’s London Conference
Bishop Sanborn gave an excellent conference here in London yesterday and despite having interviewed him numerous times, I had not, until yesterday, heard him present a short case on the Catholic solution to the...
The new Hanc Igitur
A beach ball on the altar of Santa Maria Maggiore. No further caption needed. Picture from Novus Ordo Watch, who has the full story here.
Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate feel the full power of Francis’ fully operational Death Star
Have you ever had your Mass taken from you? Some of the “elders” in our Traditional parishes were around in the 1960s, when the changes started happening. But now, this feeling is no longer...
John Paul the not-Great-not-Saint
Novus Ordo Watch has an excellent post on the impossible situation that the Remnant and other recognize-and-resist crowd have put themselves in: saying that a man is the Vicar of Jesus Christ on Earth...
This is what a real Pope Saint looks like
For those dealing with the not-shocking news of the upcoming JPII “canonization,” we’d like to remind you of two things: 1) Despite what Fr. Peter Scott and the SSPX claim, canonizations DO fall under...
Republicans, Democrats, America, and Catholicism *Updated*
This morning, His Excellency sent me a pithy response to our listener which I have posted at the bottom of this post. Our show on America and Catholicism garnered a lot of interest from...
