If you've never watched the lectures of Dr. Iain MacGilchrist on YouTube, do yourself a favor and look him up. I first came across his w...

Back in October, I caught up with an old buddy of mine from high school that I haven't seen since before the pandemic. We grabbed a movi...

The big news this week is the Vatican approval of what is being referred to as the "Mayan rite" of the Mass. Traditionalists react...

I am still working through Nicholas Orme's magnum opus Going to Church in Medieval England (which I intend on doing a review on in the ...

It is becoming increasingly clear to me how vehemently our modern culture loaths symbolism. Our society is so ridiculously analytical, so bu...

Hey everyone! Blessed Feast of Christ the King in the traditional calendar. I hope you all are well. I've been very busy and have had le...

One thing that’s so nice about Europe is the walking culture. Because the vast majority of European cities emerged before the invention of t...

A lot of Catholics ask me for advice on how to process what is unfolding these days. Events are really challenging people's paradigms of...

Don't ask me why, but sometimes I imagine myself in the Middle East—in somewhere like Erbil or Mosul—and I imagine getting kidnapped by ...

Peter Kwasniewski recently kicked up a hornet's nest with two articles on his substack Tradition and Sanity lauding well-ordered social ...

The following is a guest post submitted by a friend of this blog who wishes his reflections to remain anonymous.

Let's talk about married priests. Well, not married priests per se, but our attitudes toward married priests. I had a very unpleasant i...

In his classic 1937 work The Crisis of Civilization , Hilaire Belloc convincing argues that the rejection of the Catholic Church at the time...

Everytime I post something on my YouTube channel , there are always a band of obnoxious OrthoBros who show up in the comments chiding me for...

If you consider yourself a devout Catholic, then your devotion should be the most attractive part of your personality. Like turning on a lig...