In the days after the SSPX consecrations of July 1 and subsequent excommunications, the ever-perceptive Gregory DiPippo of New Liturgical Mo...

Photo courtesy of G Photography and Films This next trip around the sun will mark twenty years of writing in the Trad Catholic space. In tha...

Thinking about the sad events of the last week, I could not help but be struck by the complete failure of negotiations on both sides. The ba...

Today, June 29 2026, is the nineteenth anniversary of this blog, which I launched on June 29, 2007 when I was only 27 years old and working ...

The news as of late has simply been dominated by the spectre of the impending SSPX consecrations in July. I have hitherto avoided any discus...

[Apr. 29, 2023] The big news this week has been the revelations by Bishop Vitus Huonder, retired Bishop of Chur (Switzerland) that Pope Fra...

[Nov 1 2022] Today I am happy to present a guest post from Kevin Tierney, who has often graced this blog with his insights over the years. T...

" A final consideration concerns those faithful who for various reasons choose to attend churches officiated by priests of the Frate...

In the context of the posts I have been doing lately on the SSPX and the nature of schism , an interesting question was raised: to what ...

This article is a follow up to my recent post on the question of schism. In that post, I looked at what constitutes a schism broadly as p...

I was initially going to do this post on the question of whether the SSPX were truly in a state of schism or not. However, upon reading a...

It is official. The Vatican has offered the SSPX a personal prelature as the mechanism by which the Society of St. Pius X and Rome can b...