Laudem Gloriae

Under the reign of "Good Queen Bess", a law was passed prohibiting the celebration of Mass, on pain of extradition. On a second of...

Rorate Caeli has a beautiful series on St. Joan of Arc , written by Côme de Prévigny. The most moving, perhaps, is the last installment, in ...

He whose heart is ever watchful taught me that He works miracles even for those whose faith is like a tiny mustard seed, to make it grow, wh...

Saint Gemma Galgani, letters Jesus spoke these words; "My child, I have need of victims, and strong victims, who by their sufferings, t...

Noel! Noel! Noel! Noel! A Catholic tale I Have to tell! And a Christian song I have to sing While all the bells in Arundel ring. I pray good...

Montmartre, Paris, 1946. Photo: Edward Clark, LIFE

Mundabor puts into words some of what I've been thinking about all this. One might respect Hitchens for a number of reasons: his willin...

We know the story of St. Philip Neri, who, on seeing a murderer being led to the gallows, said in all sincerity, "There but for the gra...

More like this, please!

With all the recent talk about the feminine genius, it's time to recall what seems a forgotten notion: the masculine genius. Anthony Eso...

Archbishop Fulton Sheen was National Director for the Society for the Propagation of the Faith for a number of years, and came across some r...

Remember the incident involving Fr. Laurent Demets, FSSP ? The rest of the story here: Three months after the actual incident, without the ...

it would undoubtedly look like this one, in Dunrobin Castle, Scotland, down to the blood-red drapes, dark wood paneling, and even the leonin...

Highland Scene, Richard Sidney Percy, oil on canvas, year unknown.

A reader queries Fr. Z: "[S]hould the Aztec dancers present the gifts before or after the priest incense the altar?" And he's ...

The bishop of Aberdeen on this most necessary habit: There can be no real relationship with God, there can be no real meeting with God, with...

But if you don't care, then it doesn't matter. I have here sometimes used the provocative image of the TLM being the grown-up Mass (...

On Sept. 16, 2010, Travis and Bonnie Engstrom prayed for an hour straight that their stillborn son, James Fulton Engstrom, would take his f...

Professor Luc Perrin offers an overview of French Catholic Traditionalism from its beginnings to its current status: The lack of support fr...

This is the sort of mangled reasoning modernists have used to foist their wreckovations on contemporary parishes everywhere. In response to ...