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Tale of a Troubled Transition
November 2022The protagonist of Mitre & Crook, Bishop Edmund Forester, determines to take a stand and do what he can to reverse the changes in the Church.
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Traditionis Custodes: Taking a Bulldozer to an Anthill
October 2021There are no protagonists in the latest liturgical drama, only antagonists. Nobody comes out clean, neither traditionalists nor Pope Francis.
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Making Sense of Our Liturgical Morass
December 2019We need a clearer understanding of the Church’s relationship with her past and her tradition that will help guide us along the uncharted road ahead.
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The Communist Era: Golden Age of Catholicism in Poland?
September 2019While the Church across Western Europe suffered reform gone wild, Poland was isolated enough to preserve her identity and fidelity.
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Francis or Fundamentalism: A False Dichotomy
October 2017After the Council, the majority of both liberal and conservative Catholics have found their standard for belief and conduct in shifting political ideologies.
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'The Remnant' Crosses the Rubicon
May 2016Debate, dialogue, discuss, argue, or even shout, as your personal taste in such matters dictates. But schism is never the answer.
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Traditionalist & Progressive Totalitarians in the Church
April 2016Laudato Si' has galvanized both groups: Progressives claim it espouses a radical ecological position; traditionalists counter that capitalism is the best hope for the poor.
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Losing the Liberals
March 2015As we mark the two-year anniversary of Jorge Bergoglio's election to the papacy, the extended honeymoon period with liberal Catholics that he enjoyed is coming to a bitter close.
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Action & Overreaction: Figuring Out Francis
June 2013Our new Pontiff has new ideas and a new manner of delivery. Even as we are jolted about by his surprises, we see that he is staying faithful to his mandate.
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Universae Ecclesiae: A Blow Against Liturgical Absolutism
July-August 2011A new Vatican document makes it clear that the old Latin and new vernacular Masses are both valid, a distinct refusal of liturgical absolutism.
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Traditionalism's Proving Ground
March 2010How bad have things gotten in the Catholic Church in France? Only 4.5 percent of all the nation's Catholics attend Mass at least once a week.
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Pope Benedict's Tightrope Act
March 2009The Pope's recent decision to lift the excommunications of four traditionalist bishops has sent shockwaves reaching far beyond Christendom.
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The Gnostic Traditionalist
June 2007The smoke of Satan is in both lungs of the post-conciliar Church, both the traditional lung and the non-traditional one, but it has a different form and different effects in each.
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Everyone Is Intolerant At Some Point
July/August 2006The National Catholic Reporter is mighty worried about the possibility of the Society of St. Pius X reconciling with Rome.
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Grand Detours From the Second Vatican Council
October 2005One of Vatican II's major problems was that its message of altruistic love and spiritual freedom was given to a society on the verge of cutting loose most of its social mores.
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Freedom of Religion -- in the Church
October 2005The pains and sufferings of our walking pilgrimage will be offered as a penance for the special intention of the resurrection of the Tridentine Latin Mass.
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The Traditionalists' Untraditional Ideas About Religious Freedom
April 2000Does Vatican II teaching on religious liberty deviate from the authoritative traditional teaching of the Church?
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Why Vatican II's Declaration on Religious Liberty Does Not Violate Catholic Tradition
October 1998Michael Davies’s own book reveals there is no contradiction.
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