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Tale of a Troubled Transition

Mary Brittnacher

The protagonist of Mitre & Crook, Bishop Edmund Forester, determines to take a stand and do what he can to reverse the changes in the Church.

Traditionis Custodes: Taking a Bulldozer to an Anthill

TRADITIONALISTS AND POPE FRANCIS

Pieter Vree

There are no protagonists in the latest liturgical drama, only antagonists. Nobody comes out clean, neither traditionalists nor Pope Francis.

Making Sense of Our Liturgical Morass

Thomas Storck

We 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.

The Communist Era: Golden Age of Catholicism in Poland?

ISOLATION HELPED TO PRESERVE IDENTITY & FIDELITY

Michael Wisniewski

While the Church across Western Europe suffered reform gone wild, Poland was isolated enough to preserve her identity and fidelity.

Francis or Fundamentalism: A False Dichotomy

WHO ARE THOSE "CATHOLIC INTEGRALISTS" ?

Thomas Storck

After the Council, the majority of both liberal and conservative Catholics have found their standard for belief and conduct in shifting political ideologies.

'The Remnant' Crosses the Rubicon

GUEST COLUMN

John Médaille

Debate, dialogue, discuss, argue, or even shout, as your personal taste in such matters dictates. But schism is never the answer.

Traditionalist & Progressive Totalitarians in the Church

INDOCILE ABSOLUTISTS

Richard Upsher Smith Jr.

Laudato Si' has galvanized both groups: Progressives claim it espouses a radical ecological position; traditionalists counter that capitalism is the best hope for the poor.

Losing the Liberals

As 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.

Action & Overreaction: Figuring Out Francis

Our 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.

Universae Ecclesiae: A Blow Against Liturgical Absolutism

A new Vatican document makes it clear that the old Latin and new vernacular Masses are both valid, a distinct refusal of liturgical absolutism.

Traditionalism's Proving Ground

How 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.

Pope Benedict's Tightrope Act

The Pope's recent decision to lift the excommunications of four traditionalist bishops has sent shockwaves reaching far beyond Christendom.

The Gnostic Traditionalist

PUFFED UP

Thaddeus Kozinski

The 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.

Everyone Is Intolerant At Some Point

The National Catholic Reporter is mighty worried about the possibility of the Society of St. Pius X reconciling with Rome.

Grand Detours From the Second Vatican Council

A RESPONSE TO JOHN LAMONT

Robert Sungenis

One 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.

Freedom of Religion -- in the Church

ON PILGRIMAGE

Theresa Marie Moreau

The 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.

The Traditionalists' Untraditional Ideas About Religious Freedom

ARE TRADITIONALISTS SURE OF THEIR TRADITION?

Andrew Tardiff

Does Vatican II teaching on religious liberty deviate from the authoritative traditional teaching of the Church?

Why Vatican II's Declaration on Religious Liberty Does Not Violate Catholic Tradition

A RESPONSE TO MICHAEL DAVIES

Andrew Tardiff

Michael Davies’s own book reveals there is no contradiction.

Why Catholic Orthodoxy Is Not 'Catholic Fundamentalism'

THE CASE OF THE MISSING POSITION

Mark Lowery

What do the Dissenters in & around the Catholic Church Really Want? — Three Views

ON CURRAN, KUNG, THE LEFEBVRITE SCHISMATICS, ET AL.

Herbert J. Ryan, Avery Dulles & Richard Malone