A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to attend services several times at the Church of Saint-Eugène, Paris. This is a diocesan parish. Here the Traditional Mass is celebrated and a splendid musical culture is cultivated led by several noteworthy musicians. The Traditional Sunday Mass (the main Mass of the day) was thronged by […]

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“Virtus Signaling,” The Lamp, April 5, 2024. In 2020, I was dissatisfied by the initial offerings of the new Catholic magazine The Lamp. Too many contributors seemed focused on evading, instead of facing, the reality of the Catholic Church today. By 2022, however, a subset of that magazine’s writers – including its editor – had […]

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Meier, Michael, Der Papst der Enttäuschungen: Warum Franziskus kein Reformer ist (The Pope of Disapointments: Why Francis is no Reformer) Verlag Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2024 What does the progressive establishment think of Francis? You would think their evaluation should be entirely favorable. After all, under the Woke Pope (Newsweek) there’s virtual identity now between the positions […]

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…with one of her best posts: Pope Francis, the Venice Biennale and the Vaccuum of Belief Regarding patronage of the arts by the Roman Catholic Church, in the last few years attention had centered on the pseudo-Byzantine kitsch of the notorious Fr. Marko Rupnik. He is, by the way, still very active and in good […]

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A Defence of Monarchy: Catholics under a Protestant King Joseph Shaw, Ed. 186 pages Angelico Press, Brooklyn, NY, 2023 A Defence of Monarchy is one of the shorter books on Catholic political philosophy that I have recently read,  but it certainly is one of the best written, most colorful in its language and most challenging in […]

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