Sermon given on August 29, for the Feast of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist By Fr. Richard Cipolla Today is the feast day of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist. I want to say thatthere are very few people who do not know the details of the story surrounding thebeheading—which actually has […]

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Rod Dreher comments on the favorable references to the Traditional Mass by recent convert Shia LeBoeuf. Mr. Dreher compares it to his own experiences with the Eastern liturgy. I can “relate to” what Mr. Dreher says, since I participated in the Byzantine (Russian) liturgy for years before the Traditional Mass became widely available. Mr. Dreher […]

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A Traditionalist should long for the Schism of the German Church – Martin Mosebach in an Una Voce interview. With the kind permission of Una Voce Korrespondenz CathWalk publishes the following interview (translated from the German by Stuart Chessman): Una Voce Korrespondenz: Before we begin our conversation you pointed out, almost like giving a musical key, that […]

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Join us on Saturday September 17, 2022 at 9 AM for the National Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage. We will mark the 15th anniversary of Benedict XVI’s liberation of the Traditional Latin Mass, and make a public act of sorrow/support of what we will be losing as the Diocese of Arlington and Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. impose […]

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Sermon for the Eleventh Sunday after the Octave of Pentecost By Father Richard Cipolla At once the man’s ears were opened: he was freed from the impediment and began to speak plainly. (Mark 7:36 ff) And what do you think he heard?  And what did he say?  What hath God wrought?  To be or not to be?  Awesome!  Cool! Amazing! […]

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Sermon for the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost By Father Richard Cipolla And they will not leave one stone upon another in you; because you did not know the timeof your visitation. Today’s gospel is not a parable, it is not a specific teaching of Jesus. It is one of the mostdramatic scenes in the Gospel: […]

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(I have been working on the following post on and off for months. First it was “Eight Months Later,” then “Ten Months Later” and now the first anniversary of Traditionis Custodes has passed!  My “writer’s block” was occasioned by the difficulty of saying anything new and a distaste for certain of the events I must describe. […]

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