Orientation
High-level explanations of why things feel wrong
Overviews of the Vatican II rupture and aftermath
“How to think, not what to do” pieces
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The Most Glorious Day
As I write this post, I sit in my dialysis chair at home and look into the empty air pondering the great mystery of salvation. Sunday means salvation, the Lord’s day, Easter. But what of it? Do I see salvation?… Continue reading
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Ora et Labora
My previous post spoke of building up the Kingdom of God. But that is easy to say, hard to explain, and even harder to do. How do we go about building up God’s Kingdom on earth? What practical measures might… Continue reading
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Where the Eagles Gather
I thought I would write a modern day novel about the Apocalypse without the dramatics of fire, famine, or fomenting mobs of angry zombies destroying everything in their paths like locusts. But the task seems too laborious and heavy without… Continue reading
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Strike the Shepherd, and the Sheep Shall Be Scattered
Iniquity reigns, chilling charity, scattering God’s flock. The shepherd is struck; the successor falters. Discover the path to genuine faith, beyond false doctrines. Continue reading
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The Kingdom of God Is Within You
The Anatomy of Spiritual Recollection When Our Lord declares, “The kingdom of God is within you” (Luke 17:21), He is not proposing a mystical slogan detached from doctrine, nor inaugurating a vague interior spirituality. He is naming the place of true worship.… Continue reading
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What the Restoration of the Church Actually Looks Like
The Church is eclipsed, not destroyed. She exists now as she has always existed: juridical, visible in principle, and bound to reappear recognizably within history unless Our Lord returns first. Any account of the present crisis that denies this is… Continue reading
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How to Be Catholic Today (When the Church Is in Crisis)
How do I become Catholic today?This is now the most searched question about the Catholic Church—and also the most misunderstood. For centuries, the answer was simple: believe the faith, receive baptism, submit to lawful Church authority, and live sacramentally within the… Continue reading
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A Tale of Two Eternal Cities
Rome never slept, though she forgot more each year what it meant to remember, and in that forgetting she learned to breathe easily while pressing her weight, untroubled and immense, upon the smaller lives hidden beneath her stones. Above ground,… Continue reading
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Orders Are Not Enough
The Problem Reappearing The belief that Holy Orders suffice for legitimate ecclesial authority is not new. It emerges most forcefully during periods of crisis, when ordinary governance breaks down and men with sacramental power continue to act as though power… Continue reading
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The Dark Night and the Poverty of Sensation
When Saint John of the Cross writes of the dark night of the soul, he is not describing an episode of spiritual melancholy, nor a temporary dryness remedied by better music, warmer fellowship, or heightened affect. He is naming a work of God… Continue reading
