"The Christian Church—that is, the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church we profess in the Nicene Creed—is Israel. Christian Zionism erroneously conflates Biblical Israel—the people of God of the Old Testament—with the modern State of Israel created from whole cloth in 1948.

Just got back from the Covadonga pilgrimage in Spain, a 3-day, 60-mile trek in the company of 1,500 infectiously joyful Catholic pilgrims, walking from Oviedo through glorious Asturian countryside to Covadonga, one of the most dramatic shrines in the world—the starting point of

I am happy to say that all the lectures I gave in Spain are now available as PDF downloads thanks to Una Voce Seville. The text is given in parallel columns of English and Spanish. Me complace anunciar que todas las conferencias que impartí en España ya están disponibles en

The definitive takedown of Mike Lewis and "Where Peter Is." Fr. Edward Hauschild makes all the right definitions and distinctions, drawing on the relevant sources. open.substack.com/pub/sursumcord…

The challenge now is helping Catholics distinguish between Newman's idea of development of doctrine and the perversion of that idea by progressive Catholics today. Newman: A seed can grow into tree. Progressives: A seed can become transgender.

What do Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Pieper, Ratzinger & Scruton agree on? Music has a profound effect on the formation & development of our human potentialities & moral character. Read more in my interview today. traditionsanity.com/p/interview-wi…

John Henry Newman was a traditionalist "avant la lettre," for reasons explained in the following pair of articles: newliturgicalmovement.org/2019/10/st-joh… newliturgicalmovement.org/2019/10/st-joh… He is often misunderstood or brought in to support progressivist points. Any serious reading of him shows this to

The next Doctor of the Church is one who was skeptical of the trend of an ecumenical council, hoped for a different pope, & repeatedly insisted on the centrality of tradition. If Newman were on faculty at Sacred Heart Seminary in Detroit, he'd be fired. lifesitenews.com/blogs/pope-fra…

St. John Henry Newman: “A true development [of doctrine], then, may be described as one which is conservative of the course of antecedent developments being really those antecedents and something besides them: it is an addition which illustrates, not obscures, corroborates, not

If you simply READ Newman's Essay on the Development of Doctrine, you can see that he opposes any sort of evolutionism of new beliefs, that is, the core principle of modernism. He insists that any new formulation must not conflict with or contradict what has been taught before.

Stuart Chessman of the Society of St. Hugh of Cluny has written a fine review of my latest book "Close the Workshop." « Kwasniewski acknowledges that the TLM and the Novus Ordo stand in direct contrast to each other and spells it out in great detail. And Kwasniewski frankly

In this edition of the Weekly Roundup: Sackings in Detroit • Hyperpapalism Blues • Doctor Newman • Four Years of Prison Guards • Ratzinger on Lefebvre • Liturgical Lessons • Philosophical Ponderings • Political Pronunciamentos—and more! traditionsanity.com/p/weekly-round…

Ahead of his canonization in 2019, I decided to make a study of John Henry Newman's writings on worship, reverence, and ritual. What I discovered amazed me anew with its richness, variety, and eloquence. In addition to a few passages already well-known to traditionalists—such