Tradition & Renewal
Catholic scholarship at the intersection of Vatican II, liturgical renewal, ecumenism, and the digital age.
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Tolkien & Communion
The Catholic sensibility sees life as communion. This is the central claim from which every facet of theology and Catholic Social Teaching flows. Where the modern imagination begins with the autonomous self, treating community as a nice add...
A Chapel in the Rain
(Relic of St. Joseph of Cupertino, OFM Conv., in the background.)
A nice surprise in the mail from Poland today: my faith reversion story, “A Chapel in the Rain,” is featured in the September–October issue of Rycerz Młodych, a Catholic mag...
Aquinas and the Reform of the Roman Rite
A Thomistic objection to the liturgical reform, answered
A question was recently posed to me by a Catholic professor, one that he tells me comes up every year when his students read Aquinas on the change of law. He asked:
We Must Build
(Editors Note: This is a guest post from my friend Andrew Warfield. Seminarians in Boston and New York peaked in 1953; in Galveston-Houston, in 1959. The collapse we assign to Vatican II was underway a decade before it opened. Andrew...
Clericalism & Spiritual Abuse Within Traditionalism
Adapted from my chapter in Faith in Crisis: Critical Dialogues in Catholic Traditionalism, Church Authority, and Reform (En Route Books, 2025).
Editor’s note: During the review for its imprimatur, granted by the Archdiocese of Baltimore, a...
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Writing on Vatican II, tradition, the magisterium, and ecclesial reform. Balanced, unifying commentary for Catholics navigating today’s polarized Church.
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