The Rad Trad

Whilst perusing the local parochial bookstore one never knows what one might find amidst the piles of pre-owned volumes of forgotten preconc...

In the following article I shall endeavor to make a case for the public re-introduction of the pre-1962 Roman liturgy, both Mass and Offi...

The Roman Church is much more traditional than it was twenty years ago, but one cannot say tradition governs that Church, at least not th...

Recently while reading the discourses of P. Gregory the Great with Peter the Deacon concerning the immortality of the soul, I came across th...

Something has bothered the Rad Trad for years, readers. It is the issue of valid ordinations to the diaconate and the priesthood, both th...

Underneath the glow of candles lit before icons of the Pantokrator and the Theotokos and the sweet scent of incense a current runs in Gr...

St. Peter of Verona receives the Triple Crown: as virgin, martyr, and doctor. In the twenty-seventh year of Thomas of Aquino's life...

(Benozzo Gozzoli) A prayer in today's Lauds exhorts us: O God, Who dost enlighten thy Church by the wonderful learning of thy bles...

( Thomas von Aquin bei Ludwig dem Heiligen , by Niklaus Manuel) Louis IX of France is known as a saint, a moral leader, an affectionate ...

"He that eateth My Flesh, and drinketh My Blood, dwelleth in Me, and I in him." To dwell in Christ, therefore, and to have Hi...

“I would like to commission an awesome carving of St. Gabriel.” While the Angelic Doctor has only a little to say about the Virgin’s spo...

I have criticized the prominence of neo-Scholasticism and the aphoristic attitude towards clerical education is elicited in the post-Triden...

Earlier the Maestro and I had a series of exchanges concerning the anaphora of Addai & Mari. Recently we discussed the relationsh...