The Rad Trad

A correspondent wrote to me confessing a slight faintness with the gravity of Catholic teaching on the Eucharist, that Christ is not mere...

One of the Catholic doctrines most alien to a convert, but also the most urgent spur for conversion, is the long-disused extra Ecclesiam ...

Being born and raised in the largest American religious group, I spent many years watching my fellow Evangelical Protestants go through c...

"In times of difficulty the Holy Spirit raises up saints within the Church," Fr. Capreolus preached at Mass this Pentecost Sun...

(source: Wikimedia) Today is the feast of Robert Bellarmine, one of the brightest lights of the Counter-Reformation. His writings are ut...

Ceiling of St. Mark's in Venice. "The Light of Christ enlightens everyone who comes into the world," the priest says betwi...

"Praise and worship" need not amount to a ol' fashion Holy Ghost throwdown with a revivalist preacher at a Wednesday Bible...