The Rad Trad

The Offices of Prime and Compline are unique among the Roman Hours. They are horae minores , "little hours", but look little lik...

"My wife is my best friend," I often hear. One hopes she would be and in many exemplary cases, she is. Yet realistic expectations ...

What is the future of the Eastern Churches, Catholic and Orthodox, in the United States? Or is there one at all? This sore subject has com...

I returned a night ago from New York City, where I was happily reconnecting with my best friend, and I have to say: the entirety of Manhatta...

"Hora Prima supprimatur." - Sacrosanctum concilium IV.89.d If the Second Vatican Council had passed no further legislation, decr...

Your gentle commentator J. Grump had not darkened the doors of Café Preténse for many months. His free time had been occupied with famili...

We live in unique times, or so we hear. Technocrats would have us believe that the effusion of data, screens, and information bring the ...