The Rad Trad

Inaccessibility remains the greatest hurdle of the traditional Roman rite to the faithful of the Latin Church. It is not the priest "fa...

One of the most beautiful Masses in the Roman Missal is that of August 15, the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin. The Mass is an interesting ...

The old lists of "Catholic Necessaries" once found in missals and prayerbooks include such helpful reminders as the Ten Commandmen...

Vespers in the Church of S Francis in Assisi  by Mikhail Petrovich Botkin My edition of the Breviarium Romanum  is an  editio post typicam  ...

Given the surreal state of the world during and after the Corona Contagion it may seem difficult to appraise the state of the Roman liturgy....

"Science" is a word. Some self-purported secularists and rationalists seem to believe "science" is a spell, an incantati...

Are you "fancy"? "[Rad Trad], you are verrrrry fancy," I was told by a coworker, chewing and spitting out the words in...