And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God, Who was seated on the throne, saying, “Amen. Hallelujah!”—Apocalypse 19:4. I have spent a lot of time around the Mediterranean the last two years in places like Greece, Egypt and Israel. This was primarily a reconnaissance mission to discover what it will take to get Muslims to become Christian, and to find what it will take to get Eastern Christians to become Catholic. The outcome of my travels, research and experiences was this: They will only become Catholic when we take our own patrimony seriously and stop denying our own Divine Revelation. Today's article is going [...]

This summer, Monsignor Nicola Bux claimed that Pope Benedict XVI wrote him about public accusations that he had bifurcated the papacy before he died.  Among other things, the late Pontiff allegedly wrote the Italian priest in 2014: "To suggest that I resigned only from the exercise of the ministry and not from the munus is contrary to clear dogmatic and canonical doctrine. If some journalists speak of a 'creeping schism', they do not deserve any attention." Even if Pope Benedict XVI had written that (something I doubt) the late Pontiff is still the one to blame for that rumor that there was a "contemplative Pope" and an "active Pope" over [...]

Many traditional priests tell lay people to mind their own sins, not the Church crisis. Similarly, many anonymous traditional accounts online who stood against the last Vatican regime now promote the current one. The overlap between the two groups of trads is this: Don't pay attention to the new Church crisis. Yet both groups still (thankfully!) espouse the analogy that as Christ the Bridegroom had to go to Calvary, so also must the Catholic Church (as Christ's bride) go through her final Passion. However, that puts us in a very awkward situation, because the same people who tell us the crisis ended following the 2025 Conclave can point to no [...]