Archive - Tradition and Sanity

SPECIAL: My Hopes, My Fears, and My Prayers for Leo XIV

(We’ll resume the usual Friday roundup next week.)

May 9 •

Peter Kwasniewski

Why the Traditional Rite of Confession Is Superior to the New Rite

Both are valid, but the old rite is richer in theological and devotional content

Jan 27 •

Peter Kwasniewski

Bloodbath in Tyler: Why (and How) Traditional Catholics Must Resist the Suppression of the TLM

The important role of temporary independent chapels in a time of persecution

Nov 11, 2024 •

Peter Kwasniewski

Pius X to Francis: From Modernism Expelled to Modernism Enthroned (Part 1)

The backstory of a seductive arch-heresy and an attempt at a definition

Feb 3 •

Peter Kwasniewski

SPECIAL POST: The End of a Pontificate from Hades

Twelve years of autocracy, instability, confusion, and error

Apr 22 •

Peter Kwasniewski

Bugnini Wanted to “Update” the Rosary—But Paul VI Wouldn’t Let Him

Plus: why the Rosary is so beloved — and why no pope could ever licitly ban it

Oct 7, 2024 •

Peter Kwasniewski

Why Are Some Churchmen So Opposed to the Return of the Latin Mass? (Conclusion)

Psychological, spiritual, and theological reasons for the resistance — as well as reasons for hope in a true springtime of tradition

Mar 24 •

Peter Kwasniewski

In Thanksgiving for a Papacy of Contradictions

For those willing to learn, Divine Providence taught much in the Bergoglian era

Apr 28 •

Sebastian Morello

“Ut Impleretur Instauratio”: The Inaugural Encyclical of Pope Gregory XVII (A Thought Experiment)

If the Church is one day blessed with a fully traditional pope, what might he do upon taking the Chair of St. Peter?

May 12 •

Peter Kwasniewski

Why We Should Follow the Traditional Catholic Numbering of the Psalms

The use of the Masoretic numbering betrays a misguided interreligious-ecumenical priority that dishonors the unanimous tradition of Greek & Latin…

Oct 21, 2024 •

Peter Kwasniewski

On the SSPX and the Situation of Catholics “in the Trenches”

The ordinary faithful are not expendable cannon fodder. They should go where their faith and families will be nourished.

Jun 19, 2023 •

Peter Kwasniewski

Lord Northbourne Confronts Thomas Merton on Vatican II

The clear-eyed critique of an English perennialist in dialogue with an American Trappist

Jun 23 •

Sebastian Morello

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