The Tridentine Fallacy

What most people call the “Latin Mass” seems to have a bewildering number of names and many of them are imprecise for one reason or

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Thrills, a Poem

Hollow, empty spaces All the world so wide Distraction filling silence While the soul abides. The ego dances freely With the vapid little thrills Temptations

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The Language of Tradition

At the very edges of the culture you sometimes hear about how tradition is coming back. You hear how the John Paul II generation is

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Unraveling Saint Buddha

I see his blood upon the rose And in the stars the glory of his eyes, His body gleams amid eternal snows, His tears fall

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Unpacking The Rhineland Mystics

Books on spirituality and \”self help\” line the shelves of bookstores, stories on the same topics call at people from the magazine racks. The millions

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