The  oppressive, unhelpful, and unproductive  political situation we are in offers us a failed binary:  The libertarian right seeks to maxim...

So, people, see this . Apparently, the latest blahblahblah of synod business is not as extreme as it could have been: The document also does...

Pretty much. For the AP's take on the current state of the American Church, see this . Note the following: (1)   Here 's the church ...

 Dear all, Someone (I honestly don't know who) has somehow or other managed to contribute to the kind of humor that I once published on ...

Bishop Williamson agreed to depart in relative peace from the SSPX on condition that Bishop Fellay agree to send his agents to the basement ...

Our readers may be interested in learning about the anti-Covid protests (wrongly called an "occupation") going on in Ottawa, becau...

 A friend of this blog is currently in the process of applying to law schools with the ultimate aim in view of protecting children from sexu...

One does one wonder why so many of the generation that came to maturity in the 1960s and 1970s looks back to that era as the origin of a new...

Dante tried to teach us long ago that many clerics, including (the majority of?) popes, justly go to hell when they die. Those of you who en...

Word has come to the EF that  Enzo Bianchi , "prior" of the Bose Monastic Community  and confidant of Pope Francis, has communicat...

As the Vatican II generation continues to die off, it is so often a relief to see young people with real ardor for our holy religion replaci...

The EF’s contacts in Germany are reporting that his eminence, Walter Cardinal Kasper (b. 5 March 1933) passed away in his sleep early this...

Q. How many Anglo-Catholics does it take to change a light bulb? A. One to change the light bulb, and two to hold the cope. Q. How ma...

A dear friend of the EF has sent in this wonderful piece of satire that can give us some repose in the sea of turbulence in which we must l...

"Fact is stranger than fiction," it is often said, and this is one of those instances that proves that old adage true. According t...

Apparently, our enemies at The New York Times are aghast that Texas's recent anti-abortion law has actually been upheld in federal court...

As reported in The Week , it looks like Pope Francis has lost control of his staff in the Vatican. Michael Doughtery's article deserves ...

While ordering at a steakhouse : "Do you guys offer a vegan alternative for beacon ? Because I'm not opposed to the merciless slaug...

This time with an emphasis on the TACKY. Nothing says TACKY like Vatican II music! https://soundcloud.com/giuseppe_op/laudare-benedicere-p...

Instead of allowing conservative meanies with guns to shoot at deer, kill them, and eat their flesh, why don’t we inject all the does with...