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Pray for Another Pope St. Pius VMay 5, 2023Feast of Pope St. Pius VDear Friends of Catholic Tradition,May is a month full of celebrations and devotional opportunities. The feasts of the Ascension and Pentecost will occur within this month. The entire month is dedicated to our Blessed Mother and many churches will hold May crownings and processions in her honor. May 13 marks the anniversary of the first apparition of Our Lady of Fatima. The month is crowed with the Feast of the Queenship of Our Lady (May 31). Yet, there is a very important feast that seems placed...

The Missal Crisis of '62Fr. Patrick Perez Whatever else may be said about modern Rome, at least one thing hasn’t changed: In its official documents, Rome chooses its language carefully and deliberately, and what is not stated can often be as important as what is. Bearing in mind this fact, and the fact that those writing Roman documents these days are thoroughly imbued with the post-conciliar mentality, one condition of all the recent indults granted for the celebration of the traditional Latin Mass should arouse immediate suspicions on the part of any Catholic who still retains his ability to...

The Mass of Saint Pius V: The French Bishops Raise a Shout with the PopeThey want to maintain the right of veto against the use of the Tridentine missal. But Benedict XVI is set to liberalize it. Arinze’s harangue against the postconciliar liturgical abuses by Sandro Magister ROMA, November 13 – The French bishops met in plenary assembly last week, in shock over the news that Benedict XVI is about to grant wider authorization to the celebration of the Mass ‘of Saint Pius V.’ The French bishops feel themselves to be particularly affected by this news because it is in...

On the same day when the Vatican made public Benedict XVI’s message for the World Day of Peace next January 1, cardinal secretary of state Angelo Sodano sponsored a meeting at the Pontifical Lateran University — the grand chancellor of which is the pope’s vicar, cardinal Camillo Ruini. The meeting focused on a topic crucial for the Church’s geopolitics: “Christianity and Islam, Yesterday and Today.” In his message, Benedict XVI pointed to “nihilism” and “religious fanaticism” as the two deep sources of Islamist terrorism. But the analysis at the December 13 meeting at the Lateran concentrated above all on the...

The Map Below shows the Christian fleet (L) and the Ottoman fleet (R) in route. A Turkish ship (Galley) is sinking. Nafpaktos the Jewel of the Corinthian Gulf , where the famous Naval Battle of Lepanto took place on Oct 7 , 1571 .The Gulf of Lepanto is a long arm of the Ionian Sea running from east to west and separating the Pelloponnesian peninsula to the south from the Greek mainland to the north. Jutting headlands divide the Gulf into two portions: the inner one, called the Gulf of Corinth today , ends with the isthmus of the same...