A Tour of the Parkminster Charterhouse
Here is a very happy discovery, courtesy of the YouTube suggestion algorithm, a video which gives a tour of the Charterhouse of St Hugh, the only Carthusian monastery in England, located in the town of...
View ArticleReview of Abbé Claude Barthe, The Seven Sacraments, Past and Present: A Short...
Most of the debates about the post-conciliar liturgical reforms have centered around the new order of the Mass. The Consilium in charge of implementing the directives of the Second Vatican Council,...
View ArticleThe Basilica of St Vitalis in Ravenna
Following up on Monday’s post of the basilica of St Apollinaris in Classe, the ancient port city of Ravenna, here are pictures taken by the same friend of the church of St Vitalis in Ravenna itself....
View ArticleA Great Interview on Medieval Catholic England
Our readers will certainly enjoy this fascinating interview recently given by Dr Bonnie Lander Johnson of Cambridge University on the podcast of the Catholic Truth Society in England, hosted by the...
View ArticleObrecht’s Mass of St Donatianus
The Martyrology notes today as the feast of a Saint called Donatianus (‘Donatien’ or ‘Donat’ in French, ‘Donatiaan’ or ‘Donaas’ in Dutch), who served as the seventh or eighth bishop of Reims in France...
View ArticleThere Was No “Original Liturgical War”: A Response to Dmitri Solzhenitsyn
Communion of the ApostlesThe following article was published at Crisis Magazine on October 7, 2026, and is reprinted here with the kind permission of the editor Eric Sammons.In an article published at...
View ArticleLatin for Musicians Class with Veterum Sapientia Institute - Starting Next Week!
Join me online starting next Tuesday for the first part of a course offered by Veterum Sapientia Institute called “Latin for Musicians”. This course is designed especially for those who want to deepen...
View ArticleOn Gothic Art, Part 2
Late Gothic masters, the threshold of the Renaissance, and the birth of secular artLast week I introduced the Gothic tradition: its historical origins in the cultural shifts of the 12th century, its...
View ArticleThe Basilica of St Apollinaris in Classe
My thanks to a friend for sharing with us these pictures which he took during a recent visit to one of best preserved paleo-Christian churches in Italy, the basilica of St Apollinaris in Classe, the...
View ArticlePrayers for Pope Leo
As I am sure all of our readers have heard by now, during the Angelus in St Peter’s square yesterday, Pope Leo stated that his doctors had discovered a nodule in one of his lungs, “localized, and...
View ArticleThe Feast of the Holy Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council
In the Byzantine tradition, today is the commemoration of the Holy Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council, the second held in the city of Nicaea, at which the Iconoclast heresy was condemned, and...
View ArticleDr. Kwasniewski’s Lectures in Netherlands, Belgium, and England, Oct. 24-31
I will be giving the following four lectures in Europe between Oct. 24 and Oct. 31, and hope to meet NLM readers at the events. Please come up and introduce yourself!“The Thomistic Virtue of Religion:...
View ArticleSt John Henry Newman’s Church in Oxford
To celebrate the feast day of St John Henry Newman, here are some pictures I took of the famous university church of Oxford, St Mary’s, while I was there in August of 2019. St John Henry was appointed...
View ArticleThe Priest’s Final Prayers before Holy Communion, Part 3
Lost in Translation #171 After finishing the Perceptio Corporis tui, the priest prays: Panem caelestem accipiam, et nomen Domini invocabo. Which I translate as: I will take the heavenly Bread, and I...
View Article“The Myth of Post-Conciliar Decentralization” - A New Video from Unam Sanctam...
Our friend Phillip Campbell, author of the blog Unam Sanctam Catholicam, has just put up a new video on his YouTube channel, titled “The Myth of Post-Conciliar Decentralization,” which is very much...
View ArticleThe Festival of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, October...
David Clayton and Andrew Goldstein will speak on the theme: Beauty, Truth and GoodnessI look forward to attending and speaking at the annual festival of the Anglican Ordinariate of England, Wales, and...
View ArticlePope Pius XI on the Holy Rosary
For many years, it has been our custom to mark today’s feast with an excerpt from one of Pope Leo XIII’s eleven encyclicals on the Holy Rosary, but this year, I happened to come across the only one on...
View ArticleA Cardinal’s Liturgical Ordo from 1681
Of the three books I examined in Milwaukee, in many ways this was the most fascinating: a liturgical ordo for the year 1681 (MDCLXXXI), owned by a cardinal, as the beautifully gold-stamped white...
View ArticleThe Charterhouse of Pavia
For the feast of Saint Bruno, the founder of the Carthusian Order, here are some pictures from Nicola of one of the most beautiful of the order’s monasteries, that of Pavia in Lombardy, about 8...
View ArticleOn Gothic Art, Part 1
The art of pilgrimageIn this and another post next week, I want to look at the Gothic style of Christian art: where it came from, what makes it theologically and artistically distinctive, and how to...
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