An SSPX Deal: But Will the Fat Lady Sing?
“The opera ain’t over till the fat lady sings.” — George H.W. Bush OUR FORMER president’s allusion to Wagner’s interminable four-opera “Ring Cycle,” which ends after fourteen confusing hours with a...
View ArticleThe Leader is Always Right! Fellay, Il Duce, and the SSPX Deal
IN THE FACE of what looks more and more to be an impending deal between SSPX and the Vatican, observation of an English traditionalist on the Ignis Ardens forum speaks volumes about the mentality of...
View ArticleBishop Fellay, The Three and the SSPX Deal: A Preliminary Analysis
THE EXCHANGE of letters in April 2012 between three SSPX bishops (Bernard Tissier de Mallerais, Richard Williamson and Alfonso de Gallaretta, April 7, 2012) and SSPX Superior General Bernard Fellay...
View ArticleYoung People and Conflicts among Trads: A Talk by Fr. Cekada
WHEN YOUNG PEOPLE who have been raised in the traditionalist movement get into their teens and twenties, they start to ask questions about why there seem to be so many conflicts within the ranks of...
View ArticleSGG Young Person’s Field Guide to Potential Trad Spouses
IT ISN’T easy to be young and a traditional Catholic these days. Practicing the faith – and even just getting to Sunday Mass – requires a lot more effort and determination now than it did when I was...
View ArticleSSPX Bishops on Bishops and “Bishops”
Williamson on Dolan, Tissier on “Neo” Bishops, Fellay on Both by Rev. Anthony Cekada OVER THE past few weeks, the topic of episcopal consecrations has come up several times. Bergoglio (“Pope Francis”)...
View ArticleAbp. Thuc: A Conversation with Fr. Cekada
A video from True Restoration Media and some links ANYONE familiar with my writings and the history of the traditionalist movement knows that while I was initially skeptical of the validity of the...
View ArticlePersonal Recollections of Abp. Thuc
A priest who lived with the archbishop as a seminarian in 1982–3 offers insights into the prelate’s personality and character. By Rev. Anthony Cekada IN A PREVIOUS post, I presented a video I had...
View ArticleSSPX, “Resistance” and Sedevacantism: A New Video
A conference by Most Rev. Donald J. Sanborn IN A clearly-presented and tightly-reasoned 110-minute talk, delivered in London on Dec. 21, 2013, Bishop Sanborn lays out the case for sedevacantism. He...
View ArticleShould I Assist at a Mass that Names “Pope Francis” in the Canon?
Sedevacantists should be consistent, especially since the advent of Bergoglio. by Rev. Anthony Cekada ONE HOT TOPIC endlessly discussed on traditionalist forums over the past few years is whether...
View ArticleStuck in a Rut: Anti-Sedevacantism in the Age of Bergoglio
A video by Rev. Anthony Cekada THE ELECTION of Jorge Mario Bergoglio by the March 2013 conclave was a turning point in the ongoing dispute among Catholic traditionalists over the question of the pope:...
View ArticleWhy Do Traditionalists Fear Sedevacantism?
A LENGTHY book by R&R (“recognize and resist”) controversialists John Salza and Robert Siscoe, soon to be published by the Society of St. Pius X, prompts this question. In this video, Father Cekada...
View ArticleThe Tribal Myth-Keepers: Salza and Siscoe on Sedevacantism
IN THE FIRST four days of 2016, my video Why Do Traditionalists Fear Sedevacantism? managed to rack up a respectable number of views. It also provoked a testy post by John Salza and Robert Siscoe,...
View ArticleIf I Were Not a Sedevacantist…
A New, Short Video I’M happy to pass along an excellent little video by Fr. Nicolas Desposito, a colleague and theology professor at Most Holy Trinity Seminary in Brooksville, Florida. The point: If...
View ArticleThe Pope Speaks: YOU Decide!
A video by Rev. Anthony Cekada THE YEAR 2016 will be a banner year for traditionalists to argue over the question of the Pope. First, there will be the ongoing antics of Bergoglio, aka Francis, the...
View ArticleSSPX and Bitter Fruit: Look Who’s Talking!
Video by Rev. Anthony Cekada AN EXAMINATION of the Society of St. Pius X’s charge that sedevacantism produces “bitter fruit,” which some “disproves” its theological reasoning. Historical perspective:...
View ArticleMarcel Lefebvre: Sedevacantist
A video by Rev. Anthony Cekada Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre made many statements that support sedevacantism, the theological position held by Catholic traditionalists who believe that the Vatican II...
View ArticleDead on Arrival: True or False Pope
by Rev. Anthony Cekada IN JANUARY 2016, the Society of St. Pius X published a 700-page book touted as the definitive refutation of sedevacantism and the ultimate vindication of the...
View ArticleTrue or False Pope: A Dignified Burial
IN FALL of 2016, Messrs. Salza and Siscoe published a 25,000- word response to my video Dead on Arrival, in which they attempted to explain away their earlier and egregious mixup of basic theological...
View ArticleThree Vatican II Errors: A Two–Minute Course
OK, MR. OR MRS. TRAD — you always tell your Novus Ordo friends how bad “Vatican II” was. But can you actually give them examples of the Council’s main errors? Matthew Arthur and True Restoration to the...
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