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“Give Us Back the Mass of Our Fathers!” Michael Matt delivers the extraordinary closing statement of the 2026 Catholic Identity Conference—a direct appeal to Pope Leo XIV, a warning against the continued suppression of Tradition, and a declaration that faithful Catholics will not be silenced or driven from the Church. The message is clear: Restore the Latin Mass—or face the resistance of Catholics determined to defend the Faith.

Only many years later did I realize that this satanic rampage I was on was, in fact, a search for God.

The short version of this article is that I am taking this next month offline, unless we (God-forbid) have another 9/11 or something. I am not only going to try to avoid posting and scrolling on FB, IG, X, and TG. I’m even going to do my best to refrain from writing articles or making [...]

Ed’s choice of news this week!

On the occasion of the apostolic visit of Leo XIV to France, from September 25 to 28, 2026, the French district of the Society of Saint Pius X published a message in which it announced the organization of times of prayer in its chapels for the intentions of the Sovereign Pontiff. 

The Society rightly recalled that the Augsburg Confession cannot be regarded as an expression of shared Christian belief.

The nodule was detected during a routine examination, with the Pope saying doctors recommended its removal.

The House Democrats’ Cost-of-Living Healthcare Working Group outlined a plan that includes a federal 'right' to abortion and taxpayer funding after the election if they gain power.

“Give Us Back the Mass of Our Fathers!” In this Underground, Michael Matt delivers the extraordinary closing statement of the 2026 Catholic Identity Conference—a direct appeal to Pope Leo XIV, a warning against the continued suppression of Tradition.

The oldest traditionalist group going back to 1964.

Müller challenges Vatican’s rejection of the title, defending Mary’s role in Christ’s redemptive mission.

by Rev. Cav. William Rock, FSSP, SMOCSG As long-time readers of the Missive are aware, for the past several years, in coordination... The post Maria SS. della Lavina 2026 appeared first on Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter.

Just as “usurpation begets usurpation”, so too does heterodoxy beget heterodoxy, heresy beget heresy, and false teaching beget false teaching.

Editor’s note: every year Columbus Day in the USA is the same day as Canadian Thanksgiving. Thus every year we give thanks for Columbus. “In fourteen hundred and ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue,” a chant familiar to every school-aged child in the United States. Well, let us hope that this is still the case! ... Read more

Full text of the Cardinal’s opening address at the Marian Conference “De Maria numquam satis”

“This University ... must seek to make the presence of God and His saints felt by faculty and students alike.”

p/c Pietro Torrigiano, John Fisher as a Young Man, Wikipedia. This is a letter I composed from one real bishop to another—the Bishop of Durham to St. John Fisher of England—but fictionally, some time in the 16th century. Your Lordship Bishop John Fisher, I greet you in the name of God, the most Blessed Trinity. [...]

by Rev. Cav. William Rock, FSSP, SMOCSG Most readers of the Missive are no doubt familiar with the prediction made... The post Blessing of Roses appeared first on Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter.

Bishop Schneider gave a powerful kenote address at the CIC 2026. He called out the hostile take-over of the Church going all the way up the ranks, yet encourages true Catholics not to fall into anger, bitterness or despondency. “Christ will overcome His enemies who managed to occupy influential positions within the Church," he states. Indeed, we believe and hope in Christ’s victory over the hostile takeover within the Church. Watch and read his address below!

The guiding principle of the gathering, and of the post-conciliar Church more broadly, is that human experience can redefine, reinterpret, and reshape the Church’s moral teachings.

Catholic Just War Theory indicates that US President Harry Truman, a Freemason, committed a heinous war crime against Japanese civilians.

The short version of this podcast is that I am taking this next month offline, unless we (God-forbid) have another 9/11 or something. I am not only going to try to avoid posting and scrolling. I’m even going to do my best to refrain from writing articles or making podcasts from 19 Sept 2026 to [...]

Context is always important, as I am wont to say.  For example, where are we in the liturgical year on this 20th Sunday after Pentecost?  Historically, in an earlier reckoning before the concretization of seasons, this was the 5th Sunday after the feast of St. Cyprian.  Bl. Ildefonso Schuster explains that Rome once reckoned Sundays ... Read more

Campaign Life Coalition warned that Canada's Liberal government is 'still bent on expanding death — it just changed its target' with plans to allow euthanasia for the mentally ill by advance request.

Many choices are being made.

October 1 is the Feast of the Protection of the Mother of God, which is honored in the Byzantine Rite and considered a major holy day among Slavic Christians.

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