Why this hatred of authority?
Authority resembles those secret agents so dear to Graham Greene, who conceal their identity to avoid losing it further in a bad encounter. It...
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What is the problem with Paul VI's mass?
More than fifty years ago, the Catholic Church adopted a new Mass that broke with the tradition of the Church in an unprecedented way...
Letter to Pope Francis regarding the Mass
Preamble This letter to Pope Francis was initially written for La Voie Romaine 1 to bear witness to the beauty and efficacy of the traditional rite...
Benedict XVI in Paradise!
— Is it morning or evening? My breath would catch, then catch again. As if it were malfunctioning. It was failing me. My lungs were leaving me. I breathed...
Prayer of the craftsman
12th-century monastic prayer: Teach me, Lord, to make good use of the time You give me for work… Teach me to combine haste and slowness….
News from Ernest Hello on fear and its perfections
Fear in general, therefore, possesses perfections that evil lacks. Perhaps the crucifixion was felt in a more terrible way in the Garden of Olives...
Antigone, defiant and intimate (2/7. The funeral)
Part 2: The Funeral — “My dearest Ismene. I came this morning to tell you that I've taken care of everything. I used the same funeral home for…”.
Antigone, defiant and intimate (1/7. The family)
Part 1: The Family From the very first reading of Antigone, an ambiguity arises in the reader's mind. Does Antigone embody the action or...
To which saints should we pray?
The Marcial Maciel affair forces us to confront the question of Evil. Our era avoids engaging with it. What do we know of the work of the devil, and what can we do about it?.
The abandonment of Benedict XVI
“Eli, Eli lama sabachthani?” 1 When Benedict XVI signified, in a few simple words, that he was renouncing the office of pope, it was a trembling of...
Christian testimony
When I started this blog, the idea of writing about liturgy came to me very quickly. Not to claim the status of a specialist...
Another year comes to an end…
As the year draws to a close, we often only glance at it briefly. We shouldn't dwell on it too much. We never know how many things we've forced ourselves to bury...
Monsignor Centène…
The people of Vannes are fortunate indeed. Bishop Centène's homily in Vannes Cathedral last Sunday was truly invigorating. This isn't the first time...
Priest of the "Benedict XVI generation"
Dear Father, It is with great pleasure that I bid you farewell. Not that I am happy that you are leaving the Notre-Dame du Lys chapel, but...