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Divine faith does not admit “falsification events” for the Church – Editors’ Updates

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"It may be that they already have one foot out of the door."

The Ignoble Art of Missing the Point – Editors’ Updates

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St Paul did not say, "Accept what is true in a new Gospel and reject what is false."

The Conciliar-Synodal Church is not the Catholic Church – Editors’ Updates

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A "square" lacking the necessary property of four sides is not a square.

“We are the champignons, my friends” – Editors’ Updates

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"Some such cases could have been avoided with a simple, sober and modest explanation."

“Intellectual and Historical DNA” – Editors’ Updates

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"We must seize the moment, and explain the situation to those at a fork in the road."

The Judgment of Solomon: Open Letter to Latin Mass Catholics – Part III

On 5th March 20245th March 2024 By S.D. WrightIn Analysis, Ecclesiology, Liturgy, Theology3 Comments

"You must be wise enough to see who this woman is."

“An ecclesiology that is not part of the Church’s Magisterium”: Open Letter to Latin Mass Catholics – Part II

On 1st March 202410th March 2024 By S.D. WrightIn Analysis, Current Affairs, Ecclesiology, Rome, Theology, Tradition, Tyranny3 Comments

“Men of Catholic views are truly but a party in that Church.”

Collective Punishment: Open Letter to Latin Mass Catholics – Part I

On 28th February 20241st March 2024 By S.D. WrightIn Analysis, Ecclesiology, Liturgy, Prayer, Rome, Theology, Tradition6 Comments

"Are you not trying to be Catholics in a church which doesn’t want you?"

Infallible Safety? – Part I: Cardinal Franzelin’s teaching

On 18th January 20245th March 2024 By S.D. WrightIn Analysis9 Comments

Have we misunderstood what these theologians were talking about?

“Strengthen what Remains” – End of Year Round-up for 2023

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"Unfortunately, these examples are becoming more frequent, and closer to home."

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  • The Ordinary and Universal Magisterium of the Church – Chapter I of nineteenth-century work on the magisterium by J.M.A. Vacant

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  • The implicit and tacit expressions of the ordinary magisterium – Chapter IIIb of Fr J.M.A. Vacant’s nineteenth-century work on the magisterium

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  • The human mind’s ability to apprehend reality without the intervention of authority

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  • Learning Sacred Theology I: Preliminaries, Catechism, Latin, Philosophy and the Magisterium

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  • The Last Will and Spiritual Testament of Louis XVI, King of France

  • L’Abbé Henry Essex Edgeworth, Louis XVI’s heroic Anglo-Irish confessor

  • Holy Face Part V: our struggle against Communism

  • Announcement of the Fourth 54-Day Rosary Novena: For a worthy Roman Pontiff

  • Learning Sacred Theology III: Scripture, Moral Theology, History, Fathers, and Canon Law

  • Leo XIII on the Holy Rosary

  • How should Catholics treat private revelations?

  • Newman on “The Eternal See”

  • The Loss of Ecclesiastical Offices: Is Holy Church Unprotected?

  • Why the Rosary and the Immaculate Heart are Fatima’s Two Last Remedies for the World

  • The Lives of the Early English Saints: Prelude, and St Alban, proto-martyr of Britain

  • St Thomas Aquinas, Universal Doctor – Sermon by Fr Edward Leen CSSP, 1923

  • Our Lord in the Desert – from Fr Aloysius Ambruzzi SJ’s “Companion to the Spiritual Exercises”

  • The Holy Wrath of St Thomas Aquinas, by G.K. Chesterton

  • The Fioretti of St Thomas – Part I: His Life

  • St Thomas Aquinas on the Five Qualities of Prayer

  • The Fioretti of St Thomas – Part II: His Death

  • The Fioretti of St Thomas – Part III: The Miracles after his Death

  • Thoughts on the Consecration of Ukraine and Russia

  • An “Ottaviani Intervention” on Signs and Wonders

  • Possible Miracles, Possible Deceptions: How credulity can lead us to ruin

  • Fatima, Theology and the Crisis – What should be their relationship?

  • Portrait of a Pope: St Gregory the Great, Apostle of the English

  • The Mental Sufferings of Our Lord – meditation for Maundy Thursday from Cardinal Newman

  • Our Lord Refuses Sympathy

  • The Bodily Sufferings of Our Lord – meditation for Good Friday from Cardinal Newman

  • “It is Consummated” – To Our Lord in the Tomb

  • The Kingdom of God – Christ is Risen!

  • Hadrian’s Wall, St Oswald and the Forgotten Triumph of Heavenfield

  • God Alone – On St Thomas the Apostle

  • How can we teach Bible stories to children?

  • Devotion to St Joseph, Part I: Theological Reasons – Fr Bover SJ

  • Devotion to St Joseph, Part II: Logical Consequences – Fr Bover SJ

  • Pope St Pius V – “Crushing of the Enemies of thy Church”

  • St Gregory Nazianzen and the Crisis in the Church

  • Why St Robert Bellarmine was declared a Doctor of the Church – Pius XI

  • Portrait of a Pope: St Gregory the Great and the End of Imperial Rome

  • Humility – St Philip Neri Novena

  • Devotion – St Philip Neri Novena

  • Exercise of Prayer – St Philip Neri Novena

  • St Thomas Aquinas and the Church – His Intrinsic Authority

  • Purity – St Philip Neri Novena

  • Tenderness of Heart – St Philip Neri Novena

  • Cheerfulness – St Philip Neri Novena

  • Patience – St Philip Neri Novena

  • Care for the Salvation of Souls – St Philip Neri Novena

  • Miraculous Gifts – St Philip Neri Novena

  • It’s not a sin to have a sense of humour and be cheerful: Here’s what Aquinas and Neri have to say

  • St Thomas Aquinas and the Church – His Extrinsic Authority

  • Portrait of a Pope: The Reign of Odovacer in Italy

  • Profession of Faith, Heresy and Separating Oneself from the Church – Canonist Fr Augustine OSB

  • One year of The WM Review – thank you for supporting us!

  • Notes on the nature of heresy, in light of the unity of the Church

  • Is the Church Infallible in her Discipline? by l’Abbé Hervé Belmont

  • Rules for Thinking with the Church – St Ignatius, and Fr Aloysius Ambruzzi

  • The Life of St Friardus

  • What is Thomism? The Twenty-Four Thomistic Theses

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  • How are the glories attributed to Our Lady “fitting”?

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  • “To Love the Church is to Love Christ” – Fr John Kearney CSSp, 1939

  • “Do you pray to Our Lady as you should, as befits her?” from Georges Bernanos, 1937

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  • Why ignorance and prejudice are a dangerous mix – Cardinal Newman and the British Constitution

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  • How do we know what to believe with divine and catholic faith? Dom Charles Augustine OSB

  • What did Cardinal Newman say about the Rosary to a school of young men and boys?

  • The Rosary: A School of Contemplation – Garrigou-Lagrange, 1941

  • Bishop Ullathorne’s vindication of Newman’s writings on Our Lady

  • Short essay: “Idolatry Passports” and objections on the profession of faith and membership

  • Worth a gamble? A reply to Kennedy Hall’s “Sedevacantist Wager”

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  • One of the greatest pains of Purgatory and how to avoid it – Fr H.J. Coleridge SJ, 1889

  • Questions about Pope Honorius – a reply to Prof. Edward Feser, Part I of II

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  • What might Jairus’s Daughter tell us about the pains of Purgatory? Fr H.J. Coleridge SJ, 1889

  • Our Lady, the Rosary and the Holy Souls – Fr H.J. Coleridge SJ, 1889

  • CLASSIC BOOK REVIEW: The Life of the Fathers, by St Gregory of Tours

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  • How will we know the Church at the end of the world? Fr H.J. Coleridge SJ, 1894

  • The price of delay in relieving the souls in Purgatory – Fr H.J. Coleridge SJ, 1889

  • Barbarian and Roman: The Early Life of Theodoric the Great

  • “Seeking Christ by Reading” – from Dom Eugene Boylan’s classic “This Tremendous Lover”

  • Why is “unity of faith” so crucial for making the Church visible, according to Cardinal Billot?

  • How to explain the Immaculate Conception to non-Catholics – Cardinal Newman

  • Short essay: Is there a schism between traditionalists?

  • Loving Jesus Above All Things – The Imitation of Christ

  • Conscience and Unbelief – A Sermon for St Thomas the Apostle

  • Our Lord’s expectation of his Nativity, Part I – Fr H.J. Coleridge, 1885

  • Our Lord’s expectation of his Nativity, Part II – Fr H.J. Coleridge, 1885

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  • 2022 End of Year Review for The WM Review

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  • What is the difference between an excommunicate and an open heretic?

  • How should we behave towards those whom we think are in error? Fr A. Vermeersch, 1913

  • Are we obliged to believe every person who calls himself a Catholic?

  • The Last Will and Spiritual Testament of Louis XVI, King of France

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  • Why an understanding of “human acts” is crucial for moral judgments – Driscoll, 1920

  • The Church’s Unity of Faith – St Francis de Sales

  • What does Michael Lofton mean by “tradition”?

  • Candlemas, Passover and the buying-back of the firstborn – Fr H.J. Coleridge, 1885

  • Papal elections without the cardinals? – St Robert Bellarmine

  • What are the effects of persecution? Fr H.J. Coleridge SJ, 1885

  • Preparation for Tyranny: Persecution, Bravado and the Japanese “Hidden Christians”

  • Papal elections, including without the Cardinals – Journet & Cajetan

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  • The Insanity of Sin and the Glory of Christ – The Second Sunday in Lent

  • “The Angelic Warfare Confraternity” and chastity – Why the Cord of St Thomas Aquinas is so important today

  • Our Lady and the Gospel – A meditation for the Third Sunday in Lent

  • Do the Gospels tell us more about St Joseph than we realise? Fr H.J. Coleridge SJ, 1885

  • Book Review: “Christ in the Church” by Mgr Robert Hugh Benson

  • The Annunciation: Why did Isaias prophesy that “a Virgin shall be with Child”? – Fr H.J. Coleridge SJ, 1885

  • ‘Nirvana’ – Charles Bukowski, Heaven and Despair

  • When Our Lady became the Mother of Sorrows – Fr H.J. Coleridge SJ, 1885

  • Sacrifice and triumph – How does Christ’s passion reconcile us to God?

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  • The Bodily Sufferings of Our Lord – meditation for Good Friday from Cardinal Newman

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  • Book Review: “Christ in His Mysteries” by Dom Columba Marmion

  • The Apostolicity of the Church – Who are the Successors of the Apostles?

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  • Should Catholics avoid celebrating King Charles III’s coronation?

  • St Stanislaus and the dead man in his grave

  • St Gregory Nazianzen and the Crisis in the Church – Cardinal Newman

  • Why was St Robert Bellarmine declared a Doctor of the Church? Pius XI

  • The Apostolicity of the Church – The source of ordinary jurisdiction

  • Tradition and Antiquarianism in “Judith’s Marriage”, Fr Bryan Houghton

  • St John the Baptist and recent devotions – Fr H.J. Coleridge SJ, 1882

  • What is the state of a Catholic who submits to a “false magisterium”?

  • What is Theology? With a review of Mgr Joseph Clifford Fenton ‘What is Sacred Theology?’

  • John Henry Newman, Anti-Modernist – Part I

  • John Henry Newman, Anti-Modernist – Part II

  • John Henry Newman, Anti-Modernist – Part III

  • On the immorality of labelling other Catholics as “radical traditionalists”

  • Short essay: The Agony in the Garden and the unity of the Church

  • John Henry Newman, Anti-Ecumenist

  • St John the Baptist’s sufferings teach us about Christ’s Kingdom – here’s how (Fr Coleridge, 1882)

  • Orestes Brownson is not a credible critic of John Henry Newman – here’s why

  • “A fragrance of prayer” – review of Dom Columba Marmion’s ‘Words of Life on the Margins of the Missal’

  • What obligations are imposed by the “ordinary magisterium”? – Chapter IVa of Fr J.M.A. Vacant’s nineteenth-century work

  • We are all under the dominion of the Devil unless we are incorporated into Christ – Fr Anselm Stolz, 1938

  • Can the ordinary magisterium create new dogmas or obligations of belief? Fr Vacant explains

  • The doctrinal authority of the episcopal magisterium – what is it? JMA Vacant answers

  • What does the Church have to offer? – an extract from Mgr R.H. Benson

  • The Anglicanisation of Catholics – are we the “high-church wing”?

  • All about St Thomas Aquinas’ “The Angelic Warfare Confraternity” – Robinson OP, 1941

  • “Are you a King, then?” – Christendom and the Social Kingship of Christ

  • True and false miracles in the life of the Church

  • Does everything coming from Rome enjoy an “infallible safety”? – Franzelin’s text

  • Can non-Catholics have the theological virtue of faith? Fr Marín-Sola asks the question

  • Why the Church’s authority is indispensable for every act of divine faith – Fr Marín-Sola and St Thomas answer

  • “Behold the Man” – Fr Albert Maria Weiss OP on the astonishing person of Christ

  • “Strengthen what Remains” – End of Year Round-up for 2023

  • Infallible Safety? – Part I: Cardinal Franzelin’s teaching

  • Could an ‘heretic pope’ impose errors upon the Church? Gregory of Valencia SJ

  • Collective Punishment: Open Letter to Latin Mass Catholics – Part I

  • What kind of assent is owed to the different papal statements? Fr Anton Straub SJ

  • “An ecclesiology that is not part of the Church’s Magisterium”: Open Letter to Latin Mass Catholics – Part II

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  • “Intellectual and Historical DNA” – Editors’ Updates

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  • Cardinal Newman and the influencers of his day – What would he think of Catholic YouTube?

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  • Divine faith does not admit “falsification events” for the Church – Editors’ Updates

  • Cardinal Newman and the validity of Holy Orders – what would he think today?

  • New website and address – taking a pause at this one

  • Apologies for the email problem

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