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Review: 'The Liturgical Rosary' from Arouca Press
You could use a different set of meditations for the Rosary every day of the year – and still not have exhausted this little book from Arouca Press.
 • S.D. Wright
Worth a gamble? Kennedy Hall’s 'Sedevacantist Wager'
Is it 'safer' to act as if the post-conciliar claimants to the Holy See really have been Popes?
 • S.D. Wright
What we can learn from bad reactions to the 'sede' Sisters of St Thomas Aquinas online
The point here is not documenting a meaningless Twitter drama, but drawing out the interesting questions and principles behind it.
 • S.D. Wright
Review: 'Inferno' by Augustine Virgil – 'A Journey through Modern Hell in search of Eternal Truth'
Read this hilarious and edifying new work published by Stabat Mater Press.
 • S.D. Wright
What We Built in 2025: Annual Report of The WM Review's Output
A comprehensive 'horn of plenty' of Catholic material for the current crisis in the Church.
 • S.D. Wright
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A side-chapel in the Conciliar/Synodal Church - Fr de Blignières' proposal
Traditionalists are to be what Bishop Fellay once called 'Dinosaurs' in a 'Zoo.'
 • S.D. Wright
The last sermon of Mgr Guérard des Lauriers (Feast of the Holy Name)
The Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus and the crisis in the Church were the bishop's two themes in a sermon delivered less than two months before he died.
Why Christ was given the Holy Name of 'Jesus'
The first imposition of the Holy Name of Jesus on the infant God-Man was no less a fulfilment of the Old Covenant than the Circumcision. Fr Coleridge…
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The first drops of the Precious Blood
The Circumcision reveals Christ already acting as Redeemer, freely shedding his Blood with full knowledge, love, and consent.
Published on Father Coleridge Reader • 
Why did Christ need to be circumcised?
The Eternal God, needing no remedy for sin, validated the ancient rite by submitting to it – and thus abolished it forever.
Published on Father Coleridge Reader • 
What was the purpose of circumcision – and who circumcised Jesus?
Why did the sinless Infant submit to a rite designed to cancel original sin and bind men to the Mosaic Law?
Published on Father Coleridge Reader • 
Why the secular Christmas is so rubbish
It's not because they leave the Baby out of the picture, because often he is included.
 • S.D. Wright
Here's why Our Lady’s perpetual virginity is a necessary Christmas truth
She was a virgin before, during and after the birth of her Divine Son.
Published on Father Coleridge Reader • 
Bonus: The King appears for the first time at Christmas
But no door opens to receive him, except that of a little stable cave.
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Classic study radically overstates Lefebvre's position on holy orders
It’s been claimed that Lefebvre 'never called in question the validity of the new rite of episcopal ordinations.' This is an untenable claim, even if…
 • S.D. Wright
'I do not hesitate to administer conditional confirmation when asked'—Archbishop Lefebvre
Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre wrote to Abbé François Pivert in 1988, explaining his rationale and willingness to confirm conditional confirmation freely…
'Painful uncertainty'—new rite of holy orders critiqued in 1978 by Athanasius Kröger OSB
This Una Voce group was publishing some very daring material in the early days.
Can liturgical changes affect validity? Cardinal Vaughan says yes
Cardinal Vaughan stated that systematic liturgical changes demonstrate the intentions of those responsible for them, and can render the rite of doubtful…
Fr Zuhlsdorf, Michael Davies, and doubtful sacraments
'Father Z', aka Fr John Zuhlsdorf, responded to our article on whether the new rites of holy orders are valid. Here's our reply.
 • S.D. Wright
Classic study calls conditional ordination a 'measure of prudence'
In his defence of the new rites of episcopal consecration, Fr Pierre-Marie OP nonetheless refers to conditional ordination as 'the usage that seems to…
 • S.D. Wright
Former Jesuit and pro-life stalwart conditionally ordained to the priesthood
Fr James Marshall, pro-lifer and former member of the Society of Jesus, has been conditionally ordained by Bishop Germán Fliess of Bishop Donald…
 • S.D. Wright
Classic study admits invalid rites would NOT destroy hierarchy
In his classic study defending the new rites of holy orders, Fr Pierre-Marie OP himself rejected the objection that, if they were invalid, then the…
 • S.D. Wright
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