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'No longer the same Church, if...' – Frank Sheed's red lines have all been crossed
Many people draw 'red lines', only to redraw them when they're crossed, or find ways to explain the crossing away.
 • S.D. Wright
First Sunday of Lent – Jesus in the Desert
Lent opens with Christ fasting in the desert for forty days, being tempted by the Devil, and being comforted by the Angels.
Published on Father Coleridge Reader • 
Top Five Lent Articles
Here are our favourite five sets of articles for the Lenten period.
 • S.D. Wright
What is the current law of fasting and abstinence? (Fr Francesco Ricossa IMBC)
The rule of fasting and abstinence that Catholic should follow is a controverted question. Fr Ricossa explains why the law of the 1917 Code is still in…
'Radically insufficient' – Reply to Fr Crean on the Church's visibility, Part I
Fr Thomas Crean appeals to the visibility of the Church as a means of refuting those who posit an extended vacancy of the Holy See. But this treatment…
 • S.D. Wright
Quinquagesima Sunday – The Preaching of the Cross, and Blind Bartimaeus
The pre-Lent season of Gesimatide ends with an announcement of the Cross, and the opening of the eyes of the blind.
Published on Father Coleridge Reader • 
Archbishop Lefebvre: Reflections on the 'suspension a divinis' (1976)
Following his 1976 ordination of seminarians against Vatican prohibitions, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre was declared ‘suspended a divinis.’ Here is his…
Sexagesima and Quinquagesima – The Crisis in the Church, and how to solve it
Noah's Ark is an image of the Church – even during this terrible crisis.
 • S.D. Wright
Sexagesima Sunday – The Parable of the Sower
We could even call it the 'parable of parables', as it holds the key to all the rest.
Published on Father Coleridge Reader • 
Kennedy Hall on whether the SSPX 'replaces the Church'
The nature of video shorts and tweets is that they don't give the whole picture. But sometimes the partial picture they give can be positively…
 • S.D. Wright
'Occupied by Antichrists' – Abp. Lefebvre's letter to the four bishops, 1987
What instructions did Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre give to the four men he had chosen to consecrate to the episcopate in 1988? Some might find them…
BREAKING: SSPX episcopal consecrations announced
The SSPX has announced that they will be consecrating bishops 1 July 2026, apparently without pontifical mandate, following Archbishop Lefebvre’s…
 • S.D. Wright
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