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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
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
Vatican II and the Immaculate Conception
Why was Paul VI permitted to choose the Eve of the Immaculate Conception as the date for the final promulgation of the documents of Vatican II – and…
 • S.D. Wright
Did Pope St Pius X condemn Newman in Lamentabili sane?
Every now and then we are told that Newman taught a proposition condemned by Pope St Pius X in Lamentabili Sane. Fr Edmond Benard shows that this is not…
‘I will not pray with you, and you shall not pray with me' – Bl. Margaret Clitherow vs. Leo XIV
The memory of our holy English martyr, Bl. Margaret Clitherow – pressed to death by the agents of the Anglican schism – has been betrayed by Leo XIV and…
 • S.D. Wright
'Una Cum Masses' – Some explanations for my friends (Maxence Hecquard)
The French philosopher and academic Maxence Hecquard considers one of the most important questions of our time.
Did Cardinal Manning really accuse Cardinal Newman of ‘ten distinct heresies’?
In honour of the 180th anniversary of Newman's conversion: Why this anecdote is of absolutely no worth.
 • S.D. Wright
Did four cardinals accuse Newman of heresy?
Is it true that so many eminent men accused and refuted Newman – and what would it mean, if this were so?
 • S.D. Wright
Fr Marín-Sola OP on Cardinal Newman's orthodoxy
Rather than condemning Newman, this rigorous Thomist affirms, critiques, corrects and complements his work, bringing it into a scholastic framework …
 • S.D. Wright
Should we care what Archbishop Lefebvre had to say? (with Index of Articles)
And is it fruitful to speculate on what he might say now?
 • S.D. Wright
Leo XIV invokes ‘tikkun olam’, a concept of Jewish Kabbalah
Let’s break down what Leo XIV’s cringeworthy reference to ‘tikkun olam’ does and does not mean.
 • S.D. Wright
'Strong in the Faith': Fr Noël Barbara + a new series on The WM Review
Fr Noël Barbara was one of the early pioneers in the defence of the faith after Vatican II – and yet his writings are not well-known in the Anglosphere.
 • S.D. Wright
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