Lone Star Parson

Guess what punters, it's cold and raining here in the wilds of North Central Texas. Not unlike an English Spring, when you think of it, ...

  Never, ever forget the power of the Western Rite. Yes, it's more austere than its Eastern equivalent, perhaps less emotional, but cold...

  Like all true patriots I was going to post memes of Harambe tonight, along with not so subtle references to the UK's NHS screening me...

  Behold, Otto von Hapsburg is laid to rest. A friend was there, ordained by JPII no less, and loved it. Apparently people turned up in Deat...

Hilaire Belloc wrote this, in Europe and the Faith (1920) about the fall of the Roman Empire.  All that happened was that Roman civilizatio...

Europe, and by extension the West, is the Faith, a Faith which is increasingly, vehemently under attack. The burning of Notre Dame serv...

Via Forward in Christ magazine : Who will save Christian civilization with all its values and freedoms from the revolutionaries ...

Tomorrow's Palm Sunday and it always seems, liturgically, to be a bit of a double cross. We welcome Christ as King, Hosanna ...

Belloc -- the Anti-Crowley From time to time I like to read to read Belloc, one of the more aggressive catholic apologists of the last centu...

I haven't celebrated Mass there for years but I love the Anglican Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham , in Norfolk. I believe the place has...

Grand Mufti with Top Saudi Clerics In a characteristically irenic gesture towards peace in the Middle East, leading Saudi government cleric,...