In The Mailbox: 02.24.26

— compiled by Wombat-socho I’ll be on the road for the next couple of days en route to Confinement, Mike Williamson’s mini-convention/house party outside of Nashville. Blogging may be sporadic, but I think Rule 5 Sunday and the…

Saint Bernard was an idealist

What sort of man was St Bernard? Where did he come from? He towers over the twelfth-century Cistercian movement: such were his charisma and industriousness. On the face of it, the Cistercian project was conservative. Yet its protagonists…

How have the popes treated SSPX?

As the Society of St. Pius X is again on the brink of schism, perhaps a more traditional approach from the Holy See would serve the universal Church – and the adherents of the SSPX – better. The Vatican has attempted for nearly 40 years to…

How to Write Well – and Why

Remember the fabulous 1970s?  The decade of Watergate, recession, gas lines, defeat in Vietnam, unemployment, inflation, and a failed Iranian hostage rescue?  Add to that the advent of “whole language” theory in education.  Whoever came up with…