A Tale of Two Slaps

Whether it is the Sede Gestatoria or the Popemobile, our Papal ceremonies have always included provision for a very basic fact for popular public figures: people like to touch and reach out for them. This of course carries with it…

He is Risen, Alleluia!

A Blessed and Happy Easter to all readers of Scutum et Lorica. Like many Priests before and during Lent, I have been very occupied, but by no means have I stopped writing, and thinking. Most of my best thoughts come…

Our Liturgical Amnesia

I have been very quiet lately, especially since the promulgation of Traditionis Custodes, both out of sorrow and out of meditation, as we have seen across the Catholic world the return of what Cardinal Newman famously called the “spirit of…