The acronym SSPX stands for the Society of St Pius X, the association founded by archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in 1969. For most people, this is the society that continues to insist on using the Tridentine Mass (the pre-Vatican II Mass in Latin). This is so, but not only. Like their founder, the followers of Lefebvre do not accept many of the deliberations
Donald Trump is accustomed to criticism from coast to coast - Democrats, disaffected Republicans, late-night comedians, massive protests. Yet in his second presidency, Trump's most influential American critic doesn't live in the country but at the Vatican. It's an unprecedented situation, with the first American pope directly assailing the American
When Pope Leo XIV pronounced himself a "son of St. Augustine" the night of his election, some Algerians took that to mean his ancestors hailed from the North African country where the 5th century saint lived and died. Leo's line, of course, referred to his Augustinian spirituality. But his connection to the Algerian-born St. Augustine, the towering
