Mike Lewis

One of the stranger developments surrounding the illicit Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) episcopal consecrations on July 1 was the sudden outbreak of agreement among Catholics across the spectrum that the Society had gone too far — they had committed a schis... See more

Compared with other high-demand and fundamentalist religious movements, radical Catholic traditionalism has produced remarkably few memoirs by those who have experienced it from within. The most notable include Patricia Walsh Chadwick’s 2019 Little Sister... See more

In a recent podcast, Cardinal Kurt Koch, the Vatican’s Prefect for Promoting Christian Unity, said of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), “I’m not entirely sure one can already speak of schism.” The interview was conducted on July 2, 2026, and published tha... See more

MSRP: Alpinisto 50 ($299.95); Alpinisto 25 ($199.95) Over the winter and spring of 2025-26, I had the opportunity to try out two climbing packs made by Gregory: the updated 25 and 50L versions of the Alpinisto. Spanning a few decades, two iterations of Gr... See more

The official decree from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith declaring the excommunication of the clergy of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) was published in the early morning hours today. Below is an unofficial working translation of the decree a... See more