Roger Buck

Author of Cor Jesu Sacratissimum and The Gentle Traditionalist. See my 𝘼𝙪𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙧 𝙋𝙖𝙜𝙚 here:

[Roger Buck @CorJesu]

Despite its hastiness, feeling somehow strangely, deeply good about this one. My most significant post in sometime, I think, on #ValentinTomberg. To see it, click the link, not the pic.

https://t.co/6UduhZesNj

[Roger Buck @CorJesu]

Despite its hastiness, feeling somehow strangely, deeply good about this one. My most significant post in sometime, I think, on #ValentinTomberg. To see it, click the link, not the pic.

https://t.co/6UduhZesNj

[Roger Buck @CorJesu]

Hope.

[Michael Kelly ن @MichaelPTKelly]

When I was a child, Eucharistic Corpus Christi processions were seen as a ‘thing of the past’. It’s great to see them being revived in so many Irish parishes, and the enthusiasm from so many young Catholics.

[Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah]

I do get tired of people telling me you couldn’t get around by rail, before the car vandals wrecked our system .This is the railway map#of England in 1922

[Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah]

Railways of Ireland, 1922

[Roger Buck @CorJesu]

@JaneCampbell15 Subscribed! And yes your voice has a lovely clarity . . .

[Peter Kwasniewski @DrKwasniewski]

My son Julian and his wife Emily run a little Etsy shop called ThreadWoodGifts, which sells handmade goods, items based on original artwork, and reproductions of vintage art (a few are shown below; for the full selection, visit the link). I encourage you to check it out and, if you find anything you like, consider giving them a helping hand. Some neat gift ideas there.

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[Roger Buck @CorJesu]

New unusually personal video on Suffering, Prayer, Darkness and the Light of Christ. Despite flaws, I'm also unusually happy with it. As though I'm finally nailing it—get things right! There's also a lot on #ValentinTomberg here. Click link, not pic to see https://t.co/PoauMOV7Az

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.

[Joseph Shaw @LMSChairman]

Some thoughts on the supression (on Monday) of the Marian Franciscans @marianfriars (link in reply).

[Roger Buck @CorJesu]

Urgently needed wisdom here. Moreover, Pope-bashing, while understandable under the last pontificate, should never become the norm. It is *far* from traditional! But @holysmoke, may I beg you to use paragraph breaks in fine posts like this? Much easier on tired, old eyes!

[Roger Buck @CorJesu]

Urgently needed wisdom here. Moreover, Pope-bashing, while understandable under the last pontificate, should never become the norm. It is *far* from traditional! But @holysmoke, may I beg you to use paragraph breaks in fine posts like this? Much easier on tired, old eyes!

[Damian Thompson @holysmoke]

Does anyone else feel that we could ease off on the Catholic civil war for a bit? Leo is not ideal for traditionalists but he’s not pushing the same anarchic ideas – or relying on the same opportunistic ideologues – as Francis. Look at how cross Massimo Faggioli is at this pope’s more conventional understanding of synodality. We’re supposed to be upset that Leo blessed a block of ice or extended full ecumenical courtesy to Sarah Mullally – but he hasn’t moved an inch towards recognising Anglican orders (something Francis flirted with), he’s definitely not interested in women deacons, he’s not enforcing TC with any enthusiasm, and his Christ-centric preaching is far removed from the alarming indifferentism of Francis’s crazier outbursts. No sinister weirdos have been parachuted into major sees even if, like most popes, Leo is in no hurry to reshuffle his cabinet. As for the SSPX, maybe he should have met them but you have to understand how fed up the Vatican has been with the endless fruitless negotiations over the years and the threat to ordain illicit bishops, now being carried out, just strikes them as blackmail. Outside social media, mainstream trads (including their cardinal allies) feel insulted by the SSPX and especially the aggressive hints that NO Masses may be invalid. What about the Germans, say commentators. Well, Leo seems less likely to indulge them than Francis, and it’s significant that they’ve had to postpone or call off their grandiose plan for a Synodal assembly or whatever they call it. As for the specific subject of gay blessings, Leo appears to have satisfied the Copts that FS is no longer to be taken seriously. Yes, loony things still happen in Europe but that’s been going on for 50 years. So the melodramatic statements of ultra-trads now seem less appropriate than they might have been under Francis, whose chaotic reign is passing into history – not fast enough, but the direction of travel is not one that the Synodal faction, so influential five years ago, would have chosen. And to cap it all we’ve just had a thoughtful encyclical which impressed most Catholic observers. OK. End of sermon. I’m anticipating the scorn from the usual suspects but it won’t keep me awake tonight.

[Roger Buck @CorJesu]

New unusually personal video on Suffering, Prayer, Darkness and the Light of Christ. Despite flaws, I'm also unusually happy with it. As though I'm finally nailing it—get things right! There's also a lot on #ValentinTomberg here. Click link, not pic to see https://t.co/PoauMOV7Az

[Roger Buck @CorJesu]

@RorateCaeli Hearing your pleading and pleading for you to Her and to God.

[Trad West @trad_west_]

Armenia is building what will be the largest statue of Jesus Christ in the world 🇦🇲✝️

[Roger Buck @CorJesu]

Angels, Demons, Christ—Or Madness? (An Extraordinary Experience) https://t.co/c0bC1swXZP via @YouTube

[Roger Buck @CorJesu]

I love this passionate, brilliant soul from whom I learn so very, very much. A far more subtle soul than many see. Long years I argued with him. But I kept losing the arguments. Thank God. No words can really capture how deep my love goes here. No hyperbole. That is all, for now.

[G. K. Chesterton @GKCdaily]

We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.

[Roger Buck @CorJesu]

1/ Had #HilaireBelloc lived to see de Charles de Gaulle's 5th Republic, he would surely have rejoiced. For de Gaulle at least attempted to live and incarnate what both men hoped for France, after earlier republics they both detested. #Gaullism #Gaullisme #Distributism

[Roger Buck @CorJesu]

@ClarkeMicah Stunned+grateful to have a response @ClarkeMicah! Your books+sanity mean more to me than I can say. Light in the dark. Aware how you differ greatly from HB, also Waugh—but also ***haunted*** by parallels w/them in your unflinching, cogent exposé of Socialist-Capitalist modernity.