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We don't use cookies; we don't store any of your data; we do not publish advertising. THE TRADITIONAL ROMAN CATHOLIC NETWORK "The Independent Voice of Traditional Roman Catholicism since September 29, 1994" And Virtual Encyclopædia of Traditional Catholicism With Current Church News and Analysis Home of the OFFICIAL TRADITIONAL CATHOLIC DIRECTORY With More Readers than Any Other Fully Traditional Roman Catholic Site* One Terabyte of Traditional Roman Catholic Information   Subscribe to the Free TRADITIO RSS Feed Enter "http://www.traditio.com/rssfeed.xml" into your Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, or Other Aggregator TRADITIO Network's Web Site Map - The TRADITIO Fathers at Rome and Worldwide DAILY COMMENTARIES FROM THE TRADITIO FATHERS (HARD-HITTING COMMENTARIES ON RECENT CHURCH NEWS AND READERS' QUESTIONS FROM AN INDEPENDENT TRADITIONAL CATHOLIC PERSPECTIVE) OFFICIAL TRADITIONAL CATHOLIC DIRECTORY Listing All Traditional Latin Masses and Traditional Resources for North America (Provided by the National Registry of Traditional Latin Masses) LIBRARY OF FILES - FAQS AND TRADITIONAL APOLOGETICS (ANSWERS YOUR MOST COMMON QUESTIONS) TRADITIONAL LITURGICAL CALENDAR Ask the Fathers Booksales Confraternity of St. Michael Fr. Denis Fahey Archive (provided by the Fr. Denis Fahey Project) Gregorian Chant (provided by the St. John Schola for Gregorian Chant) Holy Cards, California Missions & Stations of the Cross Novus Ordo Service Photo Gallery Papal Photo Gallery Prayers for the Living and Deceased, including a Necrology of Independent Traditional Catholic Priests Special Features (Articles, Reviews, Sermons, Other) Traditional Catholic Priests Wanted and Available Traditional Latin Mass, Divine Office & Sacraments

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• Official Traditional Catholic Directory Updated - 10/01/24

  The TRADITIO Network has been informed by the National Registry of Traditional Latin Masses that the new September 2024 Monthly Revised Edition of the 29th Annual Edition (2024) of the Official Traditional Catholic Directory, Listing All Traditional Latin Masses and Traditional Resources for North America has been published. The Directory is free as of 2024, but if you wish to support the continued publication of the Directory, you may mail donations by cash, check, or money order to the Confraternity of St. Michael, 21128 Baker Road, Castro Valley, CA 94546, USA. For further information, click on the Official Traditional Catholic Directory department, provided to the TRADITIO Network by the National Registry of Traditional Latin Masses. Site representatives, be sure to check your traditional site's listing for correctness.

• The TRADITIO Network Celebrates Its 30th Anniversary - 09/29/24

  On September 29, 2024, the TRADITIO Traditional Roman Catholic Network celebrates its 30th anniversary. TRADITIO was the first traditional Roman Catholic site to appear on the internet and was founded on the Feastday of the Dedication of St. Michael the Archangel, September 29, 1994. We were here even before Newvatican was, even before Amazon.com was!
  We thank the Lord for our more than 34,000,000 readers over these past 30 years and for our hundreds of dedicated correspondents from all over the world, who keep us current on everything going on in the bowels of Newvatican, in the inner sancta of various traditional organizations, and at Traditional Latin Mass sites around the world. TRADITIO was determined by an Alexis-Amazon statistical survey to be the most read fully-traditional Roman Catholic web site on the internet.
  In their Daily Commentaries, the TRADITIO Fathers do not just copy news reports or the uninformed notions of johnny-come-lately "bloggers" in secular and religious publications, who in fact have very little background or understanding of the Traditional Catholic Movement. Nor is the TRADITIO Network enslaved to any particular organization's viewpoint. Instead, the TRADITIO Network provides the hard-hitting, independent analysis and perspective of over half a century of Roman Catholic experience, even from before Vatican II.
  The TRADITIO Network is avidly read within the highest bowels of at Newrome and Menzingen (Neo-SSPX). In addition to the Daily Commentaries from the TRADITIO Fathers, lively commentary on Church news from the traditional perspective, TRADITIO's other fifteen departments provide over a terabyte of resources and materials for its readers to study and learn about the traditional Roman Catholic Faith.
  We are particularly appreciative of the many thousands of messages that we have received from Newchurchers of the New Order, including former "1962 Mess" Modernists in Newchurch, who say that they have been converted to the fully-traditional Roman Catholic Faith because of TRADITIO's uncompromising, independent commentaries and materials. The TRADITIO Network is one of many means through which Our Lord appears be working out the Traditional Catholic Restoration of the 21st century.

• Necrology of Traditional Catholic Priests Updated - 09/18/24

  The Necrology of Traditional Catholic Priests has been updated and now contains 80 Traditional Catholic priests deceased. (We do not include pseudo-traditional clergy, such as that of the Neo-SSPX of 1991+ and of the Newchurch of the New Order). For further information, click on the Prayers for the Living and Deceased (including a Necrology of Traditional Catholic Priests) department.

• Traditional Latin Mass, Divine Office & Sacraments Updated - 09/11/24

  The "Traditional Latin Mass, Divine Office & Sacraments" department has been thoroughly reorganized. A new section has been added by popular request, "The Great 1962 'New Latin Mess' Hoax," to explain why Newchurch's corrupted "New Latin Mess" of 1962," aka "Extraordinary Mess," aka "Indult" Mess, aka "Summorum Pontificum" Mess, which is most certainly NOT the Traditional Latin Mass, is, in practice, invalid and effects no Sacrament for Holy Communion. For further information, click on the Traditional Latin Mass, Divine Office & Sacraments department in the TRADITIO Library of Files (FAQs and Traditional Apologetics).

• Read Today's Daily Commentaries from the TRADITIO Fathers

  Where every day the TRADITIO Fathers provide hard-hitting commentaries on Church news and readers' questions from an independent Traditional Catholic perspective. The Fathers' unique, provocative, often bitingly satirical commentary (after the Roman satirist Juvenal, St. Thomas More and other Saints of the Church) is based upon over half a century's personal observation of the Church, both pre- and post-Vatican II.

• View the CURRENT MONTHLY REVISED EDITION of the Official Traditional Catholic Directory, Listing All Traditional Latin Masses and Traditional Resources for North America
  Provided to the TRADITIO Network by the National Registry of Traditional Latin Masses

  This more than 225-page E-book, issued in paperback since 1994 and as an eBook since 2006 in the universal and free Adobe Acrobat PDF format, includes the only complete list, by sponsoring organization, of the approximately 800 Traditional Catholic Latin Masses in the pre-Vatican II Roman Rite, regularly and publicly celebrated in North America, as well as contacts for Mass sites outside North America. It also includes a list of traditional Catholic periodicals, suppliers, organizations, seminaries, religious orders, lay societies, retreats, schooling, and a necrology of traditional Catholic priests. Site representatives, be sure to check your traditional site's listing monthly for correctness. For further information, click on the Official Traditional Catholic Directory department, provided to the TRADITIO Network by the National Registry of Traditional Latin Masses.

• Pray Today's Traditional Divine Office

  The most important prayer that the Church offers to Almighty God after the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, in the fully traditional Catholic rite (1950).

• See Today's Traditional Liturgical Calendar

  Where the Saint, rank, and color of the day are listed, together with any fast and abstinence applicable in the fully traditional Catholic rite (1950).

• Listen to Gregorian Chant Provided to the TRADITIO Network by the St. John Schola for Gregorian Chant

  The TRADITIO Network recommends the Gregorian chant recordings of the St. John Schola, which is recording a series in the universal MP3 format, consisting of live recordings of the type of chant pieces that may be used at traditional churches and chapels. The series makes no pretense to being professional, but to what is achievable, with a little work, by the average small lay choir and to serve as a practical guide for the wider use of Gregorian chant in the traditional Roman Catholic liturgy. For ordering information on the series, click on St. John Schola: A Traditional Chapel Sings Gregorian Chant.


Volume I: Christmas Matins of the Divine Office-An Abridgement (December 2006)
Volume II: First Mass of Christmas (December 2006)
Volume III: Fourth Sunday after Epiphany (January 2007)
Volume IV: Pentecost (May 2007)
Volumes I-IV: Box Collection (May 2007)
Volume V: 14th Sunday after Pentecost (September 2007)
Volume VI: 4th Sunday after Easter (February 2008)
Volume VII: Basilica of Sts. Peter & Paul (January 2009)
Volume VIII: Cantus Populares-Popular Chants (December 2009)
Volumes V-VIII: Box Collection (December 2009)
Volume IX: Holy Week and Easter (February 2011)
Volume X: Feast of the Precious Blood (November 2012)



In addition to its series, the St. John Schola has provided to the TRADITIO Network chant clips with supporting music sheets and booklets, which can be downloaded free of charge. For further information, click on the TRADITIO Network's Gregorian Chant department.

• Review the Booksales

  Where the TRADITIO Network continuously offers for sale traditional Catholic books and compact discs that are typically hard to find. Advance notice of this sale is sent to those on our booksale E-mail list. If you would like advance notification of booksale announcements, simply E-mail your name and E-mail address to TRADITIO.

• Make a Donation to the TRADITIO Network's Apostolate

  If you wish to support the TRADITIO Network's Apostolate, you may mail donations by cash, check, or international money order to the Confraternity of St. Michael, 21128 Baker Road, Castro Valley, CA 94546, USA. Please provide your E-mail address for an acknowledgment. Contributors become Benefactors of the Confraternity and share in the fruits of the fully-Traditional Latin Masses offered.

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