The Novus Ordo is Rhetorical Religion
It concerns the nature of religion itself and its political meaning.


Above: the Roman theatre at Athens. In describing his conversion to Catholicism via the usus antiquior, actor Shia LaBeouf remarked “it feels like they’re not selling me a car … It feels like it’s not being done to sell me on anything.” I believe the traditional Mass is compelling because it is decidedly – one might say blessedly – not the product of what I call “religion on the model of…