# Abbey Clint A Catholic wife and mom of five. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Posture of Fealty: Why Kneeling is the Preferred Roman Catholic Custom for Holy Communion](https://abbeyclint.substack.com/p/the-posture-of-fealty-why-kneeling) _2026-06-24 · Abbey Clint_ The modern world often views kneeling as a sign of forced humiliation or archaic subjugation. ## [Operation Survival: the SSPX Crisis Matters to Every Traditionalist](https://abbeyclint.substack.com/p/operation-survival-the-sspx-crisis) _2026-06-01 · Abbey Clint_ As traditional Catholics, we are no strangers to navigating turbulent waters. ## [What were the problems with the Church that the Vatican II reformers were so eager to fix?](https://abbeyclint.substack.com/p/what-were-the-problems-with-the-church) _2026-05-30 · Abbey Clint_ (Image courtesy of Latin Mass Photographer) ## [Built for the Long Haul: The SSPX Selects Four Seasoned Priests for Episcopal Consecration](https://abbeyclint.substack.com/p/built-for-the-long-haul-the-sspx) _2026-05-26 · Abbey Clint_ The official announcement from the General House of the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) detailing the four priests chosen for the July 1, 2026, episcopal consecrations at Écône marks a monumental moment for traditional Catholicism. ## [The Long Game of Tradition: Why a "Deal" with Rome is Generations Away](https://abbeyclint.substack.com/p/the-long-game-of-tradition-why-a) _2026-05-25 · Abbey Clint_ As traditional Catholics look toward the future, the question of "reconciliation" between the Society of St. ## [The Long Game for Tradition: Navigating the Impending Consecrations](https://abbeyclint.substack.com/p/the-long-game-for-tradition-navigating) _2026-05-25 · Abbey Clint_ As traditional Catholics, we are no strangers to navigating turbulent waters. ## [Is the Second Vatican Council infallible?](https://abbeyclint.substack.com/p/is-the-second-vatican-council-infallible) _2026-05-25 · Abbey Clint_ The theological dispute surrounding the authority of the Second Vatican Council and the stance of traditionalist groups like the Society of Saint Pius X, or SSPX, represents one of the most profound ecclesiological crises in modern church history. ## [Sustaining Tradition: Why the SSPX Requires Traditional Bishops](https://abbeyclint.substack.com/p/sustaining-tradition-why-the-sspx) _2026-04-13 · Abbey Clint_ For those familiar with the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), the organization is identified by its commitment to the Traditional Latin Mass and pre-conciliar Catholic doctrine. ## [No Christian Should Revel in the thought of Schism](https://abbeyclint.substack.com/p/no-christian-should-revel-in-the) _2026-02-07 · Abbey Clint_ Listen, no one who truly loves Jesus Christ should be clamoring for the SSPX to be excommunicated or projecting their own assumptions into the motives of the SSPX. ## [The Virtue of Submission and the Spiritual Abuse of Weaponized Obedience](https://abbeyclint.substack.com/p/the-virtue-of-submission-and-the) _2026-02-06 · Abbey Clint_ The SSPX does submit to Rome; anyone with eyes can see that. ## [Open directory of blogs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/xtnwF3ZhF664) _2026-02-06 · **Sponsored**_ Drop URLs or OPML — get per-blog pages plus machine-readable JSON, OPML, text ## [Christendom Needs Rebuilding: Egalitarianism is a Failed Experiment](https://abbeyclint.substack.com/p/christendom-needs-rebuilding-egalitarianism) _2026-02-05 · Abbey Clint_ For all their faults, at least the Christian Kings of Europe weren’t sacrificing babies to Baal and eating their flesh. ## [The Epstein File Drop: How to Move Forward](https://abbeyclint.substack.com/p/the-epstein-file-drop-how-to-move) _2026-02-04 · Abbey Clint_ The Epstein File drop is currently having a serious spiritual effect on the online public conversation. ## [Against the Antiquarians: Recovering the True Religious Nature of the Early Church](https://abbeyclint.substack.com/p/against-the-antiquarians-recovering) _2026-02-03 · Abbey Clint_ The modern landscape of Church history is often dominated by scholars who approach the early centuries of the Faith with a profound modern bias against the very concept of religion, a bias that neither the Apostles nor Christ Himself shared. ## [The Stones Cry Out: the Time for Confessing the Faith has Arrived](https://abbeyclint.substack.com/p/the-stones-cry-out-why-the-new-religion) _2026-02-03 · Abbey Clint_ The time for standing by and watching history be made by the few is quickly coming to a close. ## [True Obedience: Why Canon Law and Bellarmine Vindicate the SSPX](https://abbeyclint.substack.com/p/true-obedience-why-canon-law-and) _2026-02-02 · Abbey Clint_ In light of the SSPX’s announcement that they will be consecrating new bishops soon, let’s review what the Church actually teaches about Obedience to the Pope by relying on the authority on the subject, Bellarmine. ## [Why the Excommunications of 1988 Backfired](https://abbeyclint.substack.com/p/why-the-excommunications-of-1988) _2026-02-02 · Abbey Clint_ In 1988, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre was 82 years old. ## [Standing by Tradition Under the Threat of Excommunication](https://abbeyclint.substack.com/p/standing-by-tradition-under-the-threat) _2026-02-02 · Abbey Clint_ The announcement that the Society of St. ## [How to Have a Biblically Accurate Agape Meal](https://abbeyclint.substack.com/p/how-to-have-a-biblically-accurate) _2026-02-01 · Abbey Clint_ The idea that the Agape meal was a central liturgical element of the Mass is a mistake that only a secular or Modernist scholar could make. ## [Restore the Mystagogy of the Mass by Having a Sense of Wonder](https://abbeyclint.substack.com/p/restore-the-mystagogy-of-the-mass) _2026-02-01 · Abbey Clint_ To occupy the chair of a bishop or of the Pope is to risk becoming like Oz, the man behind the curtain, pulling the levers of a machine that the faithful perceive as a Sacred Mystery. ## [Persona-led AI publishing (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/AjphM2YohRrh) _2026-02-01 · **Sponsored**_ Generate drafts, schedule subdomain publishing, and keep human review where needed. ## [The Eucharist & the Agape Were Never Ritually Coupled](https://abbeyclint.substack.com/p/the-eucharist-and-the-agape-were) _2026-02-01 · Abbey Clint_ The Apostles clearly instituted an altar and a priesthood that directly mirrored the Temple structure of the Hebrew tradition, establishing a continuity of sacrifice that Modernists seek to obscure.