Flashback: My 2006 Dr. White interview for the Angelus

People keep asking me for "more Dr. White" featuring the release of his latest interview.  I have answers both now and later.

Now:  for those of you who never read it, the interview I did with Dr. White in 2006 was featured in the October Angelus of that year and was also hosted exclusively online by the Cornell Society for a Good Time.  The interview has some "dated" material, but much of it is timeless, and more importantly, is classic Dr. White.

Later:  in June of this year Dr. White came to Overland Park, Kansas, to be part of a conference I hosted on Integral Catholicism.  He gave two talks: one on Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honour trilogy, one on Richard Wagner's Ring series.  Those will be released to subscribers of my streaming video site (as an aside, the $99 current subscriber rate is going up January 1st...there will be some very exclusive content posted at that point, so get in now while it's still under $100) sometime in December and will be available for streaming purchase in January or later.  Both talks are nearly 2 hours long and are for those who want deep and real analysis of these fascinating works.

Dr. White interview excerpt posted

at Durendal.

Dr. White, in this short excerpt, among other things, argues that Bishop Williamson should not continue to be muzzled.

Interviews can be bought for instant streaming download here.

Lunch with Charles Coulombe

For those in the Kansas City area, Charles Coulombe will be in town tomorrow, Saturday the 19th of November. He's here for a couple days doing some interviews with True Restoration and he'll be heading to the World War I Museum tomorrow.  If you'd like to join Charles at the Museum (and for lunch after), please email truerestoration at gmail dot com with contact information and we will give you details.  He is singularly funny, erudite, and enjoyable to meet in person.

Interview with Griff Ruby (June 2011)

I first met Griff at Ordinations this last June but we had "met" virtually before then.  He had read some of my interviews and we were both writers for The Four Marks so we saw each other's writing quite regularly.

Griff has a fascinating conversion story and apart from that, he's used years of studies as a layman to create a book that is in a way, a guide to the Traditionalist Catholic movement.  It chronicles its history and consequences.  Griff pretty selflessly has the entire book online for free here, but if you're like me and prefer an old-fashioned book in your hand, you can buy the book here. 

Griff is a gentleman, but I think you will appreciate his kind, straightforward speaking more than anything.  The vast majority of my interviews are with clerics so sometimes speaking with a fellow layman shows some of the particular difficulties we face more particularly than priests do (i.e. priests don't have to worry about where to go to Mass, because they celebrate their own, etc.)

As I've mentioned for the most recent interviews posted, your best value is to be found in the annual subscription, but should you only wish to purchase this particular interview, you can do it for $7.99 on streaming or $20.00 should you prefer the DVD.

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Durendal reviews the upcoming Dr. White interview

Dr. David Allen White's interview is already for sale on DVD at www.truerestorationpress.com and on streaming at www.truerestorationpress.com/videos.  However, the free 20-minute excerpt of the 90-minute interview doesn't premiere until later this week.  If you don't want to wait until then, you can read Mr. Nicholas Wansbutter's review of the interview at Durendal.  He will also be hosting the excerpt later this week.

Mr. Wansbutter's lead on the story is reiterating what Dr. White told me: this would be his last interview, ever.

Interview with Bishop Mark A. Pivarunas, CMRI (June 2011)

Bishop Pivarunas is the Superior General of the CMRI, one of the larger religious congregations that offers the Mass of All Time.

I had a chance to sit down with His Excellency on the day of Ordinations this year, which took place on the Feast of Sts. Peter & Paul.  In this 20-minute excerpt from a 90-minute interview, the Bishop speaks about his vocation, the early days of the CMRI, his episcopal consecration, the situation in Cullman, Alabama with Christ the King Abbey, and what it's like to exist with the

As with the Fr. Oswalt interview, this interview is available on DVD, as a one-time streaming download, or as part of your subscription package, if you are an annual subscriber.  Subscribers get access to all interviews currently in the system plus early (and free) access to any new interviews done over the next 12 months.  If you like these interviews, the subscription might be the way to go.

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New Interviews

It has been a busy summer for me personally and professionally.  While I did manage to get a lot of new content for True Restoration, there are always the logistics of getting the DVDs ready to ship and the film transferred into digital files and then cleaned up and loaded to servers for worldwide download and streaming.  This takes a lot of time.

Here are some of the interviews that will appear in the next three weeks.

Dr. David Allen White
Bp. Mark Pivarunas, CMRI
Fr. Michael Oswalt
Mr. Griff Ruby
Fr. Anthony Cekada

More details to follow...

Interview with Fr. Michael Oswalt (June 2011)

Father Michael Oswalt is the first priest I know of to be absolutely, not conditionally, ordained in the Traditional Rite by a Bishop consecrated in the Traditional Rite after he was originally ordained in the Novus Ordo by a Novus Ordo-consecrated Bishop.  While it has never been, nor will it begin to be now, the raison d'etre of this website to comment on sacramental theology, it must be widely acknowledged that the dirty little secret of most Trads is that they have massive doubts about the new sacraments (what this implies for the possibility of an erring Magisterium and the logical consequences in their minds is something we'll sidestep for now).  The SSPX has most visibly expressed this doubt not just through their numerous conditional ordinations of Novus Ordo priests, but through many thousands of conditional confirmations (for which no canonical investigation is required for you to present yourself for conditional confirmation).  What I think is fascinating about Fr. Oswalt's interview(s) (I met him in 2009, before he walked down this road) is seeing just how the "Tradversion" story that we all experienced was seen through his eyes.

Father Oswalt was ordained a priest forever by Bishop Mark Pivarunas at Mount St. Michael in June of this year.  Please enjoy the excerpt below (12 minutes of a 70 minute interview).

As a final note, Fr. Oswalt's interview is one of 5 premiering in the next 3 weeks.  Due to comments from some of the earliest subscribers to www.truerestorationpress.com/videos we have lowered our price for the annual subscription, which gives you access to all the video interviews ever done, as well as some of the beautiful ceremonies I've started to capture in High Definition.  Long-form interviews like what we do here don't exist anywhere else in the Traditional Catholic world.  Now we will be bringing you ceremonies in high-def also.  Being a subscriber is cheaper than ordering the DVDs individually, and you get instant access instead of waiting for the DVD.

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