Editor’s note: We share the following exchange to show the widening rift between two liturgical camps in the Catholic Church, what exactly that rift entails, and what might be done to fix it. Our goal is to shed light on …
A Powerful Taste of Orthodoxy
We passed by my aunt’s small mountain parish on the way home from RCIA one icy mid-winter night, the “Tolerance” bumper-sticker on her black minivan covered in slush from the snowy Utah roads. It was the parish I was most …
The Splendor of the Corpus Christi Procession in Spain
Spain is blessed with a deep Catholic soul. Yes, despite the gradual apostasy of Western civilization. Yes, even despite the unhappy post–Vatican II “reforms.” And yes, despite even the ever accelerating and ever deepening quagmire in which the Church finds …
Why I Believe that Hell Is the Default
Again and again as of late, we see Catholic bishops and the pope making statements that seem to call into question the basic attributes of Hell, particularly the insistence of the Church that Hell is a place of eternal punishment …
Explosive Dossier: Cardinal Cupich Under Investigation for Withholding Bernardin Documents
Editor’s note: the following article from Marco Tosatti originally appeared today in Italian at La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana, and has been translated for us by Giuseppe Pellegrino. It summarizes the story released earlier this week by Church Militant about documents …
Scripture & Tradition: External Solemnity of Corpus Christi
(Note: In regions outside the USA, this Sunday is celebrated as the Second Sunday after Pentecost.) Epistle: 1 Corinthians 11:23-29 Gospel: John 6:56-59 O God, Who in this wonderful sacrament has left us a memorial of Thy passion: grant us, …
Paprocki vs. Cupich on Communion for Pro-Abortion Politicians: Who’s Right?
On June 5, in reaction to radical new pro-abortion laws passed in the state of Illinois, Bishop Thomas Paprocki of the Diocese of Springfield issued a decree “declaring that Illinois legislative leaders who promoted and voted for the act … …
The Amazon Synod’s Long Game Is More Radical Than You Think
It’s 2029, and, by necessity, you’re attending a “group-conducted” Mass celebrated by Jerry the bus driver, Charles the bank manager, and Josh the carpenter. You’re in the Church dreamed up by the Amazon synod’s radical muse, Bishop Fritz Lobinger. After …
Letter of a Father to His Son on Prayer and the Christian Life
The following letter was written some years ago by a father to his teenage son, who had asked him for advice about how to pray and how to be a better Christian. When OnePeterFive was given a copy of it, …
The Disastrous State of Things
Looking out across the Catholic landscape, things are pretty grim. We are losing this war. I talked to someone yesterday who is close to one of the American seminary abuse scandals and helped bring it to light. “It can’t hold …
Desecrating the Legacy of the American Martyr St. Jean de Brébeuf
“On March 16,” writes a modern-day Jesuit of his forebear in faith, the missionary martyr St. Jean de Brébeuf, “the Iroquois attacked the village and took the Hurons, who were mainly Christians, along with Jean and another Jesuit, Gabriel Lalement, prisoner. …
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