Dr. Peter Kwasniewski is a founding faculty member at Wyoming Catholic College in Lander, Wyoming, where he also directs the Choir and Schola. two books on the liturgy — Resurgent in the Midst of Crisis and Noble Beauty, Transcendent Holiness — and a book of Sacred Choral Works, and contributes to a number of blogs and magazines.
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Man Does Not Live by Bread Alone
Far too often, people will hear fallen-away Catholics say something like this: “I stopped going to church because I just wasn’t being fed.” What do they mean by this statement? What might the metaphor of hunger and lack of nourishment …
Are We God’s “Sons and Daughters”?
When contemporary clergy preach about our relationship to the Father in Christ, they will refer to Christians, almost without exception, as “God’s sons and daughters.” The new document from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Placuit Deo, falls …
Living through the Meltdown: An Imaginary Biography
You were born in 1938. You grew up in a parish where multiple Sunday Masses were packed with Catholics. Some of your earliest memories are of the hats and veils the ladies wore as the final touch on their Sunday …
An Anti-Traditionalist Rants—and a Traditionalist Responds
I once received a humdinger of a piece of anti-fan mail from a lady in Europe who was quite incensed by the lecture at Steubenville that became chapter 1 of my book Noble Beauty, Transcendent Holiness. Recently re-reading it, I …
Sorting Out Difficulties in Liturgical Allegiance
A young adult of strong faith and an admirable family piety sent a letter to me last summer with certain questions and concerns that I believe will resonate with many other readers of OnePeterFive. I will share first the letter, …
The Kingship of Christ and the Anti-Kingdom of Modernity
Right after the Obergefell vs. Hodges decision was announced, the media quickly reported on the “conciliatory” and “moderate” language of Donald Cardinal Wuerl: “The law of the land is the law of the land,” says Archbishop of Washington Cardinal Donald …
The Reality of Hell and the Fear of God: Banished from a Church Near You
In my article “The Fifty-Year Descent to Footnote 351: Our Progressive Desensitization to the Most Holy Eucharist,” I spoke of how the liturgical reform’s many sudden and drastic changes in ritual and ceremonial have contributed to a continual erosion of …
The Fifty-Year Descent to Footnote 351: Our Progressive Desensitization to the Most Holy Eucharist
We did not wake up one fine day in 2017 to find ourselves suddenly confronted with Eucharistic sacrilege being promoted from on high. There was a long, slow process that led to this moment. It consisted in the gradual dilution …
A Dialogue Between Two Monks Concerning the Papacy
Image: Max Barascudts (1869-1927) — In the Scriptorium Br. Barsanuphius: Good morning, Brother! To my surprise, the guest house is completely ready for today’s arrivals, and we have some time before the next office. Are you free for a conversation? We …
Why Catholics Are So Bad at Evangelizing—And What Has to Change
Image: The miracles of St. Francis Xavier (see full image here), by Peter Paul Rubens Two good friends, fellow parishioners, are having coffee and donuts after High Mass one Sunday. Maximilian: I really enjoyed Father’s homily today. His explanation of the parable …
