Dr. Peter Kwasniewski is a graduate of Thomas Aquinas College and The Catholic University of America who taught at the International Theological Institute in Austria, the Franciscan University of Steubenville’s Austria Program, and Wyoming Catholic College, which he helped establish in 2006. Today he is a full-time writer and speaker on traditional Catholicism whose work appears online at, among others, OnePeterFive, New Liturgical Movement, LifeSiteNews, The Remnant, and Catholic Family News. He has published eleven books, including Reclaiming Our Roman Catholic Birthright: The Genius and Timeliness of the Traditional Latin Mass (Angelico, 2020) and The Holy Bread of Eternal Life: Restoring Eucharistic Reverence in an Age of Impiety (Sophia, 2020). Visit his website at www.peterkwasniewski.com.
Author: Peter Kwasniewski
Helping Children Enter into the Traditional Latin Mass – Part 1
Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series on the topic of introducing children to the traditional Latin Mass and making it fruitful for them. The second part is available here. NB: This article, along with its companion …
Book Review: Drinking with Your Patron Saints
Drinking with Your Patron Saints: The Sinner’s Guide to Honoring Namesakes and Protectors Dr. Michael P. Foley Regnery History, 2020 256 Pages $12.99 Kindle; $15.29 Hardcover Dr. Michael P. Foley is a man on a mission. Or rather, a man …
Extra Ecclesiam, Nulla Salus: How Is the Church Necessary for Salvation?
What does it mean for someone to “know that the Church is necessary for salvation”? The documents of the Church always say: If someone knows this but does not act upon it, he cannot be saved. Are there really such …
Good Stewards of God’s Gifts: A Musical Examination of Conscience
These days, we are often told that we need to examine our consciences about our relationship to the natural world. Are we being good stewards? Are we polluting or contaminating the soil or the water? Are we practicing good agriculture …
The State of the Church and the State of Our Souls
This article was first published at OnePeterFive on March 31, 2015, under the pen name Benedict Constable. It is here republished under the name of its author. Catholics striving to be loyal to “the faith once delivered to the saints” (Jude …
The Backhanded Compliment: Fr. Longenecker on Traditionalists
In his latest column, “Bishop Barron Takes on the Rad Trads,” Fr. Dwight Longenecker manages to insult nearly all traditionalists (“they’re not all nut jobs”: gee, thanks!), while at the same time, to his credit, says something important that probably …
What Message Do We Need on St. Martha’s Feast?
In the traditional Latin Mass, the Gospel for today’s feast of St. Martha is always Luke 10:38–42: Now it came to pass as they went, that he entered into a certain town: and a certain woman named Martha, received him …
Jerome Emiliani: On the Saints of Mercy and Their Masses
The traditional Roman liturgical calendar at this time in July presents us with a “triduum” of saints of mercy: St. Camillus de Lellis (July 18), St. Vincent de Paul (July 19), and St. Jerome Emiliani (July 20). Always ahead of …
Climbing the Ladder of Creation with St. Bonaventure, the Seraphic Doctor
Most Catholics who have a decent acquaintance with theology will be familiar with the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) — at least, with questions from his Summa theologiae. Apart from Franciscans who are devoted to their own tradition, however, …
The Conversation with the Former Parishioner
The Conversation with the Former Parishioner Even with all the good will in the world, Catholics who have decided to quit their Novus Ordo parish in order to attend the Latin Mass elsewhere often dread those meetings with parishioners they …
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