Today, we’d like to ask your prayers for some friends and supporters of OnePeterFive, Mike and Annie Norton, and their son Isaac. Annie writes: Friends and dear ones. I know that many are off FB today for Lent but asking for any and all prayers for our Isaac. [Yesterday] morning we heard a thud from…
Over at the recently re-activated (and re-named) blog, What’s Up With Francis-Church, my pal Hilary White returns to her years’ long theme, “Novusordoism Isn’t Catholicism,” with a post on where Mother Angelica went wrong when she declared war against the American Catholic establishment in 1993. She begins with a video clip of a famous episode of Mother Angelica Live!…
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry. – Matthew 4:2 The Scriptures are sometimes amusing in their understatement. Perhaps one of the most obvious examples of this is when St. Matthew describes how Jesus was feeling after fasting for forty days. Think about how you feel if you have to skip…
Our first podcast of 2016 is available, and today we talk about the Jubilee Year of Mercy that is now fully underway. What is Mercy? What does it mean? How should we look for it or apply it in our own lives? Listen here.
It’s our first podcast of 2016, and today we talk about the Jubilee Year of Mercy that is now fully underway. What is Mercy? What does it mean? How should we look for it or apply it in our own lives? [powerpress]
It’s the most dreaded time of year again for Americans: tax season. At the end of January, we sent out year-end statements to our donors via email if they’re claiming deductions. Printed copies are on their way out via snail mail for those who did not provide an email address. If you did not receive a…
And seeing the multitudes, he had compassion on them: because they were distressed, and lying like sheep that have no shepherd. – Mt 9:36 In an interview last month with Asia Times, Pope Francis opined at length about China. China, where Communist policies have ended the lives of roughly 100 million men, women, and children, and where a…
The latest papal video is out. Hot on the heels of last month’s paean to religious indifferentism, we get another blast of immanentism from the Vatican, which has apparently rebranded itself as a non-denominational ecology and social-justice driven NGO. Yes. The Church teaches stewardship of creation. You’ll get no dispute from me. But it also…
It’s election season in America again. And since January 22nd, 1973, U.S. conservative voters have had their political autonomy held hostage by a single court decision. Roe v. Wade, by the very gravity of the issue it decided, forever changed the American political landscape, forcing conscientious pro-life voters to focus on this issue to the virtual exclusion…
In a recent article in Homiletic & Pastoral Review, some odd questions are raised about the use of liturgical Latin: Is it possible that the Traditional Latin Mass, though beautiful sounding Latin, merely makes one feel good, but lacks the intent necessary for the words to be properly labeled as communication of love of God? Or do…
Today, Rorate Caeli published an absolutely essential interview with His Excellency, Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Astana, Kazakhstan. They have graciously given permission to other Catholic outlets to re-publish it in full, which we are doing here today. In this interview, Bishop Schneider answers questions about the crisis in the Church, the potential for schism and the quasi-heretical nature…
