“I’m sorry about Benedict.” I turned from my dog to my daughter. “Did he die?” I asked my daughter. “Yeah,” she said. “Who died?” said my six-year-old son. “Pope Benedict, the former pope.” I was taking it in. It wasn’t hitting me yet. I said to my son: “Now he goes to judgment. We pray…
As we conclude our fall fundraising campaign, I’m worried. We are still $38,000 short of our year end fundraising goal. Many of you have given, and we’re tremendously grateful. But many more have not—at least not yet. Maybe you’ve thought about it and then got busy and moved on. Maybe you thought someone else would…
We’re now two weeks into our fall fundraising campaign and we’ve raised only $18,000 – less than a third of the $60,000 we need to operate through the first half of 2023. I’m grateful to all of those who have made gifts to OnePeterFive to support our work and mission. Your support is critical to…
Last week I sent a message to you and other subscribers about our need for donations, but unfortunately very few of you responded. I am exceedingly grateful to those of you who did, but because our need is so urgent, I must write to you again. I must also stress how much we depend upon…
It’s not a coincidence that the shortening days of a coming winter coincide with the last days of the Church year. It’s here, at the dark end of the year, that we reflect on the dark end of the world. The times prior to Christ’s return will be frightening, the readings remind us, full of…
Above: the Latin rite Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Moscow, which was restored and rebuilt after the fall of Soviet Communism. Since the invasion of Ukraine by Putin in February this year, the Russian Catholic bishops have shown the courage incumbent upon successors of the Apostles. We must remember that our brethren in…
Sixty years ago this month, Papa Roncalli was carried into the Second Vatican Council after an hours-long procession and delivered the speech (“Medicine of Mercy”) which opened that council. I believe that in time, historians will later call this council the “Post-War Council.” Why? Because the Council was dominated by the post-World War II context…
In our modern epoch, we see the tactic of the Freemasons (and later the Marxists) is in writing ideological historical narratives designed to make Catholics ashamed of their history. Using textbook Communist tactics, these enemies of Christ find some real grievance somewhere in Christendom past or present, and then magnify and exaggerate this beyond all…
Above: Mass of the Ages director Cameron O’Hearn takes up the cross of Eucharistic Reparation and is invested with the crusader cross by Bishop Athanasius Schneider. All photos by Allison Girone. In the days of the eastern and northern crusades, special rituals and customs went with those who were said to “take up the…
Above: three lay fathers issue their articles of resistance to Pope Francis at the CIC Conference, MMXXII. Photo by Allison Girone. At the risk of oversimplification, I do believe that the present crisis in the Church can be boiled down to a crisis of fatherhood. First, the fathers of the Liberal revolutions (beginning with John…
Why did Our Lord become incarnate at the dawn of the Roman Empire under Caesar Augustus? Why is the Roman tongue essential to the liturgy and western civilisation? The answer to both these questions is Romanitas. At OnePeterFive, we have been blessed to work with Vincenzo Randazzo in Rome, as both correspondent to news from Rome…
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