Dear OnePeterFive Confraternity members:
Thank you. I’m so deeply grateful for you all who joined the Confraternity and chipped in something to help cover our costs. I am so grateful for all you, brothers and sisters in Christ, worldwide, for keeping OnePeterFive afloat and free for all.
It’s no secret we’ve moved in a new direction as an organisation. Mr Eric Sammons, who is a member of our editorial board (and also the Executive director of Crisis Publications, which owns OnePeterFive), summed it up like this:
What’s the point of continually harping on that [Vatican drama], other than to spike your audience’s dopamine levels and your own page views?
That’s ultimately why Tim has taken 1P5 in a different direction. Instead of focusing on internal Church politics—we all know there’s something rotten in Rome—1P5 is instead focused on helping tradition-friendly Catholics to live lives of holiness and to rebuild Christendom—to truly “rebuild Catholic culture” and “restore Catholic tradition.” Just complaining about the state of the Church isn’t going to do that, so 1P5 is now much more about giving concrete help for this harder work.
I responded to these words by affirming the following:
OnePeterFive will prioritise the defence of Tradition right here, right now, in YOUR LOCAL COMMUNITY.
Vatican drama will continue to be discussed and analysed, but we will not obsess about it.
It’s also no secret that I have struggled with this job as editor of OnePeterFive, experiencing a great deal subtleties from the fallen angels (“My Struggle as Editor of OnePeterFive”). And recently this job has been a great cross for me – a joyful cross, but a heavy cross. And so I didn’t know how this fundraiser would go – would everyone abandon OnePeterFive?
Thanks be to God – for you, brothers and sisters in Confraternity. I am so very grateful for your support.
We are currently working with our editorial board to formulate a revised editorial stance, but the priorities are the same. Yes, we will still cover Vatican drama, expose the Neo-Modernists, and defend the traditionalist movement from ignorant and malicious attacks from fellow Catholics. But we would like to follow the wisdom of Pope St. Pius X in this regard:
But in order that the desired fruit may be derived from this apostolate and this zeal for teaching, and that Christ may be formed in all, be it remembered, Venerable Brethren, that no means is more efficacious than charity. “For the Lord is not in the earthquake” (III Kings xix., II) – it is vain to hope to attract souls to God by a bitter zeal. On the contrary, harm is done more often than good by taunting men harshly with their faults, and reproving their vices with asperity. True the Apostle exhorted Timothy: “Accuse, beseech, rebuke,” but he took care to add: “with all patience” (II. Tim.iv., 2). Jesus has certainly left us examples of this. “Come to me,” we find Him saying, “come to me all ye that labor and are burdened and I will refresh you” (Matth. xi., 28). And by those that labor and are burdened he meant only those who are slaves of sin and error. What gentleness was that shown by the Divine Master! What tenderness, what compassion towards all kinds of misery! Isaias has marvelously described His heart in the words: “I will set my spirit upon him; he shall not contend, nor cry out; the bruised reed he will not break, he will not extinguish the smoking flax” (Is. xlii., I, s.). This charity, “patient and kind” (I. Cor. xiii., 4.), will extend itself also to those who are hostile to us and persecute us. “We are reviled,” thus did St. Paul protest, “and we bless; we are persecuted and we suffer it; we are blasphemed and we entreat” (I. Cor., iv., 12, s.).[1]
In short, according to “the most traditionalist Pope ever” – who is also an incorrupt saint – “bitter zeal” is utterly anti-Tradition. On the contrary, charity is the True Tradition. This is why we start our defence of Tradition by saying that Tradition is a means to an end. Also, there in fact is a tradition more important than the Latin Mass.
Lamentably, the modern Technocracy is now threatening to swallow our traditionlist movement, because it creates a psychological idolatry of bitter zeal. This is the work of the fallen angels who hate the traditionalist movement (“The Darkness Takes Me Alive”).
When I looked back our editorial statements from 2021 (the original editorial stance and the editorial board), the addition of His Imperial and Royal Highness Archduke Eduard von Habsburg is at the heart of what we’ve been about since the beginning of my editorialship. I just want to move the organisation to increase our focus on the priorities we had already attempted to prioritise (rebuilding Christendom right now according to the Two Swords Dogma Non Definitum), and warn traditionalists to avoid the technocracy’s trap of “bitter zeal” about clerical issues that are beyond our competence or power to adjudicate. (We will still publish about clerical questions, but within the limits of the lay nobility).
So once again, thank you to our Confraternity for your support in making this organisation viable and free for all. I am so grateful and I’m excited to continue to work and do my best to serve the traditional movement with OnePeterFive, by your prayers. Please invoke our patrons for our work:
Theotokos of Fatima, “In Thee, Unity”
Blessed Emperor Karl, model of the lay nobility in modern times
St. Maximilian Kolbe, model priest of modern times – chaplain of the Militia Immaculata
Sr. Wilhelmina, model of all laity in modern times
T. S. Flanders
Editor
Dedication of the Basilica of the Saviour, the Mother and Head of all the churches of the City and the world
[1] Pope St. Pius X, E Supremi: On the Restoratin of all Things in Christ (1903), 13.