Faith and doubt, scandal and generosity, married love and unfaithfulness, are woven into a complex and profound tale of heroic sanctity on the part both of Judith and Edmund.
Category: Catholic Voices
True Fathers Resist the Holy Father
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 …
A Novel Approach to Internet Addiction
As a society we are losing our will to live. Perhaps we do not even know how to live anymore. Rather, we abandon ourselves to an insatiable pursuit of comfort. And then, to compound our madness, we burden our youth …
Sanctifying the Airwaves: The Crusade Channel
OnePeterFive contributing editor, Kennedy Hall, doubles as a journalist with LifeSiteNews and a daily radio host on The Crusade Channel. Part of rebuilding Catholic culture involves finding a way to use the good that media technologies can offer us by …
Book Review: The Woman in the Trees: A Novel About America’s First Approved Marian Apparition
The Woman in the Trees: A novel about America’s first approved Marian apparition Theoni Bell (https://theonibell.com/) Independently Published 237 pages $6.99 Kindle; $15.99 Paperback Publisher’s Description: “Set within the expanses of the American frontier, The Woman in the Trees follows …
‘Dear Little One’: A Letter to My Unborn Child
Author’s note: Since writing “Take Me to the Pigs: Finding Hope in Dark Times” last November, I got engaged to the very same boyfriend and joyfully married him in a TLM wedding on July 27. God is good! My little …
A Brief Tale of ‘Eucharistic Inhospitality’
We hear a lot nowadays about “Eucharistic inhospitality,” a phrase generally abused, but we would do well to reflect on a previous and far more damaging exclusion from the table that has cast a long and still lengthening shadow over …
How about a Synod for the ‘Indigenous Peoples’ of Britain?
Editor’s note: What you are about to read is — or should be — an obvious fiction, imagining what the next Vatican synod on regional indigenous peoples might propose. And yet, with a passage in the Amazonian synod working document …
An Open Letter to Our Priests
Dear Fathers, I want you to know, even though I and many others are very angry right now, I was brought up to trust you. To revere you. To see you as intrinsically worthy of respect and honor. Even of …
‘To Whom Shall We Go?’: On Being 70 and Catholic
Our parish has sixty-two programs, projects, and ministries. I counted them. Have you miscarried? There’s a project for that. Do you struggle with pornography? A parish ministry can help you. Don’t have enough to eat? We have a program to …