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Interview: Vatican Expert Marco Tosatti on Fatima
Editor’s Note: Marco Tosatti, Italian journalist and Vatican expert, wrote in Italy’s La Stampa concerning Dr. Maike Hickson’s recent article on Fr. Ingo Dollinger, Cardinal Ratzinger, and the Third Secret of Fatima. Dr. Hickson then reached out to Tosatti — himself an …

Which is More Important: The Preaching, or the Mass?
Editor’s note: the following is a guest essay submitted by a reader who wishes to remain anonymous. We have agreed to publish it here in the hopes of generating a fruitful discussion. In my efforts to draw friends into my local …

Love, Mercy, Justice: Communion for the Divorced and Remarried
In every age, the Church deals with issues and pastoral situations so murky that a solution to a member’s situation may seem impossible. In the modern age, very few Catholics understand the importance of the Church’s precepts. These precepts bind …

Deaconesses: a Reasoned Approach
While I now try to keep a policy of avoiding every controversy from Rome, the hubbub on “deaconesses” is too great a temptation to resist and provides an opportunity for a solid catechizing moment, speaking as someone who has felt …

Cardinal Ratzinger: We Have Not Published the Whole Third Secret of Fatima
[UPDATE: The Vatican has responded to this story with a direct denial attributed to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI himself. You may read their statement and our response to it here.] Today, on the Feast of Pentecost, I called Fr. Ingo …

Cardinal Ratzinger: We Have Not Published the Whole Third Secret of Fatima
[UPDATE: The Vatican has responded to this story with a direct denial attributed to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI himself. You may read their statement and our response to it here.] Today, on the Feast of Pentecost, I called Fr. Ingo …

Cardinal Lehmann on Popes, Cardinal Müller, and Amoris Laetitia
Cardinal Karl Lehmann, the former head of the German Bishops’ Conference and a famous “neo-Modernist Dissenter” turns 80 years old this month, and has thus submitted his final resignation from his office as the bishop of Mainz. In the course …

Alice Von Hildebrand Sheds New Light on Fatima
Introductory commentary by Fr. Brian W. Harrison, O.S. Owing to a lack of clarity and specificity in Chapter 8 of Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation, Amoris Laetitia (AL), mutually contradictory views are circulating as to what it means for Catholics living …

On Exhortation, Müller Resists and Fernández Reveals
Ever since last Saturday night, when my translation of portions of a very important 4 May speech made by Cardinal Gerhard Müller in Oviedo, Spain, was published here at OnePeterFive, I have been expectantly and eagerly waiting for a proportionate response …

Revolution in Tiara and Cope: A History of Church Infiltration (II)
(Editor’s note: this is Part II of a three-part essay. You can read Part I here and Part III here.) Part II In search of the foot soldiers of the Alta Vendita, we arrive at our second point and the work …