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The Decline and Fall of Catholic Moral Theology
The Catholic Church has a moral teaching. Everybody knows this, and it is on account of her moral teaching that people who do not wish to believe that the Catholic Church is the true religion, and who do not wish …
Stopping the Heartbeat of the Church
Editor’s note: The following article comes to 1P5 from a Carmelite nun who fears for her order. For centuries, contemplative religious have been recognized as the “heartbeat of the Church.” Indeed, even the 2018 Vatican document “Cor Orans” calls contemplative …
Leaked Draft of Amazon Exhortation Strikes Blow Against Clerical Celibacy
According to a new report at Corrisepondenza Romana, the Catholic news agency run by the eminent Church historian & author Professor Roberto de Mattei, the post synodal apostolic exhortation on the Amazon Synod, which is expected to be promulgated very …
A Barbarian Philosopher Crosses the Tiber
Its waters are cold, and rougher than expected, even for a wild olive from Northern climes. My path toward God is that of the philosopher. It’s a difficult one, a spiritually dangerous one, and I’ve come to believe that it’s …
20 Reasons to Attend the Traditional Latin Mass in 2020
“The virtue of religion gives to God that which we owe Him, and we owe Him what He has inspired us in our tradition to give Him.” – Dr. Peter Kwasniewski Many books, articles, podcasts, YouTube videos, homilies, and lectures …
1P5 Minute #20 | Legionaries of Christ Facing New Sex Abuse Charges
It’s astonishing that the Legionaries of Christ were not dissolved when it was revealed that their founder, Marcial Maciel, was a monstrous sexual predator who had abused some 60 children and fathered six children by three different women. He is …
With Humility, Women Uplift Themselves and Sanctify Men
In the first part of this series we discussed the general raising of the dignity of woman in and through Marian devotion with the coming of the Gospel. We also began to explain the “truly regal throne” first perfected by …
The First ‘Sunday of the Word of God’: Tradition Enthroned!
At the end of last September in his apostolic letter Aperuit illis, Pope Francis declared that the third Sunday per annum in the Novus Ordo would be the “Sunday of the Word of God.” In his letter, the pope left …
Can a Catholic Have Faith without Reason?
Today, many of us would be skeptical of an arranged marriage. This is because people instinctively know they cannot love a person they do not know, and without loving such a person, they are doubtful of the idea of entering …
A Look at the ‘Inculturated’ Church in Chiapas, Mexico
You see a lot of strange words now in Catholic circles. Words that you would never before have associated with the word “Catholic,” like “shaman” and “cosmos” and “integral ecology.” All having to do with the recent Amazon Synod. You …