One of the big questions that has been routinely asked me by non-Catholic friends and family is, why become Catholic, especially now? It would seem that my conversion comes as a predicament due to its timing, given all the scandals. …
Summorum Pontificum in Saint Petersburg, Russia
By Oleg-Michael Martynov Russia’s second largest city of Saint Petersburg is now also the second place in the country to have a regularly scheduled traditional Latin Mass under the provisions of Summorum Pontificum. The Mass in Saint Petersburg joins the one …
Formed by Beauty: Catholic Artists Plan the Way Forward for Our Culture
An unseasonably warm and moodily rainy November 4 in Chicago saw artists and patrons from around the nation gathering for the Second Annual Catholic Art Guild Conference and Gala. Titled “Formed by Beauty,” this event was an opportunity for artists, …
What Will It Look Like if We Win?
Editor’s note: The following is an expression of hope, not certainty. Any resemblance to real people, places, or years is entirely coincidental. Remarks by Father Geoffrey Schultz after the Rite of Dedication to the Church of St. Bonaventure, in the …
What Japan Teaches about the Invincibility of the Faith
Whatever qualifies as a “Christian country” these days, Japan would not likely be seen as one in anyone’s mind. Only 1% of the Japanese population, split evenly between Catholics and Protestants along with small pockets of Eastern Orthodoxy, claim to …
Finding the Catholic Village in the Big City
A friend recently invited me to hear Dr. Jordan Peterson speak when he came to Sacramento on a book tour. He was a mixed bag of ideas, as expected, but thoughtful and provocative and worth listening to. One of the …
Catholic at Last: From Eastern Orthodox to the One True Faith
When I was invited to write this piece for OnePeterFive, Steve Skojec wanted to know why I was becoming Catholic now. After all, I was obviously a conservative. An outspoken counter-jihad activist. A vehement defender of the existence of only …
The Cult of Change and Christian Changelessness
The modern age glamorizes constant change. It romanticizes variety, development, progress, newness. It exalts evolution as a paradigm of knowledge and of all reality. Those who hold tightly to perennial wisdom and permanent truths, traditional morals, inherited culture, artistic monuments, …
Churchspotting: St. Lawrence, Harrisburg PA
Over the weekend, I was out of town visiting friends in Pennsylvania, and we went to Sunday Mass at the Mater Dei Parish at St. Lawrence Chapel, located at 110 State St. in Harrisburg. This is a chapel of the Priestly Fraternity …
“My Country Needs to Know that God is So Beautiful” – FSSP Celebrates 500 Years of Mexican Catholicism
The following is a guest post by Fr. Daniel Heenan, an American priest in the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) currently serving the faithful in Mexico. By Fr. Daniel Heenan, FSSP On May 3rd, 1518, the feast of the …
