A significant number of supporters of the traditional Roman Rite have always held the opinion that the rite of 1970 is a new creation and represents a break with the traditional Roman Rite. There are good arguments for this. However, until now this has never been stated authoritatively. There are no obstacles to create a…
We see now where this is going. Immediately following the release of Traditionis Custodes in July, 2021, a few bishops canceled Latin Masses in their dioceses. Many, however, are still “prayerfully considering” how best to implement the Pope’s executive order. Now the vicar general for the Diocese of Rome has given the bishops of the…
The Forgotten Francis Decrees On the twenty-second of February, 2020. The Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter. Quo magis. Cum sanctissima. Documents of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, released with the approval of the Supreme Pontiff Francis, approval that had been granted in an audience of 5 December, 2019. These spring…
Vladimir Ashkenazy and the “Agatha Christie” Petitioners What do the writers W.H. Auden, Evelyn Waugh, Jorge Borges and Francois Mauriac, have in common with the composer Benjamin Britten, the guitarist Andrés Segovia, and the philosophers Augusto Del Noce and Jacques Maritain? They all signed an international petition in 1966 begging the Holy See not to…
Dear OnePeterFive donors, supporters and readers, OnePeterFive has come into the possession of the following letter from the Vatican Prefect of the Congregation of Divine Worship, Archbishop Arthur Roche, in response to an inquiry shortly after Traditionis Custodes was promulgated. We publish the inquiry and the Vatican response below followed by commentary from our contributing…
Where I live it’s pretty easy to forget that you do not live in a small town. Given the fact that most suburbs of regional capitals of our neighbour to the South nearly double our size, it can feel like living in Nowheresville, even in the largest urban centre for thousands of miles on the…
In discussions of whether or not the pope has the authority to radically change the Church’s liturgy, the claim has been made that “if he can modify the bread from leavened to unleavened and limit reception to one species—which pertain even to the substance of the sacrament!—then of course he can do anything else.” I…
Flashback to July of this year. My wife, four kids, and I climbed up a high mountain while on vacation. We sat in a glorious subalpine meadow, overlooking a massive glacier, and debated whether or not we wanted to go back down the mountain. We had climbed the mountain for one reason: to escape. Setting…
Editor’s note: beyond theological debates, beauty can communicate to the hearts of all why we will never give up the Latin Mass. Please share these videos, subscribe to Una Voce’s channel, and bookmark their website to join the work of this apostolate, one of the founding organizations of the Trad movement. Since its beginning in 1965,…
In a recent article in the Illinois Times, Massimo Faggioli, a theology professor at Villanova University in Philadelphia, is quoted as follows, of a specific Traditional Mass location: It’s not an accident that all of these Catholics at the old Mass are white, because one of the things that happened after Vatican II was an…
To the average Penn State student, the fourth of September of 2018 was a day like any other. A Tuesday early in the semester, the weather in State College, Pennsylvania was perfect, and the buzz of a promising football season (coupled with a narrow victory the week before) permeated campus. It was around 2 o’clock…
