Dear OnePeterFive donors, supporters and readers, I might not need to remind you, dear reader—but still, it’s nice to think about: we are not even halfway through Easter. The Son is Risen, and the celebration has just begun. Curiously, however, we Catholics seem to prefer Lent. We love the chance for a personal reset,…
As the weeks stretch into the Easter Season, we continue to look into the Epistle reading for Sunday’s Mass in the Vetus Ordo of the Roman Rite. This week we’ve come to the 3rd Sunday after Easter. It is the 4th Sunday of Easter in the calendar of the Novus Ordo. By the way, did…
Pope Francis spoke to this bishop and said: They [the SSPX] are not schismatics.
And yet, despite all of Cristina Campo's contradictions, it would be wrong to give her the negative evaluation found in Fulvio Abbate.
To use political science jargon, it’s a soft auto-coup. It is soft because it is non-violent and partially legal, and it is an auto-coup because it is an effort by those in power to get more power.
Catholicism isn’t primarily about “the Church”—that is, the Church on earth in her structures, laws, works, affairs.
The mind had to be born in wonder if it was to be brought to wisdom, and this was only possible through experiencing God’s creation “raw.”
We have to conclude that our suffering – our suffering in a Christian, Christ-like way of suffering, will in turn be exemplary to others.
Moreover, Catholic States, impressed by the growth in political and economic power of “pragmatic,” Pietist-influenced Prussia and Britain, vigorously pursued secularizing policies as well.
Cardinals Arthur Roche and Raniero Cantalamessa indirectly acknowledged (perhaps unintentionally) what critics of Paul VI’s Novus Ordo Missae have said for over fifty years.
It is no wonder that idolatry is compared in Scripture to fornication. Desacralization too may be compared to fornication and adultery.
