Editor’s note: this and related articles have now been published in a book entitled: Disputed Questions on Papal Infallibility (Os Justi Press, 2022). Question II: On Particular Cases of Papal Teaching The previous question (part 1 and part 2) considered the extension and limits of papal infallibility in general by means of a close examination…
Above: mosaic of St. John Ogilvie returning to Scotland where he was martyred by heretics in 1615. Photo by Fr. Lawrence, OP. Part I: Seeing Holy Mass with Benedictine Eyes Part II: Seeing Holy Mass with Carmelite Eyes Part III: Seeing Holy Mass with Dominican Eyes Part IV: Seeing Holy Mass with Franciscan Eyes The old saying,…
Above: Archbishop Lefebvre greeted in Veldhoven after celebrating a Latin Mass in 1981. Editor’s note: as previously stated, we publish now Mr. Cassman’s reply to Mr. Bartel’s debrief of their debate, which will be the final installment in our SSPX debate series. Editor’s remarks and an official editorial statement will follow reflecting on the year’s…
Above: Pope Paul VI with one of his greatest critics, Joseph Ratzinger, whom he appointed bishop and then cardinal in 1977 before his death. When Vatican II Turned Forty Twenty years ago, a week before the fortieth anniversary of the opening of Vatican II, Mr George Weigel, a great admirer of that assembly, wrote an…
Editor’s note: to celebrate the feast of one of our patrons at OnePeterFive, we present this report from our contributing editor, Eric Sammons, on the recent event for his cause. Last weekend in the Dallas suburb of Plano, the Blessed Karl Symposium gathered together almost 700 men, women, and children to hear about the life…
350 years ago, on October 20, 1672, the solemn feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, with the approval of many Bishops in France, was observed for the first time.[1] The liturgical worship began with the priest born in Normandy, St. John Eudes (†1680), who was responsible for the first liturgical office celebrated in honor…
Above: painting in the museum of San Marco in Florence showing St. Clare and St. Francis in holy conversation. Photo by Fr. Lawrence, OP. Part I: Seeing Holy Mass with Benedictine Eyes Part II: Seeing Holy Mass with Carmelite Eyes Part III: Seeing Holy Mass with Dominican Eyes An exact contemporary of Saint Dominic, Saint…
Sixty years ago this month, Papa Roncalli was carried into the Second Vatican Council after an hours-long procession and delivered the speech (“Medicine of Mercy”) which opened that council. I believe that in time, historians will later call this council the “Post-War Council.” Why? Because the Council was dominated by the post-World War II context…
Above: 15th century Franciscan Abbey ruins. County Donegal, Ireland. It has been surprisingly easy for the Anti-Christian Revolution, that is now in full course, to throw the West into Cultural Marxist ‘Woke’ spiritual and cognitive confusion. By investigating two flaws in the reaction that we have made against these attacks on Western culture we might…
Italian Reality Check As I sit in my salotto to write this in my apartment in Garbatella, the same Roman neighborhood where Giorgia Meloni was raised, outside there is some sort of political gathering. I don’t know which one of the numerous Italian parties it is, but it is a rather pathetic gathering of maybe…
Two centuries ago, on the morning of October 13, 1822, in Venice “died a sublime Christian” the artist for whose work “the sculpture came out renewed”, as we read on the memorial tablet placed on the door of his Roman studio: Antonio Canova.[1] He was born 65 years earlier, on November 1, 1757 in Possagno,…
