Read the first part of Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange’s reflections on Pauline mortification. The Consequences of Our Personal Sins A second motive that renders mortification necessary is found in the consequences of our personal sins. St. Paul insists on this point in the Epistle to the Galatians, by noting especially the effects of sins against charity:…
Recently, I listened to a podcast from last summer by my friend and colleague, Trent Horn, titled, “Exposing Fr. Martin’s Slippery Tactics.” As usual, Trent was lucid, compelling, and impeccably intellectually honest and fair. Decrying those who assume the motives, intentions, and “real” beliefs of Fr. Martin, Trent asks a rhetorical question and issues a…
From the pre-Lent, “Gesima” Sundays onward, Holy Mother Church began her plunge into liturgical death. At first we lost the “Alleluia,” the Gloria, and on Sundays we dressed in penitential violet to herald the proximity of Lent. With Lent, these privations applied every day, with the exception of our great feasts. Moreover, we became stiller…
Read the last chapter before this one Table of Contents Start reading from chapter 1 Chapter 13 Malthus my boy, The quarrel you have described that took place between the couple has been perhaps the most encouraging thing I have read in quite a while. It was a veritable explosion, which I might add,…
Please join us for the third monthly Rosary Rally outside of Holy Name Cathedral on Sunday, April 3rd from 11AM – Noon. This third Rosary rally will be important: in addition to banning the Latin Mass on the first Sunday of the month, Cardinal Cupich has also banned the ancient rite during the Sacred Triduum…
A few weeks ago in an article about the appeal for Russian Consecration, I announced that OnePeterFive had taken Bl. Emperor Karl as one of its heavenly patrons. This was occasioned by the sad reality of the war in Ukraine, part of which was under Blessed Karl’s dominions at the start of the Great War…
On January 14th of this year, we reported that “Catholic Fighting Men in America Launch Crusade Against Communism.” This was a 54-day Rosary crusade beginning on January 31st and ending on March 25th, the Feast of the Annunciation. Pope Francis then, having consecrated his whole pontificate to Our Lady of Fatima on March 13th, 2013,…
(Above): Illustration from a Prince Hall Masonic convention in 1920. Freemasonry as Method of Subterfuge Among Black Americans In 2003, I wrote what had soon become a groundbreaking book on the history of Prince Hall Freemasonry (the predominately Black sect of Freemasonry in America), entitled, Inside Prince Hall, which included a chapter entitled, ‘The Christianization…
Photo: St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York City. Erected 1878. I was in my early twenties. I do not recall the day or the year, only that I must have been somewhere between 22 and 24 years old, likely on the younger end of the age range. I was in my undergraduate years, studying history at…
August 13, 1807, was a night to remember in the Dominican convent of Jesus Maria in Guadalajara, the second largest city in Mexico. The church of Jesus Maria is a five minute walk from the mammoth Guadalajara Cathedral and the zocalo (the central plaza of the city). Guadalajara is in the western part of the country in…
As a society we are losing our will to live. Perhaps we do not even know how to live anymore. Rather, we abandon ourselves to an insatiable pursuit of comfort. And then, to compound our madness, we burden our youth with this inane existence. I will illustrate with an all too familiar, all too tiresome,…
