Read the last chapter before this one Start reading from chapter 1 *** Malthus my boy, The conversation between the boy and his parents went just as I suspected. No real information was learned by the parents as they had already made up their minds beforehand. Furthermore, the boy is now experiencing significant doubts…
Like the Priesthood, and certainly even more fundamental than any clerical calling, biological fatherhood manifests its form in a single biological act which then reaches through a multiplicity of identities to the very existential zenith defined by God’s own self-revelation. It is a reality which lies at the cornerstone of human experience and being itself,…
As it happens, I wrote about this very Sunday a couple of months ago, at the beginning of November. That’s because of when Easter fell last year. There were few Sundays between Epiphany and pre-Lent’s Septuagesima Sunday and empty slots to fill before Advent 2021 began. Hence, this Sunday’s and next Sunday’s (5th and 6th)…
Editor’s note: please be advised that this article includes graphic details of sexual abuse. It is lamentable that we must discuss this, but unfortunately some are tempting Catholics away from the Roman Church due to the scandals. Ultimately, as Mr. Bieszad argues, this is a human problem which afflicts all religions. Fr. Nikolai Stremsky was…
From the organizers: Rosary Rally for the Latin Mass in Chicago this Sunday, February 6th A Rosary Rally for the Traditional Latin Mass will take place on Sunday, February 6th from 11:00AM – Noon outside of Holy Name Cathedral (735 N. State Street, Chicago, 60654). February 6th is the day Cardinal Cupich’s new restrictions on…
Dear OnePeterFive donors, supporters and readers, Last month we began the year of Our Lord, MMXXII calling for a deeper spiritual focus in our militancy on behalf of the Old Mass of our forefathers. We called for a true crusade – a fight that is divorced from all earthly attachments, but dedicated to the…
Some people maintain that the Church cannot promulgate defective, useless, or harmful rites, citing Pope Pius VI’s Auctorem Fidei n. 78 and Pope Gregory XVI’s regional letter Quo Graviora n. 10. Those who wield these texts do not realize the trap into which they are falling. Let us consider more closely what Pius VI condemned.…
Now Lord, let Thy servant go in peace, Unto whom Thy promise is made good, Now mine eyes indeed have seen His face, Child promised, Savior of the world. Dim these eyes have grown as years have passed, In toils and labors long in Thine employ, Mortal still I am though I outlast, Mortal kith…
Candlemas, as it’s called, is a twofold feast of the Presentation of Our Lord and the Purification of Our Lady, and it marks the end of the forty days of the Christmas season. It is primarily a Marian feast commemorating the obedience of Our Lady and Our Lord to the law of Moses. The name…
Editor’s note: without a doubt, it is spirit of the martyrs that must be rekindled in the hearts of the faithful in our age. Hence our serialization of St. Alphonsus’ great devotional work before Advent last year (which we hope to resume again soon, God willing). It is here that we find the great militant…
Perhaps no term in modern Catholic political discourse is so poorly understood—deliberately or innocently—as “integralism.” The term is bandied about without second thought both by scornful opponents who deride it as “Catholic sharia law” and by wishful utopians who define it as nothing more or less than whatever vaguely traditional throne-and-altar political project they personally…
