Above: Catholic counter-revolutionary Joseph de Maistre. The crisis the Church is experiencing today is certainly unprecedented in its characteristics, but it is neither the first nor the last in history. Think, for example, of the attack suffered by the Papacy …
Karl Rahner and the Unspoken Framework of (Much of) Modern Theology
Charles Coulombe’s interesting remark in a recent article that Pius XII, for all his intransigence against dogmatic modernism, allowed Father Karl Rahner, S.J., to be the editor of the prestigious Denzinger prompted me to take up the question of Rahner’s …
Submission to the Non-Infallible Papal Magisterium is Conditional
In a previous article (here), I made the case that the pope, when he exercises his non-infallible teaching authority, as he typically does in encyclical letters, apostolic exhortations, letters to bishops, etc., does not speak therein with the full authority …
Wilton Gregory and the Trad Re-Education Camps
It is a rainy Tuesday evening, and a large group is gathered in the parish hall at St. Paul VI Roman Catholic Church. Not just women are gathered, which is odd for this parish, but men too. And children, countless …
El Pórtico de la Gloria and the Music of Pilgrims
Today is the Feast of St. James the Greater, the apostle “friend of the Lord” together with Peter and John. Nine hundred years ago, in 1122, while the last stone of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela was being laid, …
When Life Gives You Manure, Maybe it’s Time for Changes
With this 7th Sunday after Pentecost in the Vetus Ordo Holy Church began a series of contrasts. She shows us the difference between the Kingdom of God and the kingdom of this world, between the divine and the mundane. Context …
Washington Bishop Ignores Biden, Targets TLM “Following the Holy Father”
O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee, and especially for the enemies of Holy Church. Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, patroness of these United States, pray for us. Above: the side altar at …
German Schismatic Way Responds to the Holy See “With Irritation”
As we reported yesterday, a welcome rebuke of the German Schismatic Way was released from the Holy See, making clear that schismatics and heretics “find themselves separated from the entire ecclesial body, they weaken, rot and die” (quoting His Holiness). …
The Legal Positivism of the Pro-Life Movement
St. Thomas Aquinas states in his Summa that there are four integral parts of any law. These are 1) accordance with reason, 2) benefit to the objective common good, and 3) promulgation 4) by a rightful authority who has legitimate …
Good News from the Vatican? Holy See Rebukes German Schismatic Way
As we have analysed at OnePeterFive, the Synod on Synodality has all the markings of the “dream” of Cardinal Martini and the St. Gallen Mafia. If this is true of the latest synod-in-the-works, it holds true a fortiori of the …