Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series on the topic of cultivating a more authentic taste in music. The second part is available here. There is an old saying that “one can find Catholic music performed everywhere except in Catholic Churches.” I was reminded of this tragically accurate quip when I was recently…
You no doubt have already heard the news. If you are like most of us, you may be feeling shock and dismay. The cause for the canonization of Bishop Fulton Sheen has been derailed by the Archdiocese of New York for reasons unknown. And it has been accomplished through what appears to be nothing more…
In a report that seems not 100% verifiable is now confirmed, the National Catholic Register has picked up a story that there is a September 21 meeting date between Cardinal Müller, head of the CDF, and Bishop Fellay, superior general of the Society of St. Pius X. You may recall that there were ongoing talks during the pontificate of…
Last week, the Vatican took pains to deny that Pope Francis is in the crosshairs of the Islamic State (IS). And yet, there is reason to believe that there is more to the threat than the Vatican wants to let on. While on the surface, threats like this from the Islamic State against the pope may seem shocking…
Last week approximately 500 Catholic leaders and their pastors from around the country gathered in Denver, Colorado for the first Amazing Parish conference to “brainstorm and swap ideas about improving parish life.” As reported by the Catholic News Agency: “The newly-founded Amazing Parish movement seeks to provide resources to pastors and parish leaders so they…
There’s a scene in Evelyn Waugh’s masterpiece novel, Brideshead Revisited, that I often recall, to my amusement. Father Mowbray is giving instructions in the Catholic faith to a lapsed Protestant named Rex Mottram. Mister Mottram isn’t really sincere in his conversion (in fact he’s completely disinterested in spiritual matters), but he very much wants to…
For those of our readers outside the United States, you may not know that today is Labor Day – a national holiday. It just so happens that it comes at the end of our very first month online. It’s been a good month. We went from absolutely nobody knowing who we were at the end of July to…
As the publisher of OnePeterFive, I make the editorial decisions on which topics to cover to further our vision of Catholic restoration. When we launched on August 1st, I intended to run a brief series educational pieces on Islam after some initial collaboration with Andrew Bieszad. I soon questioned this choice, however, finding myself concerned about taking a confrontational…
Although it shows up on the homepage and to subscribers through iTunes, etc., the 1P5 Podcast is conspicuously absent from our site’s RSS feed. I’ll be working to find a solution to that for next week. Until then, here’s a link to today’s episode, in which I interview Fr. Richard Heilman about spiritual warfare, his…
In his 2002 book “The New Persecuted”, Italian journalist Antonio Socci reported that two thirds of the Christians martyred in history were in the twentieth century. Persecution of Christians by German National Socialism, atheistic Communism and radical Islam made the last century an Age of Martyrs. Sadly, it seems as though it was simply…
[powerpress] Today we interview Fr. Richard Heilman, founder of several apostolates and creator of the WWI-based Combat Rosary. Fr. Heilman’s Facebook page. You can find the Knights of the Divine Mercy here. The combat rosary is available from RomanCatholicGear.com.
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