OnePeterFive is now accepting unsolicited submissions for article drafts. Please read our editorial stance and familiarize yourself with our content before submitting. We are looking for writers who can help us to rebuild Catholic culture and restore Catholic tradition with a pragmatic approach to understanding and overcoming the challenges Catholics face in today’s Church.
Our features typically run 800-1500 words in length, though longer articles will be considered if the subject warrants. We welcome your photographs and any images which you have the right to publish if they are appropriate for the article.
We prefer an article pitch before acceptance of a fully written piece. Submissions may be emailed to onepeterfivesubmissions [at] gmail [dot] com. Put your article title in the subject line, and information about the article (and any attachments) in the body. If you are a first time writer, please include a headshot and short bio. Please allow 4-6 weeks for a reply and consideration. Some submissions may take longer.
Please note that due to the volume of email we receive, only those pitches we choose to publish are guaranteed a response.
The following list is written in order of importance for what we want to publish. Submissions which do not prioritise these things might not get published.
1. Practical Steps to Rebuild Christendom in souls and societies. This is the most important because we want to channel all the energy of the Trad movement into something positive and constructive. Traditional Catholics worldwide are doing this, and we need to share what we are doing to help support one another in a positive way. This can range from restoring lost customs, to celebrating the history of Catholic cities, like St. Louis, to the aesthetics of female fashion, to what is most important: the spiritual wisdom of the saints for our lives of prayer and spiritual combat. This also includes personal stories of individual souls coming to Tradition and staying faithful to Tradition, as well as general pieces about the Trad movement and its goals, and Trad parenting.
2. Articles on our lay sodalities (especially for June, Sacred Heart month): the Crusade, the Fellowship and the Icon. With our lay sodalities we have attempted to provide an opportunity for Catholics to do something about the crisis in the Church and society. Therefore we prioritise second everything which relates to our sodalities, especially in our favourite month, June.
3. Articles about our patrons: Our Lady of Fatima under her Russian icon, Bl. Emperor Karl, St. Maximilian Kolbe and Sr. Wilhelmina. We believe that our patrons are especially powerful for helping the Trad movement merit the graces necessary to overcome its own difficulties and help to save souls. Drawing from their lives, wisdom, and holiness, we want to publish material which galvanises souls in our time.
4. Stories of our Trad Godfathers: The Coetus, Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, the Hildebrands, Lefebvre, Senior, Oliveira, Görres, and more. Along with our patrons, we want to promote the zeal of our Trad godfathers in the movement. A new generation of traditionalists is rising, but they need to be connected with their own Trad godfathers who came before them and were fighting the good fight since 1962 and before. They faced darker times than we do now. How did they get through it? What did they do? What were their successes and failures? What is the wisdom they can pass down to us? Recent historical studies by Chiron and Porfiri are of note here.
5. The History and Beauty of Catholic Culture and Christendom. One of my favourite things about an online journal is that we can publish pieces about truth, goodness, and beauty that print media cannot publish. We can write about the history of music and provide links to the music with high resolution photos and paintings. Yet the beauty of Christendom is not only its sublime aesthetic value, but also the metaphysical truth behind it and the goodness of its moral system. These articles are words of gratitude for what our forefathers built with God’s help, and they inspire us to rebuild today. This goes from African Christendom to Polish Christendom to American to the Irish Fighting Spirit, and everything in between, including our series on the Doctors of the Church.
6. The Postliberal Conversation. This is a discussion of Catholic social thought regarding the political and economic implication of a crumbling Liberal state worldwide, and how to build out of these ashes. This is the lay domain of civil society where we discuss everything from the British Monarchy and the American Republic, to the “lost boys of the internet” and the home economy. Particularly we want to emphasise the doctrine of the Two Swords against the Liberal distinction of “Church and State.”
7. Ultramontanism and the Spirit of Vatican I. At OnePeterFive we believe that the crisis of our time did not begin with Vatican II, but was a result of various roots in the 19th century, especially a clericalist conception of the Church, which finds its climax in the false spirit of Vatican I. Articles exploring ultramontanism, clericalism, and Vatican I are desired for this important series. (Many of these articles have now been collected in one volume by Os Justi Press).
8. Vatican II at Sixty. 2022 marked sixty years since the opening of Vatican II. Once we delve deeper into the clericalism and ultramontanism that already existed, then we can properly understand what happened at Vatican II. Many Trad critiques of Vatican II fail to take into account this deeper analysis of this Council and fail to distinguish the many layers of meaning from the various players: from those who would founded the Concilium journal and their variance with the Communio school of thought, to the Eastern Catholic view and especially the Coetus Internationalis Patrum, our Trad godfathers. Therefore submissions in this category must first read and review the Pre- and Post-Vatican II decline and collapse of theology (here and here) and then understand better the historical context of the Council as a “post-war” event. We particularly wish to promote the high standard set by the studies of Kirwan (here and here), Sire, Wemhoff, and Bishop Schneider and other such erudite voices. Articles tackling Vatican II must be well-versed in the content published in response to Trads, especially people like DeClue, Chapp, Nichols (here and here) and Wicks, after a careful study of all 16 documents.
9. Synod Watch: Current events affecting the Trad movement. These articles are among our most popular, but we believe they are less important than the aforementioned topics, especially due to the spiritual danger of following every new piece of news out of the Vatican. Nevertheless, this forms a necessary part of our movement, and we can publish these submissions much faster, as long as they promote 1.) respect for the Holy Father and the bishops, our fathers in the Church, and 2.) avoid all sensationalism, providing good sources and sober analysis. This includes both current words and actions of the Pope and Bishops (example), as well as a deep analysis of every new document that comes out (example).
10. Romanitas. As traditionalists we are not just fighting for the Latin Mass, but also the Latin language itself and the whole Latin culture that God provided for the Church before Christ was born. This is Romanitas, and it forms an integral part of Catholic culture and thus the Roman Catholic Church. The fact that the Roman Church cannot speak or write in the Roman tongue is just a manifestation of an overall loss of Romanitas.
11. The Conversion of Russia. Like all followers of Fatima, we promote the conversion of Russia to the Catholic Church. This topic covers all things about the history and culture of Kievan-Rus’ (including the current Ukraine Crisis) with particular emphasis on the Catholic Church of the Byzantine rite inside Russia.
12. Hispanidad. An important part of our history is Baroque Civilisation, which was formed out of the Council of Trent and the Christianisation of Renaissance Humanism. The shining example of this is the Iberian cultures of Spain and Portugal, which have shaped the post-Trent world for Jesus and Mary. But the history of this reality has been obscured in English by centuries of Anglican propaganda. So this series aims to change that sad fact by spreading information about the glories of Hispanidad for Christendom.
13. Eastern Orthodoxy. A critical piece of the puzzle in our time is the false Greek ressourcement of the Neo-Modernists at and after Vatican II. The important point is that against this there is indeed a true ressourcement and a true ecumenism with the east, which is traditional and orthodox. Failing to see this fact, many Trad arguments about Vatican II do not provide the necessary depth in this area. Yet more, a significant number of Catholics are tempted to leave Rome for the east, hoping for some way out of this mess. This series aims to address both aspects of this: the true ecumenism with the east and the apologetic against the Greek schisms.
14. Special note: Sedevacantism. Finally we come to the subject of sedevacantism. This issue covers the various forms of the hypothesis, including the so-called “BIP” hypothesis (Beneplenism). However, this is not a subject that we wish to focus too much on. An article or two per quarter is plenty.