Epistle: Romans 8:18-23 Gospel: Luke 5:1-11 Grant us, we beseech Thee, O Lord, that both the course of this world may be peacefully ordered for us by Thy governance, and that Thy Church may rejoice in quiet devotion. —From the Collect for the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost Although this Sunday is the Fourth Sunday after…
Four years ago this week, in an America that could not have predicted the election of Donald Trump, I wrote a column about the failing American experiment. The title, “A Republic Not Kept Is Lost,” referred to the words of Benjamin Franklin, who, when asked by a group of people waiting outside the 1787 Constitutional…
Editor’s note: What you are about to read is — or should be — an obvious fiction, imagining what the next Vatican synod on regional indigenous peoples might propose. And yet, with a passage in the Amazonian synod working document that speaks of living “in harmony” with “nature, in dialogue with the spirits” (IL #75),…
Note: Skip to the On the Contrary if you are not familiar with a Thomistic article. Objection 1: It seems that Patriotism is not a virtue. For our Lord said, My Kingdom is not of this world (Jn. xviii. 36) and, further, we are strangers and pilgrims (I Pt. ii. 11) whose citizenship is in heaven…
“Hi, my name is Paul, and I’m an ex-Protestant.” Telling my conversion story can sometimes feel as though I were attending some sort of “Church Anonymous” meeting. God and the Bible and prayer have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. Growing up, we went to services every week…
Anyone paying attention will have noticed the steady decline of morals and Christian values in mainstream entertainment. Conversation among Christians, in person and online, is filled with statements such as “Don’t give your money to Hollywierd” and that we are “slowly fed poison” by movies and TV. These are too often correct: much in the…
In a recent interview with America magazine, Archbishop Rino Fisichella praised the “dynamic nature” of sacred Tradition. Such Tradition, he maintained, is “first and foremost living.” We must not view Tradition as hidebound, the archbishop implied, because denying the “dynamic nature of tradition is tantamount to denying the contemporaneity of the Christian faith.” Here I…
In a homily delivered at Chartres on Pentecost Monday in 2015, His Excellency Bishop Athanasius Schneider offered to the pilgrims gathered there both an analysis of the most pressing challenge facing the Church today as well a strategy for meeting and, with the grace of God, mastering that challenge: “In our time, the natural family…
(Note: In some areas, this Sunday is celebrated as the Third Sunday after Pentecost. See last week’s reflection for an explanation of “External Solemnities.”) Epistle: Ephesians 3:8-19 Gospel: John 19:31-37 O God, who in the Heart of Thy Son, wounded by our sins, dost mercifully vouchsafe to bestow upon us the boundless treasures of Thy love:…
On Saturday, May 18, 2019, a Solemn High Mass was celebrated in the Mariners’ Memorial Chapel on the campus of the United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA), the first traditional Latin Mass celebrated there in fifty years. The following is an interview with Midshipman Brian Rainwater, 1/C, who organized and coordinated this historic event. Tell…
On 16 May OnePeterFive described the takeover of power in the Order of Malta by the German, secularising party led by the Grand Chancellor, Baron von Boeselager. The story goes back to December 2016, when the then Grand Master, Fra Matthew Festing, attempted to dismiss Boeselager. The latter got Cardinal Parolin, the Vatican Secretary of…
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