Editor’s note: just as there are disagreements about Vatican II between hierarchs such as Bishop Schneider, Archbishop Vigano and Cardinals Burke and Sarah, traditionalists disagree about the history, nature and future of Vatican II. Mr. Litwinski here offers another perspective which addresses the central claims made by the Roman Pontiff on this issue in Traditionis…
450 years ago, on December 27, 1571, a mathematician and astronomer, who sought the music of God in the skies, was born in Weil der Stadt, near Stuttgart in Germany: Johannes Kepler. At the age of 19 he enrolled in the Theological Facoltà of the University of Tübingen, where he studied, in addition to theology,…
These are busy days so let’s plunge right in. Here are a few fast points to enrich your participation at Holy Mass for Christmas and for the Sunday in the Christmas Octave, back to back this year, in the Vetus Ordo, the Traditional Roman Mass, the Mass of our forebears which gave shape to all…
On December 21, 2021, Bishop Michael Burbidge of the Diocese of Arlington (one of the most Conservative dioceses) issued the following memo to the priests of his diocese: Dear Brother Priests, In light of the Responsa ad dubia released by the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments last Saturday, some priests…
In our first essay we discussed some of the horrors of the three pornocracies of the Church, and suggested the term “Third Pornocracy” to be an accurate historical description of our own epoch. It is helpful, I believe, because the term truly describes the reality of how bad the corruption is, but it also reminds…
OnePeterFive has requested articles on both sides of the SSPX debate. I hate to break the rules, but I want to suggest a third side. I am not God. But if I were, I probably would not allow hundreds of millions of children to be tortured to death in their mother’s wombs. I probably would…
Author’s Note: Readers who follow Rod Dreher at The American Conservative may have noticed an article published on December 18th in which he cites my article from OnePeterFive on the Responsa ad Dubia document, followed by a quotation from a recent Substack post of Steve Skojec arguing against the traditionalists. Mr. Dreher then mentions that…
This past summer, just before the God of Surprises ordained it be revealed that Grindr users’ location data is accessible to the public, Pope Francis issued something unsurprising to traditional Catholics who didn’t have their heads in the sand – Traditionis Custodes. I’ve heard and read a lot of things along the lines of this:…
Much ink has been spilled over the topic of the Society of Saint Pius X, and I do not pretend to offer any novel theological argument in this essay. You see, I cannot pretend to have any sophisticated letters to add at the end of my name, as can such an esteemed Catholic apologist and…
“Along came a man sent by God, and his name was Marcel.” The words of the late Catholic apologist Michael Davies in his debate with Dr. E. Michael Jones. The author of this current missive has been given the opportunity to mount a defense in favor of the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) and…
On the day Traditionis Custodes was released, I compared it to the detonation of the first atomic bomb in New Mexico on the same date in 1945. With the release on December 18 of the Responsa Ad Dubia—essentially an instruction on the implementation of the motu proprio—a similar comparison suggests itself. There were two atomic…
