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OnePeterFive Podcast “Quoting” Pope St. Pius X, Pope Leo Comments on the SSPX’s Inspirational Documents from Vatican II 00:00 / 00:06:05 Pope Leo has… Source Read More
When Catholics of earlier generations opened their missals in 1954, they held in their hands not a mere schedule of ceremonies but the living memory of the Church. Each page testified to the slow, organic growth of the Roman Rite through the centuries—a harmony of theology, devotion, and asceticism that sanctified every day of the…
Recently, I had occasion to pull down from the shelves a copy of John Donne’s collected poetry, republished in 2012 by a major press, with a new introduction and notes. I was going to discuss one of the stanzas in Donne’s “La Corona,” a crown-poem, as the last line of each of the seven stanzas…
One by one, as though on a conga line for the Democratic National Committee, our bishops last November recited a scripted Instagram paean to illegal immigration. Moreover, at the end of their recent November meeting, it was reported that they also, by overwhelming majority, huffed and puffed: “We oppose the indiscriminate mass deportation of peoples.”…
Christmas fast approaches – for many (including this writer) the climax and favourite time of the year. It is an amazing break from routine, and a chance to escape the humdrum and the horrid that accompany so much of everyday life – increasingly so in recent years, it seems. As with seemingly every year for…
Surely one of the most provocative conversations this year has been that sparked by conservative essayist Helen Andrews, whose October essay “The Great Feminization”—which censured what she describes as the feminization of Western institutions—went so viral that even liberal corporate media couldn’t ignore it. The New York Times welcomed her to write an op-ed on…
Recently the great Phil Lawler wrote a provocative piece titled “Why I am not (quite, yet) a Traditionalist.” It’s a title that’s sure to get clicks, but unlike most clickbait titles, this one leads to an article worth reading. So with apologies to Mr. Lawler for adapting his title in the hopes of also getting…
With apologies to the faithful Flannery O’Connor and with no apologies whatsoever to the weirdo Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Advent could be summarized as “everything that rises must converge”. Within the rhythm of the Advent season, the 4th Sunday stands as a moment of concentration and convergence. From the beginning, the season forms the…
When I was 15 going on 16, my aunt took me on The Sound of Music Tour in Salzburg and photographed me in front of the iconic gazebo where Robert Wise shot the “Sixteen Going on Seventeen” number in 1965’s The Sound of Music. Despite traipsing through the von Trapp’s hometown, my acquaintance with them…
In her most recent Crisis article, Breaking Up With Toxic Femininity, Ann Burns points out the hypocrisy of many “conservative” strains of anti-feminism: they fall prey to the same lie that many liberal feminists do, viewing women through a hypersexualized, pornographic lens. I agree with her main critique; conservatives cannot attempt to revive traditional values…
