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Above: Saint Helen and the Finding of the True Cross by Gérard Douffet (1594-1661). This painting depicts the secondary miracle which proved the true cross after it was found. Part I – The Roman Calendar in 1954: The Last Year of Wholeness Part II – The Vigil of the Epiphany: the Forgotten Gateway to Christ’s…
“When I hear the word culture,” bristled Hermann Göring, “I reach for my revolver.” Since he was, after Adolf Hitler, the second most powerful man in the Third Reich, attention must be paid. And while he almost certainly lifted the line from a hack Nazi playwright named Hanns Johst, it would not have been wise…
Our context in the liturgical year for the 4th Sunday after Easter is our preparation for the Ascension of the Lord. We are now in the second phase of Paschaltide. The first stage looked back toward the empty tomb and drew us into the sacraments of Baptism and the Eucharist. Now the Mass formularies shift…
Journalist Josh Hammer is steamed at Tucker Carlson for many reasons, but most recently he is upset because Tucker said, “Muslims love Jesus.” Hammer is plenty annoyed that Tucker says anything that is complimentary of majority Muslim countries. You cannot say, according to Hammer, that cities in the Gulf states tend to be cleaner and…
The dustup continues from Donald Trump’s eruption against Pope Leo on his Truth Social two weeks ago. President Trump seems to have cooled off and pulled back from his recent diatribes against the Holy Father, and in the meantime, we’re learning what really set him seething. What triggered Trump’s post was something that I suspected….
OnePeterFive Podcast Vatican Prepares to Excommunicate the SSPX 00:00 / 00:05:21 Reports are emerging that the Vatican has prepared an excommunication order… Source Read More
I have searched over the years for saints who wrote literature. Of course, we have King David and his Psalms—the most well-known poems in the history of the world, still recited today by Christians everywhere. Before David, the prophet Nathan—the one who rebuked him for his terrible sins—used the means of fiction to wisely provoke…
There is no doubt in my mind that Leo is the true and valid pope. The question in my mind is, “the pope of what?” “He is the pope of the Catholic Church,” you might say. Your answer assumes that the Church of Rome is the Holy Catholic Church that was founded by Jesus Christ….
Russian novels tend to be about as big and sprawling as that larger-than-life country itself: Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, Tolstoy’s War and Peace, Goncharov’s Oblomov, Solzhenitsyn’s Cancer Ward, and the crowd-pleasing Doctor Zhivago by Pasternak. Each stretches well over 500 pages—and even the “short” stories of Chekhov can border on novellas. So it should probably…
The latest assassination attempt on President Trump is shocking only in that it is no longer shocking. Every American should be alarmed at what happened at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner this past Saturday, yet what prevails instead is a “ho-hum” attitude, as if violence against our political leaders—especially against Trump or anyone associated with…
