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From the pre-Lent Sundays onward, Holy Mother Church has led us into a liturgical dying. First there was the silencing of the Alleluia and the Gloria. Violet appeared on Sundays as a herald of the coming fast. Then Lent itself deepened the deprivation day by day, save for the interruption of the greater feasts. Flowers…
News from around the Church and the world… Pope Leo has called for a meeting of the presidents of the world’s bishops’ conferences to Rome in October. The topic? The controversial document Amoris laetitia, Pope Francis’s document on the family that opened the door for divorced-and-remarried Catholics to receive Communion. My (unrealistic) hope is that…
Recently, Crisis Magazine published an article titled “A Catholic’s Dubia for the SSPX,” in which the author, Daniel Waldow, asked a number of questions regarding the status of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) as well as its views on some questions of concern in the postconciliar Church. The answers below were written by…
As an avid reader, I try to read everything worthwhile I can get my hands on that concerns modern church history and especially the traditional movement. One of the best such books, truly indispensable, is Yves Chiron’s Between Rome and Rebellion: A History of Catholic Traditionalism with Special Attention to France. On pp. 283–84, we…
A careful analysis can reveal the omnipresence of evolutionism, simultaneously with the metaphysical relativism repeatedly denounced by Joseph Ratzinger. From the outset I must clarify that “evolutionism” does not refer only to the supposed dynamics of species in the animal or plant world. Often it is also applied to human society. For example, when you…
I teach a Confirmation class of about 65 kids—eighth graders from the public school in a middle-class town in Connecticut. These kids are not from particularly devout families, and many of them were not churchgoers until it was mandated by our Confirmation program. But a few weeks ago, as the lessons were drawing to a…
The Internet is a modern invention, yet the aspiration to create some all-knowing, omniscient mechanical device with an answer to everything—a hubristic, artificial version of God—has a much longer history than the formal inauguration of the World Wide Web back in 1991. A Brass or Brazen Head was an imaginary medieval Artificial Intelligence-type device, said…
Above: Dietrich von Hildebrand, “Doctor of the Church in the 20th century” Dear OnePeterFive Confraternity Members, supporters and readers, As some of you may know, I count myself a disciple of Dietrich and Alice von Hildebrand. Why do I say “disciple”? Simply put, they are the “Doctors of the Church in the Modern Period.” As…
Above: Bishop Schneider celebrating the ancient Roman Rite in Steubenville, OH at St. Peter’s church. Photo by Allison Girone. OnePeterFive is pleased to present the following excerpt from Bishop Schneider’s important book-length interview, The Springtime That Never Came (regular price $21.95, on sale at this moment at Sophia for $10!), which our contributing editor Dr….
Neo-atheist Sam Harris once remarked that William Lane Craig, Christian philosopher and acclaimed debater against deniers of God, had “put the fear of God” into his fellow atheists. For me, it was Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen who instilled the fear of God in my own soul. Beyond his powerful voice and dramatic delivery, it was…
