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Above: Christ Before the High Priest by Gerard van Honthorst (1617). Among the epochal books I have reread countless times over the past twenty years, a special place is occupied by Joseph Ratzinger’s famous post-doctoral dissertation, Die Geschichtstheologie des heiligen Bonaventura (1959). Translated into English in 1971 under the title The Theology of History in…
Above: Cardinal Wilton Gregory and Fr. Vimal Tirimanna of Sri Lanka. (CNS/Vatican Media) Fifty years ago, in November of 1974, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre penned a brief but powerful Declaration — a manifesto against “the Rome of neo-Modernist and neo-Protestant tendencies which were clearly evident in the Second Vatican Council and, after the Council, in all…
A few months ago, the first trailer for the long-anticipated sequel to the 2000 film Gladiator was released. Gladiator was the first R-rated film that I ever watched from start to finish, and I remember it vividly. The film, a standard revenge story, boasts fantastic set pieces, an epic score, and plenty of battle and…
I think there’s something Providential about the proximity of Thanksgiving and Election Day, however man-made both days may be. The entire nation pents itself up for months—years even—for the biannual culmination of history upon which the very soul of our country rests. We yell, fight, debate (or used to), plan and manipulate for what appears…
Above: when Time Magazine named Pope Francis person of the year in November 2013. On May 9, 2019, I argued that the way to wreck the institutional Catholic Church would be to use the Church’s own weapons against herself, especially the power and primacy of the pope. The Catholic Church, of course, is indefectible; but…
On Sunday, the feast of Christ the King according to the New calendar, the Roman Pontiff issued an “Accompanying Note to the Final Document of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops.” He begins this note by invoking Revelation 2:11 of the entire Roman “Synodal Way”: As it happens, this note came…
William Byrd was a bit of an enigma. He was Queen Elizabeth I’s favorite chapel musician and a Catholic during a time when the queen was ordering the deaths of holy men like Robert Southwell and Edmund Campion. For a man whose life, or at least livelihood, depended on staying in the good graces of…
There is a surprising coalition dancing in the streets following the reelection of Donald Trump. We cannot say that the group of political actors involved with Trump’s victory are “conservative” generally. The Republican Party has come to include such a wide range of diverse worldviews, many of which bear no resemblance to a conservative social…
Dr. John Lamont is a theologian well known in traditional Catholic circles for his eloquent and incisive analyses of the many critical doctrinal controversies that have arisen during the pontificate of Pope Francis. Readers of OnePeterFive who have seen Dr. Joseph Shaw’s recent essay will be aware that Lamont has recently added his quite weighty…
The elections in both the United States and Austria—the latter capping a series of elections on the Continent and the collapse of the German government—have come and gone. There are parallels and differences on both sides of the water—and overall is the mutually shared situation in the Catholic Church, which affects and is affected by…
