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Dear donors, supporters and readers of OnePeterFive, It is the year of the reign of Jesus Christ, MMXXV. I’m very thankful to everyone who joined our new Confraternity by chipping in and pledging to invoke our patrons for the sake of our apostolate. Our end-of-year fundraiser surpassed its goal, because of your support! Make sure…
Of all things, the recent debate about the H-1B visa program has illustrated a division in attitudes in what is vaguely known as the conservative movement. The program is supposedly to allow visas to qualified technical workers for the good of the development of business and technology. The three billionaires associated with the so-called populist…
We have a lot of spaceship churches in these parts, here in Northern Virginia, lots of churches in the round. If they look like churches, which most of them really don’t, they look like they may have been Protestant of a certain vintage. The three local churches we attend on Sunday or daily are perfect…
January is always a hard crash for me. Each year, the pleasant lead-up to Thanksgiving is followed by a fast-clipped Christmas season right on its heels. New Year’s Eve quickly closes everything out in a disappointing mélange of unmet expectations and forced revelry. And then, for the next of couple months, it’s a descent into…
For all its good intentions, the grand project of Eucharistic Revival is barely limping to its finish line. Applause is in order, for at least it noticed a precipitous loss of faith in the central mystery of Catholicism. But its cure was carefully wrapped in the naïve gauze that created the fatal lapse in the…
The Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God is January 1st each year. The Church specifically places this commemoration on the first day of the calendar year for a reason: our entire year should be given to the Blessed Mother. For too many Catholics, Mary is an afterthought. Devotion to her is too often seen as…
This article is the first of a 10-part series that will explore miracles as proof of the truths of Catholic doctrine. The series cover the following topics: Drawing from both the wisdom of intellectual giants like Monsignor Joseph Fenton, the catechisms, and objective third party scientists, there can be no doubt that God confirms beyond…
Jimmy Carter died at the age of 100 on December 29, after a life that went from Georgia peanut farmer to president of the United States. But it was not so much his presidency that earned Mr. Carter fame as it was his Georgia-peanut-farmer decency. As history has it, Jimmy Carter was a feeble president…
In spite of these clear words, this First Amendment right was violated on December 5, 2023, when Southern Baptist and Christian Zionist Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, pushed House Resolution 894 through Congress on that date. Here is the exact language of the violation in the Resolution: “(3) calls on elected officials and…
Dom Alcuin Reid’s monograph, The Organic Development of the Liturgy (Ignatius Press, 2005), represents a significant contribution to the rediscovery of the liturgical Tradition that had been obscured by the “mutation” following the replacement of the Liturgy of the Ages with the liturgy of Pope Paul VI. A careful reading of this volume, including the…
