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The Lord of the Rings returns to movie theaters this weekend and is proving as popular as ever. The re-release of the three Peter Jackson-produced films to mark the 25th anniversary of the release of the first of the three films, The Fellowship of Ring, has generated $5 million in domestic presales, with roughly 407,000…
We have made a firm move into Epiphanytide, that brief but densely charged stretch of the liturgical year which carries us from the great Feast itself toward the threshold of Septuagesima. Even as the calendar advances, there remains a strong magnetic pull back toward Epiphany, as though the Church, having once beheld the manifestation of…
Above: King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette statues at the site of their relics interred at the Basilique cathédrale Saint-Denis. January as a whole is part of Christmastide, during which we are still celebrating the birth of the King of Kings. On January 6, in the Latin Rite of the Church, we commemorate the…
Perhaps the most striking oddity of the human mind is the fact that while it is constantly driven to ask questions it may not ignore, nevertheless, given its inherent limitations, it hasn’t the capacity to answer any of them. Who am I? Why am I here? Where am I going? These are questions no rational…
Global Homo may be a new term for you. Tucker Carlson used it the other night about our strike against Nicolás Maduro. You rather instantly knew what it meant, though—gunboat diplomacy bringing homosexual marriage to Caracas. Tucker also said recently that he didn’t know anyone who had been killed by radical Islam and that “OnlyFans”…
OnePeterFive Podcast Bishops against Bishops on the TLM: Where Will Leo Land? 00:00 / 00:06:40 Two days ago Diane Montagna revealed that “one of four texts… Source Read More
With women now occupying more than a third of all college presidencies, the feminization of higher‑education leadership is no longer a trend but a governing paradigm. It is likely that the shift has accelerated the drift toward process‑heavy, conflict‑averse administrative cultures that impede institutional clarity. It has also entrenched a politicized culture that prizes emotional…
Stranger Things is a science fiction drama set in 1980s small-town America, where the disappearance of a child exposes secret government experiments, a shadow realm known as the Upside Down, and an emerging supernatural menace later personified in the figure of Vecna. Across its seasons, and especially in its later ones, the series blends Cold…
Above: Venice, Italy. Three hundred and fifty years ago, on January 14, 1676, Venice mourned the death of Francesco Cavalli, the eleventh maestro di cappella—that is, the director of music—of St. Mark’s and one of the most influential figures of the Baroque musical period. Born in 1602 in Crema, near Cremona, Cavalli—christened Pier Francesco Caletti-Bruni—was…
I have always enjoyed the challenge provided by that timeless pastime the jigsaw puzzle. The picture puzzle, to employ its alternate name, never remained a puzzle for very long. My patience was tested, but my resolve never dimmed. The result was that I was able to assemble the many pieces into a unified whole. I…
