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Editor’s Note: “Rebuilding Catholic culture” is a central aspect of our mission here at OnePeterFive, and we were recently pleased to learn of a Catholic family co-op that is doing just that, in a rather unique area: leatherwork. Below is our interview with Veronica Lam, the main artisan behind Roman Rite Crafts. 1P5: What is…
I am grateful to Fr. Brian Harrison for his discussion of my analysis of the consequences of Francis’s open espousal of heretical theses. I hope my answer to his discussion will advance understanding of the situation. Some of his points have been addressed in my response to Dr. Joseph Shaw’s criticism of my position,[1] and…
I did not think twice about voting for Donald Trump for president three times in my life. However, I have been a bit surprised by the valentines some Catholic writers have penned about him post-election. The fact that he was a much better candidate than his rival should not mean that we are now beholden…
On November 13, 2024, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.) was nominated as the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), a position of tremendous importance that oversees the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and various other agencies. But long before…
Can we finally talk about January 6 without fearing that Feds might bang down our doors at dawn? After all the lives that have smashed on the scaffolding of craftily-edited footage, fantastical narratives, and media malfeasance, can we at last talk about the national disgrace of January 6? No, not the fiction force-fed us by…
The above quote is from well-known film director Martin Scorsese, given during a 2016 interview with Jesuit Fr. Antonio Spadaro, editor of the journal La Civiltà Cattolica. I think we can take Scorsese at his word that Catholicism is important to him. He was raised in a devoutly Catholic home, influenced in his youth by…
Above: the author pictured with Aaron Seng of Tradivox at the CIC Conference in 2024. Dear OnePeterFive donors, supporters and readers, I’m grateful for all of you. Your support made this whole apostolate possible, so that I first discovered OnePeterFive back in 2018 (the “summer of shame”) and started writing here in 2019 (here’s my…
In what has been the greatest political achievement for the LGBTQ+ movement, President-elect Donald Trump last week named hedge fund executive and former partner at Soros Fund Management Scott Bessent to be the United States’ next Secretary of the Treasury. Bessent, who is in a civil marriage to a gay man with whom he is…
One of Hollywood’s more sybaritic starlets solemnly announced the other day that she was embarking on a 30-day “spiritual cleanse” in India. Since neither ecumenism nor eco-enthusiasms are my métier, I was bewildered. Could it be some novel Gnostic excrescence? Or a twenty-first century variation of Stoic apatheia? Perhaps a new twist on commonplace pantheism?…
Dom Prosper Guéranger wrote in his The Liturgical Year: The whole world is in expectation of its Redeemer; come, dear Jesus, show Thyself to it by granting it salvation. The Church, Thy bride, is now commencing another year, and her first word is to Thee, a word which she speaks in the anxious solicitude of…
