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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…
Here’s the bad news: thanks to the cynical maneuverings of the military-industrial complex since Election Day, I’m not totally confident—and there’s no reason to be—that most of us will still be alive by President-elect Donald Trump’s planned inauguration date of January 20, 2025. A global thermonuclear war is entirely possible, if not imminent. And if…
With the exceptions of God’s loving mercy and the eternal joy of Heaven, all good things come to their end. This year’s series concludes with a glimpse into the Church’s final Sunday of our liturgical whirl about the Sun. Although this Sunday is – this year – numerically the 27th after Pentecost, we use the…
A large mug arrived in the mail the other day, around which I counted twenty or so apothegms written by St. Augustine. It was a gift, anonymously sent by someone who obviously thought I wasn’t getting enough to read from the celebrated Doctor of Grace—or, that being already familiar with Augustine, it might be a…
