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Above: the Eikon Basilike, a purported spiritual autobiography attributed to Charles I, published days after his execution. Oxford, England has long proudly held the titles “Mother of Lost Causes” and “City of Dreaming Spires.” Certainly the latter has bound up this lovely place with the history of English Catholicism – so often defeated, yet only…
Above: the Marquis Luigi Coda Nunziante di San Ferdinando with Raymond Cardinal Burke at a March for Life in Rome. Photo credit. Many years ago I served as choir director for the traditional Mass celebrated in the Roman church of Jesus and Mary. That Mass was very popular with some of the protagonists of Roman…
One good thing about teaching sixth grade is that there is a known standard of behavior and I can hold my students accountable. If only that were true for our so-called leaders. Three recent examples: on May 17, during a House Committee hearing concerning Attorney General Merrick Garland, GOP Rep. Marjorie Greene made a comment…
“Lord,” said the repentant thief on the cross, “remember me when you come into your kingdom.” “Don’t worry about it,” said Jesus. “Your life was not important. You and the other fellow both will be with me today in Paradise.” “Father,” said the rich man from the fires of Gehenna, “send Lazarus over to cool…
I just got off the phone with a friend—an author, Crisis columnist, and writer of more than 1,500 articles—who shared he was planning a 24-hour fast at a nearby chapel with the hope God might lead him out of a writing crisis. “Beware,” I warned him. “You might come out worse than when you went…
Catholics are rightly incensed by the 26 July performance by a group of drag queens and dancers of an apparent “parody of the Last Supper” during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics, which Bishop Robert Barron of Minnesota labeled a “gross mockery of the Last Supper.” The interpretation of the performance as a…
Dear OnePeterFive donors, supporters and readers, Allow me to share with you a tale of two pilgrimages… First, I shipped out to the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage, which ended at the big Congress event last week. I was delighted to see that the Congress integrated the Latin Mass into the schedule not once but twice, and…
Last year, when we were working mostly on the Epistle readings for Sunday Masses in the Usus Antiquior, the Gregorian Rite, the Pian Rite, the Tridentine Rite, the Traditional Latin Mass – the Vetus Ordo, the 10th Sunday after Pentecost was supplanted by the Feast of the Transfiguration. Therefore, let’s circle back and fill in…
Ever since the advent of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s myth of the “noble savage” in the eighteenth century, there has been a tendency to idealize or even idolize those who inhabited the Americas prior to the arrival of the Europeans. In the wake of “woke,” this tendency has become almost obsessive. Such idealization or idolization of the…
Some recent summertime travel caused me to venture into another diocese. As a daily Mass goer, I was thrilled to be in a rental only a block from the basilica. On a Friday afternoon, we entered a beautiful church. We sat in a pew, three of us wearing veils, and were suddenly aware of how…
