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This year’s presidential campaign recalls a criticism Benjamin Disraeli said about some of his fellow Tories on the issue of the Corn Laws. When a member of Parliament advocated for a position the opposite of his party’s traditional stance, Disraeli said, “The right honorable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes….
The readings we are given by Holy Mother Church, repeated year in, year out, have contexts. When you begin, perhaps on Thursday or Friday, to prepare your participation at Sunday Mass, preview the readings and orations so that you can actively receive them as they are pronounced or sung. Look at the surrounding contexts of…
Some have asked me why I wanted to write a book on Catholic traditionalism and what they can find inside my book, The Right Hand of the Lord Is Exalted: A History of Catholic Traditionalism from Vatican II to Traditionis Custodes. First of all, the subtitle says “a history”, not “the history.” I did not…
Dear OnePeterFive donors, supporters and readers, Today marks three years since the publication of our editorial stance, “Unite the Clans to Rebuild Christendom,” on the feast of St. Raymond Nonnatus in the year of the reign of Christ, MMXXI, (shortly after Traditionis Custodes). Since that time we have been formed and grown as an online…
There are two forces at work in the world—gravity and grace—and each of us must choose to follow one or the other. There is no third way. Are we to be moved by the downward pull of the one, leading to dissolution and death? Or do we allow ourselves to be drawn upward by the…
It is not often that the name of Enid Blyton, the bestselling children’s author, is mentioned in the same breath or the same sentence as literary giants such as Homer, Virgil, or Dante. The reason for the unlikely association is in relation to the title of two of her popular series of books featuring the…
The relationship between the pro-life movement and Donald Trump has always been a tenuous one. Trump has never spoken our language, and his opposition to abortion has always seemed pragmatic at best. Yet, unlike previous Republican presidents who did speak our language, he was primarily responsible for achieving the Holy Grail of the movement: the…
I’m not a sci-fi aficionado, but Alfonso Cuarón’s 2006 dystopian film Children of Men has been hitting close to home now—almost twenty years after its screen debut. Set in London in 2027, a worldwide infertility epidemic has prevented any new births from occurring for eighteen years, and humankind faces extinction. Refugees stream into the police…
Many Catholics, on both sides of the political spectrum, continue to struggle with how to cast their votes in November. Some conservative Catholics struggle with the Republican Party’s changed platform and wonder if they can still vote for a Party that’s no longer pro-life. Some liberal Catholics struggle with the impact of excessive immigration on…
The conservative movement is ever in search of intellectual heroes from the past, those to whom we can point as examples to follow. Political conservatives vary in their choice of champions; Plato and Aristotle, Augustine and Aquinas, Burke and Hamilton appeal to different conservatives as thinkers that offer a blueprint for the politics of the…
