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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…
America is a fascinating country to watch from a political perspective as an outsider. Not only is the political arena in America filled with drama and intrigue, but it is also filled with notable and often very noble zeal and principled action. I am not American, but given Canada’s proximity to the US and the…
Above: Virgin and Child with St. Anne by Leonardo da Vinci. What we know about the Blessed Virgin Mary’s parents, Saints Joachim and Anne, comes from Protoevangelium Jacobi (The Gospel of James). It is not part of the inerrant Word of God, but the document, which was written c. 170 AD gives insight into the…
Anthony Trollope, the Victorian novelist, was an amateur classicist of some competency and a man whose sympathies were capable of crossing centuries. He wrote a two-volume Life of Cicero that was really a defense of the Roman author. Too many of his contemporaries were critical of Cicero, holding him to a standard of perfect consistency…
At this point in the history of the Church, some of us might feel numb to the idea of homosexuality inside the Church. It seems like every other day we have some gay seminarian, priest, or bishop come out of the closet with glitter and makeup on their faces. To say that these are “concerning…
Above: photo by the author who went on this pilgrimage last year. Read his report here. Pilgrimage website. An ominous sign indicating the credibility of the reports that discuss a further suppression of the Apostolic Roman Rite by the Roman Curia of “Mercy” was the recent announcement by the Vatican prohibiting the celebration of the…
Recently, on my favorite podcast, two priests I respect lamented that the National Eucharistic Congress’ main accomplishment seemed to be the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage. They love a good Eucharistic procession, they said, but processions are for the devout. After three years, and at a cost of many millions, was this the best the bishops could…
