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Last week, I visited with a friend from the U.S. who told me a story about something he witnessed at his parish as a child. At a parish on the Northeastern Shore in the late ’80s, he remembered that the priest had, for years, used pumpernickel bread and white zinfandel for Holy Communion. And, as…
The pope holds a unique position in all the world. No other existing religious or civic government has a leader of an office that has lasted for two thousand years like the Chair of St. Peter. No other religious leader represents over one billion people in a successive role founded by Jesus Christ Himself. What…
Dear OnePeterFive donors, supporters and readers, As Sacred Heart month climaxes with the great Triduum of the Holy Apostles and First Vespers of the Precious Blood, let us give thanks to God for the grace inspiring Catholics to celebrate this month for what it is. Thank you for all who submitted your photos. Let’s all…
I’ve been publicly talking about the Catholic Faith for more than two decades. I’ve done this informally on a one-on-one basis as well as formally at parish and diocesan events. For the longest time I followed the primary rule established among public Catholics: Above all, be nice. Of course, the Nice Rule is not presented…
Amid swirling rumors of another Vatican crackdown, the organizers of Missae pro Missa (“Masses for the Mass”) have announced a second worldwide spiritual bouquet for the preservation of the Traditional Latin Mass. Similar to the first campaign launched for Lent 2023, there are four ways to participate: Please submit your spiritual offerings via the website…
On June 27, 1574, in Florence, one of the greatest figures of the Italian Renaissance passed away: Giorgio Vasari, an architect, painter, and Italian art historian. Born in 1511 in Arezzo, Giorgio Vasari was deeply influenced by the works of Michelangelo († 1564), Andrea del Sarto († 1531), and the early manifestations of Mannerism. In…
Why did the most successful authors of detective stories opt for chaste sleuths? In the analogous literary genre of espionage, after all (to say nothing of political thrillers), spies rely on promiscuity to extract information, don’t they? Would one ever imagine James Bond altogether chaste, successful, and popular?1 And yet, such are precisely the recurrent…
Fifty years ago, confusion appeared to reign supreme in the Catholic Church. Infected, so it seemed, by the radical relativism and “hippydom” of the 1960s, many powerful figures in the Church seemed to have replaced the Holy Spirit with the Spirit of the Age. One manifestation of this modernist madness was the abandonment of beauty….
Credible rumors shared by Rorate Caeli about a renewed crackdown on the Roman Rite, coinciding with the third anniversary of Traditionis Custodes, have prompted an interesting debate on what sort of trick the Vatican may have up its sleeve and how, in turn, individual dioceses and Traditional Latin Mass communities will play their hand. In…
When I was seven, my parents brought home a painting and hung it above the fireplace. They summoned my brother and me into the living room, and we looked at the painting up close. In front of us was a collection of squares in muted and faint purples, pinks, blues, and grays. My parents then…
