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“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…
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…
