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Rome can be hot during the summer. Blazing hot and breezy, a recipe for fire. Rome had recorded 6 great fires in its history. However, on 18 July of 64 AD, a fire started near the vast chariot area, the Circus Maximus. According to the ancient historian Tacitus (56-120), who was in Rome at the…
It has long been a commonplace in the Christian life—scriptural sanction for which can be found in 1 John 4:20—that unless we love the neighbor we see everywhere, it will not be possible to love the God we see nowhere. For unlike the neighbor whom we cannot escape, indeed, we find him at every turn,…
What do the great literary epics tell us about the epochs in which they were written? And, more importantly, what do these epics and epochs tell us about our own epoch? To what extent are literary epics the children of their own times, expressions of their own particular zeitgeist, and to what extent are they…
Dear OnePeterFive donor, supporters, and readers, We have reached the great feast of the Sacred Heart at the end of the Octave of Corpus Christi. Now we ask you send us your photos of your Sacred Heart month activities. This might be your processions or public devotions, and it might be your billboards or Sacred…
The Church of Rome is beset by many serious problems at this hour, but one of its chief ailments is that it is badly governed, to put it mildly. We are living through one of those times in history where the “successors” of a previous generation of rulers have failed miserably on many fronts. It…
June of 2024 is a strange time to be an American. While the war drums are beating for the coming election, and a show trial has convicted one of the likely contenders, the rainbow flags fly triumphantly in most of our cities and many of our towns as the badge of the current ruling class….
To little fanfare, the USCCB released its latest contribution to the interminable Synodal process in the form of a document called The National Synthesis of the People of God in the United States of America for the Interim Stage of the 2021-2024 Synod (the “Synthesis”). As its title suggests, the document is a flavorless and…
The divide in our Church between people who believe in the richness and the rightness of her theological tradition and those who do not is, in many ways, not an equal divide. The inequality should be a comfort to those who hold, as I do, that the casual dismissal of past customs and hard-won and…
Editor’s note: this is the original call for the Eucharistic crusade by Bishop Schneider from the year of the reign of Jesus Christ, MMXX, and this is the day which he calls every parish to embrace on the Octave day of Corpus Christi. The sins against the Blessed Sacrament and the need of a crusade…
Editor’s note: to promote the observance of the traditional Corpus Christi Octave as a part of our Crusade of Eucharistic Reparation, we will publish each day the Patristic readings from the Octave, as contained in pre-55 breviaries. The following readings and responsories come from the Roman office as promulgated after Trent in 1570. V. Grant,…
