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The eyes of the Trad world were on Rome last week when the Holy Father received in audience several clerical heads of the priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, including Fr. Andrzej Komorowski, Superior General of the FSSP, Fr. Benoît Paul-Joseph, Superior of the District of France, and Fr. Vincent Ribeton, Rector of St. Peter’s Seminary…
Incidental to the Church’s teaching on Purgatory—a place not a few of us are likely to spend some time in—is the fact that if it did not exist it would surely have to be invented. Now how consoling is that? And do not take my word for it. It was our late pope Benedict XVI—who,…
Have you noticed that we are living in the Age of the Aged? Most of our ruling elite, from Joe Biden to Mitch McConnell, are in their 80s or near their 80s. What a reversal from the historical norm, in which the few individuals who survived into their 9th decade were content to be respected…
Above: a painting of Santiago Matamoros (St. James the Moor Slayer) by Juan Carreño de Miranda (1614-1685) The Pilgrimage of Nuestra Señora de la Cristiandad to Covadonga in Spain concluded last year on the eve of the Solemnity of St James the Greater, Apostle and Patron of Spain, celebrated the following day on Tuesday 25th…
One now finds it difficult to live without a smartphone. During a recent visit to a doctor’s office to procure a physical, the only way to complete my intake process was via my iPhone. Not long before that, I found myself incapable of purchasing food on a transcontinental flight because to do so required downloading…
We hardly know how to measure strong women anymore; modern feminism has so bent the rules. Feminism, once a virtuous philosophy worthy of St. Edith Stein and St. John Paul II, has become a cesspool that Catholics, women and men, instinctively avoid. So, is the tale of a particularly strong woman, Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini,…
With this Sunday we enter, already, into the second part of Lent. The 20th century liturgical writer Pius Parsch (+1954) puts it in The Church’s Year of Grace, during the first two weeks prepare against attacks by the Prince of this world, the Devil and fallen angels, with the weapon of mortifications. On this Sunday…
Ever since Kennedy Hall introduced me to the Liturgy of the Home calendars, my children have benefited from daily catechesis provided by the Harrison family. I have promoted this great work for families here on OnePeterFive more than once. Here’s the current calendar for Lent: Now the Harrison family have experienced a heavy cross as…
Taken to Troas, a port city located along the northern route through Asia Minor to the Aegean Sea—across which lies Europe and the final, fateful leg of the journey to Rome—St. Ignatius of Antioch will write three letters, the last of which was sent to the saintly bishop of Smyrna, Polycarp, numbered among the immortals…
In the waning days of Pope Francis’ pontificate, many are wondering: who are the likely candidates for the next papal election? This topic picks up steam from time to time and the intrigue around the changing of the papacy is not new to this pontificate (see this book published in 1995). The conversation about Francis’…
