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A well-known tactic in political circles is to release a “survey” that supports a predetermined conclusion. For example, a Republican PAC might send out a survey to its base asking “Do you think Joe Biden is right about the 2nd amendment?” Or the Democrats might ask if Trump is the next Hitler. Then the results…
We lose things during Lent. We are being pruned through sacred liturgical worship. Holy Church experiences liturgical death before the feast of the Resurrection. Music and flowers go first on Ash Wednesday, along with the word Alleluia. Today, statues and images are draped in purple. That is why today is sometimes called Repus Sunday, from…
Some of my conservative Irish-American friends, who cherish the old romantic myth of The Ould Sod as a place where 1950s culture and Catholicism reigned, in The Quiet Man and Bells of St. Mary’s harmony, ask: How could the Church in Ireland have “allowed” divorce/abortion/same sex marriage? And they assume the Faith is dead in…
Above: Emperor Karl as King Charles IV of Hungary taking his coronation oath in Budapest on 30 December 1916. To the left is Cardinal János Csernoch, Archbishop of Esztergom and Primate of Hungary. Editor’s note: our Patrons at OnePeterFive include a model cleric (St. Maximilian Kolbe) and a model layman (Bl. Emperor Karl) as a…
On March 11 Tucker Carlson released an interview with former CNN host Chris Cuomo. I admit, I listened to it, and I don’t usually listen to long-form interviews in the secular sphere; at least I haven’t in a while. Nonetheless, I had a bunch of menial computer tasks to do, so I took a listen…
We, as a culture, hate insults. We love to accuse people of “verbal abuse” or “hate speech.” Everyone should know better than to insult others. It would be best to completely eradicate insults from all social interactions whatsoever. Why shouldn’t we? Insults are belittling, rude, and may even hurt the feelings of others. All things…
Above: the Michigan city of Detroit, in which diocese Church Militant formerly operated. An announcement published in the National Catholic Register on March 2 and taken up by OnePeterFive informs us that the American Catholic platform called Church Militant will cease its operations in April 2024. This is mainly due to losing a lawsuit against…
There was a time, two centuries ago, when the Catholic Church was woefully weak in the Anglophone world. The British Empire was beginning to straddle the globe, spreading its creed of Enlightenment philosophy and utilitarianism. In the relatively young United States of America, the new nation was stamped with the Puritanism of many of its…
This month marks a critical juncture in the ongoing fight against abortion in the United States. As Walgreens and CVS begin dispensing mifepristone (Mifeprex ®) in many of their retail pharmacy locations—and before the Supreme Court considers reinstating restrictions on the same—we must pause to consider mifepristone’s brutal history and raise awareness of rapidly changing…
In the year of the reign of Jesus Christ 2021, way back in July when “Jailers of Tradition” first came out – almost three years ago at this point – the Holy Father summed up the lies he had imbibed against Trads when he said falsely that the desire for the ancient Roman Rite was…
