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It was a Friday night in the summer. The painters were not yet finished in the school. A drunk showed up at the door and I dispatched him. Then I got a phone call. Because the man calling was sobbing, it took me a while to understand what he was talking about. Someone had died…
Above: the 14th century Archcathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lviv. Editor’s note: On December 19, 2023, the Roman Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Ukraine published the following response to Fiducia supplicans on their official website here. Below is an unofficial English translation by OnePeterFive: Communiqué of the Ukrainian [Roman Catholic]…
Hell Is Proof of Man’s Exalted Dignity The Offertory prayers speak of how God “wondrously endowed dignity to human nature.”[1] The eternity of Hell manifests the proof of this exalted dignity in two ways. The first is that man’s soul is immortal. The only time that God still creates out of nothing is the creation…
Above: Archbishop Tomash Peta, Archbishop of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Saint Mary in the city of Astana, and the President of the Bishops’ Conference of Kazakhstan from May 19, 2003. Statement of the Archdiocese of Saint Mary in Astana regarding the Declaration “Fiducia supplicans”, published by the Dicastery of the Doctrine of Faith and approved by…
Early this year, a former BBC reporter named Hannah Barnes published a book called Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children. It describes the process by which an agency connected with the National Health Service in Great Britain went all in on the ideology of gender…
Last year, Christmas fell on a Sunday. I wrote about a controversy among some Protestants whether to schedule services that day because, while it was a Sunday, it was also Christmas. Some pastors claimed that when the two overlap, Protestant church attendance declines. Apparently, while Protestants may take the “Lord’s Day” seriously, there is a…
We are pleased to announce that the articles of Matthew Plese on lost customs of Christendom have now been published as a book. Shortly after I took on the editorship here at OnePeterFive, I asked Plese to write this series which I believe to be fundamental to rebuilding Christendom, because these are the things that…
Send down, ye heavens from above, your rain Let righteousness rain down on mortal plains Forget Thy wrath, O Lord, be not enraged And our iniquities remember not Forever, for behold a desert made Is our holy city, to us lost Sion Mount deserted is, and bare A barren waste upon a barren plain Jerusalem…
In this essay about the relationship between C. S. Lewis and Roy Campbell, the “bearded poet” whom Lewis lampoons in The Pilgrim’s Regress, we will chart their troubled and mercurial relationship, which lurched, sometimes violently, between enmity and friendship. In the period between their initial meeting in Oxford as undergraduates at the end of World…
Yesterday the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith under Cardinal Víctor Fernández, and with the approval of Pope Francis, released Fiducia Supplicans, which gives explicit approval for priests to impart a blessing on same-sex couples and couples in “irregular situations.” This declaration by the Vatican is another in a long line of shocking but…
