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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’…
A few months after we reported on Bishop’s Schneider’s new spiritual crusade for 2024, recently Cardinal Burke has launched his own initiative: a nine-month Novena imploring Our Lady of Guadalupe to deliver the Church. His effort immediately reminded me of the nine year novena of Poles against the Communists led by Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński back…
In Super Hanc Petram Fr Serafino Lanzetta studies with care the teachings of the present Pope, a task which all his admirers will agree is very laudable. Speaking for myself, one of the many doctrines of Pope Francis with which I fully agree is that “the reality is greater than the idea”. In this case,…
Almost five years ago, I visited an old friend and his family one weekend. As a bachelor, I have often found inspiration from my friends with large Catholic families. This time, I found more than I bargained for. While lying in bed to go to sleep the first night I was there, I felt something…
Last weekend we decided to take a trip across the border to Port Huron, Michigan, to do a bit of shopping. Like the majority of Canadians who make the same international trip in search of lower prices and cheap gas, we shopped at Hobby Lobby, Target, and T.J. Maxx. I may have stopped into Wild…
