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In a statement posted on his website in Italian, the modern Confessor of the Faith, Cardinal Zen, has asserted that Tucho “Heal Me With Your Mouth” Fernández would be very happy if the SSPX were excommunicated, since His Eminence, head of the Office Formerly Known as Holy, “intends to dismantle the traditions of the Church”…
The Roman Station for the Third Sunday of Lent is the Minor Papal Basilica of St. Lawrence outside-the-walls, San Lorenzo fuori le Mura. The Station is often the crowbar by which we pry open the Mass formulary. If we attend to place, structure, memory, and rite, the somewhat intricate Gospel from Luke 11 begins to…
As readers of OnePeterFive are well aware, the SSPX has now been threatened with excommunication. The superior general has rejected the offer of dialogue in exchange for cancelling their planned consecrations. The Society issued a document explaining why, from their point of view, consecrating bishops without permission of the Pope would not make them schismatics…
During the summer of 2025, I had the idea that I wanted to visit the graves of all the priests who have served in the Diocese of Green Bay. I had visited a considerable number—but in comparison to the total number, not many at all. My quest began with visiting the graves of my pastor…
No conversation about the SSPX is complete without the word “obedience” being thrown around. And, in all fairness, the nature of obedience is really at the heart of the matter, so this makes sense. However, in the context of these conversations, the notion of obedience seems to frequently take on a character that exalts this…
Over the years, I have often surprised my students or friends with an unexpected question: “What is philosophy?” In this way, I have managed to find out, to some extent, what educated people think about the nature of philosophy. The answers I received allowed me to distinguish three categories, which, though different, share a common…
Predictions that generative AI will eliminate tens of millions of jobs are scary enough. Behind the normal anxiety about the future of work is an even deeper fear: that this new technology will make human beings less necessary. But this fear rests on the mistaken assumption that resources are fixed and that we are all…
As Lent of 2026 goes on, Europe, the Mother Continent, is actually at war—not on one but at least four different fronts. There is, of course, the actual shooting war in Ukraine, which has gone on for four years in its current form and almost eleven in terms of guerilla fighting. This pits Russia against…
This article is not for the squeamish. A haunting video of a former Chinese doctor describes how he was ordered to extract the eyes of a prisoner. Filled with terror, the eyes were moving. The prisoner was alive. The event happened years ago. But the doctor in the video, recounting the story, was sobbing and…
“I love you, brother.” That’s how Paul Thigpen would always end his time with me, whether at a restaurant for lunch in northern Georgia or after one of our periodic 30-minute phone calls. As noted by a priest (one of 12!) who concelebrated his March 2 funeral Mass, Paul was a warm, ever-gracious man, one…
