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In Wake Up Dead Man, the current installment of an ongoing murder mystery series called Knives Out, starring Daniel Craig as the cynical Inspector Benoit Blanc, the body of a murdered monsignor turns up in a parish church in upstate New York. Suspicion soon falls upon the young curate, Fr. Jud, who, it turns out,…
G.K. Chesterton said, “When you break the big laws, you do not get freedom, you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.” And so we have the continuing melodrama in the Diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina. Here’s the situation: Bishop Michael Martin of Charlotte, in his zeal to implement Traditionis Custodes, has…
OnePeterFive Podcast The SSPX Confronts Rome: the Consecrations are Scheduled for July 1 00:00 / 00:24:00 Author’s note: I dedicate these words to my editor… Source Read More
A decade after the Supreme Court legalized same‑sex marriage in Obergefell, advocates in Ohio—the state where the case first took shape—are sounding the alarm. They warn that marriage equality is far less secure than it looks, and the ground beneath it is already shifting. That’s why they are now moving to lock protections into the…
A recent New York Times opinion piece laments that “Americans Are Turning Against Gay People,” warning of a supposed slide back into the moral dark ages. But this interpretation misunderstands the spirit of the age, especially among Generation Z, where the shift reflects a resistance to an aggressive and demanding cultural regime. The two authors,…
We stand now nine Sundays out from Easter, poised at a hinge in the liturgical year where memory, expectation, and discipline converge. Context is decisive. The Church does not move through time as a mere sequence of dates but as a pedagogy of salvation, a slow schooling of the soul by repetition, anticipation, and restraint….
Above: Peleș Castle, built by the Catholic King Carol I of Romania 1873-1914. The series on the “Trad Movement” proposed by Mr. Timothy Flanders inspired me to write a few articles about authors who should be included on the list of mandatory readings. Hopefully, these articles will be released in the near future. Until then,…
Earlier this month, in his State of the World address to ambassadors, Pope Leo XIV warned that “a new Orwellian-style language is developing.” He added that “freedom of speech and expression is guaranteed precisely by the certainty of language and the fact that every term is anchored in the truth.” The pope’s placing of the…
A few years back, perhaps you remember, OnePeterFive had comments. But eventually we got so many filthy comments – pornographic, blasphemous, and (even worse than those two) Christians committing the mortal sin of reviling – we shut the whole thing down. Now OnePeterFive operates without comments, and I’m grateful for that. If you want to…
Above: a folk mass. I was born the day John F. Kennedy was elected – November 8, 1960. In many ways, this was the apogee of Americanist Catholicism of the kind sponsored by Archbishop John Carrol, Fr. Isaac Hecker, Archbishop John Ireland, and James Cardinal Gibbons. Eschewing evangelisation of the United States in return for…
