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The word “prudent” gets thrown around a lot, and it is often misused. Recently, a friend posed a question to me about the prudence of the forthcoming SSPX consecrations, and it was not the first time I had been asked. There are, of course, many people who are sympathetic to the Society of St. Pius…
Everyone knows the grim reality. According to the Congressional Budget Office, America’s top 1 percent owns 30.5 percent of the country’s wealth, and the bottom 50 percent owns 3.5 percent. In other words, the top 1 percent owns around 10 times the wealth of the bottom half. And it doesn’t get much better after that….
It is not easy to write a successful novel about a parish that operates under the aegis of Summorum Pontificum—but all the time is expected, by the chancery, to fail. There is the temptation to write too much on the liturgy instead of focusing on the normal folks who love that liturgy yet don’t particularly…
I recently watched an interview with actor Shia LaBeouf that a friend tipped me off to. For the record, I didn’t make it very far into the interview, which was recorded the day after LaBeouf was released from jail on bail for a drunken physical altercation at a bar in New Orleans during Mardi Gras….
Editor’s note: thirteen years ago today, I received Holy Communion for the first time as a Roman Catholic. My journey from Protestantism to Eastern Orthodoxy to Rome is detailed in my forthcoming book published by St. Paul Center. I offer this article again in thanksgiving for God’s grace and thirteen years a member of the…
I confess that I sometimes allow myself to be deceived. When things are going well professionally, when election results go the way I hoped, when I seem to be getting along with everyone I know—I can be disarmed into thinking that I am at peace with the world. Then, like a thunderclap, I’m jolted back…
The recent election in Hungary which unseated longtime Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has rung alarms throughout European and American conservative circles. As Prime Minister since 2010, Orbán had made his country a seeming refuge of decency in a continent whose national (in most countries) and EU leadership appear bound and determined to replace their native…
Our Catholic moral tradition has always recognized a hierarchy of moral gravity. Not all wrongs are the same. We know this instinctively. Some are the result of human weakness and flawed speech; others are embedded in law and social structures. The latter serves to shape the moral landscape of entire societies. When those distinctions collapse,…
You may have heard the rumors recently that, should the Society of St. Pius X go through with consecrating new bishops in July, the Vatican plans to excommunicate not only the bishops involved, but every single priest of that society as well. You may also know that the leaders of the Society of St. Pius…
Dear OnePeterFive reader, Join the Pope St. Pius V Campaign with a donation today! God is not abandoning us in the midst of this crisis and confusion. He is drawing many to His Sacred Heart, as the broader culture strays further and further from the groundings of morality. The desire for clarity, security, and beauty…
