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Above: the author pictured with Aaron Seng of Tradivox at the CIC Conference in 2024. Dear OnePeterFive donors, supporters and readers, I’m grateful for all of you. Your support made this whole apostolate possible, so that I first discovered OnePeterFive back in 2018 (the “summer of shame”) and started writing here in 2019 (here’s my…
In what has been the greatest political achievement for the LGBTQ+ movement, President-elect Donald Trump last week named hedge fund executive and former partner at Soros Fund Management Scott Bessent to be the United States’ next Secretary of the Treasury. Bessent, who is in a civil marriage to a gay man with whom he is…
One of Hollywood’s more sybaritic starlets solemnly announced the other day that she was embarking on a 30-day “spiritual cleanse” in India. Since neither ecumenism nor eco-enthusiasms are my métier, I was bewildered. Could it be some novel Gnostic excrescence? Or a twenty-first century variation of Stoic apatheia? Perhaps a new twist on commonplace pantheism?…
Dom Prosper Guéranger wrote in his The Liturgical Year: The whole world is in expectation of its Redeemer; come, dear Jesus, show Thyself to it by granting it salvation. The Church, Thy bride, is now commencing another year, and her first word is to Thee, a word which she speaks in the anxious solicitude of…
Editor’s note: we continue our weekly serialisation of Dr. Edward Schaefer’s new book A Simple Man’s Case for Tradition. This book is an excellent introduction to Traditionalism and provides an easy way for Trads to introduce the movement to fellow Catholics who are seeking deeper answers to today’s questions. Proceeds from the book sale also…
In an earlier essay in this series, we remarked how dispassionate or despondent observers at the beginning of the 19th century might have considered that the Catholic Church was terminally ill and on its deathbed. The previous century had seen the rise of despotic and absolutist monarchs who had usurped the rights of the Church…
A hundred years have passed since the world said goodbye to a man whose music had the power to stir hearts. On November 29, 1924, at 11:30 in Brussels, Giacomo Puccini passed away. The maestro from Tuscany died in the state of God’s grace, his final moments attended by Monsignor Clemente Micara († 1965), then…
Before Mass the other morning the priest, arrayed in blood red vestments, announced that he would be saying a Votive Mass in honor of the Apostle Peter, offered in thanksgiving to God for having given us so valiant a leader and saint. This was followed by an Entrance Antiphon I had not heard before, but…
[Editor’s Note: Today is the American holiday of Thanksgiving. While not an explicitly Catholic holiday, this day reminds us of the need to always express our gratitude to the Lord. The passage below is from Divine Intimacy by Father Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D (Baronius Press). Happy Thanksgiving!] Incapable as we are of paying…
Above: Christ Before the High Priest by Gerard van Honthorst (1617). Among the epochal books I have reread countless times over the past twenty years, a special place is occupied by Joseph Ratzinger’s famous post-doctoral dissertation, Die Geschichtstheologie des heiligen Bonaventura (1959). Translated into English in 1971 under the title The Theology of History in…
