This article is from One Peter Five Above: Vatican City – October 28, 2015. Pope Francis meets with an interfaith audience. © L’Osservatore Romano. In 1960, Ida Friederike Görres asked, “Is not the secret crisis of so many fellow believers, often hardly conscious, that they can no longer think of the past and the future [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Prayer for the Triumph of the Catholic Faith Almighty and eternal God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, we kneel before Your Majesty, and thank You from the depth of our soul for the inestimable gift of the Catholic Faith, which you have deigned to reveal to us through [...]
This article is from One Peter Five We continue with this year’s focus on the Epistle, the first reading, in the Vetus Ordo of the Roman Rite. This week we hear from St. Paul in 1 Cor. 15:1-10. Context remains important. Last Sunday we observed the Feast of the Transfiguration, which has its own proper [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Above: Sermon on the Deeds of the Antichrist by Luca Signorelli (1450–1523). We know from René Girard, and personal and historical experience interpreted through an honest lens, that if one is not under complete obedience to Christ, one is under obedience to Satan in one idolatrous form or [...]
This article is from One Peter Five At age eleven, I dreamed of one day becoming a Barbie doll designer. Swept off my feet by images of Bob Mackie Barbies I found in books at the library, I decided nothing could be more delightful than sketching my own designs of my favorite toy—what her hair [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Above: John Paul II at World Youth Day Denver, 1993. You hear the word “culture” thrown around a lot these days. However, I would like to hazard that most of the time this word is misused. Typically when people use the term “culture” they are referring to “general [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Finding Abraham’s Gift Roads don’t always go in the direction we think they will. This is true metaphorically and literally. But unexpected turns when driving a car are usually easier to deal with than unexpected turns in our lives. For one thing, they take a matter of minutes, [...]
This article is from One Peter Five In the first installment of this series on the Traditional Theology of the Magisterium, we began by defining some of our key terms. With that preliminary step out of the way, we can begin our theological investigation properly speaking by turning to the sources of divine revelation—Sacred Scripture [...]
This article is from One Peter Five The Church’s Liturgical Year is a harmonious interplay of feasts and fasts interwoven in both the temporal and sanctoral cycles that define the rhythm and rhyme of Catholic life. While there are many customs associated with the seasons of the liturgical year and high ranking feast days, the [...]
This article is from One Peter Five This Sunday we observe the Feast of the Transfiguration rather than the “green” Sunday after Pentecost, being the 10th. This Feast of the Transfiguration has a complicated history. First, in Rome there were celebrated on 6 August the feast of the martyrs Pope Sixtus II and six of [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Above: Baggy Point, Moor Lane, Croyde, Braunton, UK. Journey through the Three Kingdoms, pt. I: Ireland Journey through the Three Kingdoms, pt. II: England If Ireland is the spiritual home of many of the Catholics and Orangemen scattered around the Anglosphere, the next Kingdom, England, is surely still [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Above: Patronal Festivity in Saint Louis, Missouri, 2022 Catholics of St. Louis, Missouri, are preparing once again for the celebration of their city’s patron, Louis IX, King of France. They welcome pilgrims from the world over to the 4th Annual Festival of Saint Louis which will feature special guests, Peter [...]