This article is from One Peter Five Above: the “carefully crafted spirituality itinerary” graphically depicted from the WYD website. After a brief hiatus due to “COVID” (which I prefer to pronounce by its traditional spelling, communism) the World Youth Day (WYD) is back! This year it is taking place in Lisbon, Portugal and the opening [...]
This article is from One Peter Five The following article is adapted from a larger document co-authored by Peter Kwasniewski, Izabella Parowicz, Joseph Shaw, and Piotr Stec, defending the proposition that the Traditional Latin Mass counts as a supreme example of intangible cultural heritage that deserves international recognition and legal protection. Those who wish to [...]
This article is from One Peter Five “We don’t want to convert these young people to Jesus Christ.” You remember these insane words uttered by the newly-named-Cardinal Américo Aguiar a few weeks back ahead of the World Youth Day in Lisbon, which he is leading, going on now. These words of Antichrist made such waves [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Edward Feser and the “Suspended Magisterium” A few weeks ago Dr. Edward Feser wrote a piece reflecting on the recent appointment of Tucho “Heal Me with your Mouth” Fernández to the Dicastery for the Destruction of the Faith. In it, he quotes Newman’s comments about the Arian crisis: [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Above: Feb. 2, 2023: Pope Francis in South Sudan. Vatican Media. One of the greatest saints in Catholic history is considered to be Saint Ignatius of Loyola, whom the Catholic Church celebrates today, on July 31st. This is rightly said, not only for the greatness of Saint Ignatius [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Above: St. Francis Church at the Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi, also titled “His Holiness Francis Church” in the official inscription (see below). Official website. Opening of the “Abrahamic Family House” Four years after Pope Francis signed the Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living [...]
This article is from One Peter Five For the 9th Sunday after Pentecost, we hear in the Vetus Ordo a reading from 1 Corinthians. Paul is correcting the behavior of the Corinthians using, in this chapter, examples from the history of Israel, moments when God sent punishments to correct the people who had gone astray [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Other articles in this series: The Art of Dress – Two Schools of Thought The Art of Dress – Problems with Normalcy The Art of Dress – Learning from the Valiant Woman On a sunny April day my freshman year of college, I yearned to wear a [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Above: The Ecstasy of Saint Francis of Assisi by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617–1682) This series of articles is the product of one interest and one concern. My interest, as a student of philosophy, is to serve a wider Catholic audience by demystifying philosophical schools and ‘isms’ that are [...]
This article is from One Peter Five I’m a second generation Trad, no doubt about it. I can’t really remember the pontificate of Benedict XVI—by the time I was actually paying attention to my faith in a more serious way in high school, Francis’s pontificate had already begun. I have one indistinct memory associated with [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Above: inside the church of St. Barnabas the Apostle. Parish Website. In 2013, St. Barnabas the Apostle Parish in O’Fallon, MO—about 40 minutes outside of St. Louis—was dying. The pastor, Fr. Ray Hager, was told that the parish would be closed in about five years unless things turned [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Above: Benedict XVI’s personal secretary Archbishop Georg Gänswein kisses the former pope’s closed coffin during a private ceremony in St. Peter’s Basilica on Jan. 4, 2023. Vatican Media. Last week a number of interesting commentaries appeared from unexpected quarters. Two in particular noted the speed with which His [...]