This article is from One Peter Five Above: rainforest near Balok, Malaysia. The First Article of the Creed Complicated debates about creation rage. One hears competing claims about how God created the universe: “Young earth!” “Theistic evolution!” “Intelligent design!” Others reject creation outright and intone, “Evolution, evolution, evolution!” or simply claim, “It does not matter [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Context is important. We’ve been over the ground we tread before, regard the liturgical season and the Letter Paul wrote to the Romans. However, here is something from dom Prosper Guéranger about the flow this time of year: It is to the Romans that are addressed today’s inspired [...]
This article is from One Peter Five I sometimes brag to other Catholics that I know the size of pants worn by the notable Theology of the Body speaker Christopher West. If you’re still reading, allow me to reminisce on simpler times… I–or a much younger version of myself–am at a Theology of the Body [...]
This article is from One Peter Five The magisterium is a topic of great interest and grave importance for traditionalists today. The editorial stance that OnePeterFive has adopted, with which I am in full agreement, is one that strives to strike a balance between the excessive adulation of the magisterium typical of the hyperpapalists and [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Four centuries ago, on July 4, 1623, the greatest of English polyphonists, an “obstinate papist” during the reign of Elizabeth I (excommunicated and deposed by Pope St. Pius V in 1570), died in Stondon Massey, Essex, England: William Byrd. It is moving to read his will, in which [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Independence Day is once more upon us, and with it, all that we love about the Fourth. While the wondrous fireworks that private citizens used to let loose with to express their freedom are a thing of the past in most places (although one remembers with civic pride [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Dear OnePeterFive donors, supporters, and readers, I’m pleased to announce that magisterial theologian Dr. John Joy is joining the editorial staff of OnePeterFive. I got to know his work when he appeared on a few YouTube channels and I realised that with our other theologian contributing editor, [...]
This article is from One Peter Five In 2018, we hadn’t a clue who Sr. Wilhelmina was, but we were told to find her. Little did we know how grateful we would be for that short, grace-filled meeting. October 2018 was memorable for our family in many ways, my mother had just died (a Jew [...]
This article is from One Peter Five The Holy Office is no more. His Holiness has laid the final nail in its coffin. And so it passes like the many other great institutions of Christian Romanitas after the Council. After Pope Francis. When the Protestant heretics tore apart Europe and Christendom, the Vatican created the [...]
This article is from One Peter Five The Crucifixion by Andreas Pavias (1440-1504/1512) July is traditionally devoted to the Most Precious Blood. Not long ago, on the eve of the Second Vatican Council, in a succinct apostolic letter that rewards prayerful study, Pope St. John XXIII exhorted the faithful to fervently cultivate this devotion, which [...]
This article is from One Peter Five The Traditional Movement has changed quite drastically over the past five decades. What began with small pockets of fearless individuals seeking to preserve the Latin Mass across the world with slow organic growth has dramatically developed into a large movement of pilgrims who seek to share the Truth [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Our journey through the liturgical year in the Vetus Ordo continues this week with out look into the Epistle reading for Holy Mass on the 5th Sunday after Pentecost. For the last weeks we have been giving strong images of Christ as, for example, Good Shepherd. In a [...]