This article is from One Peter Five Editor’s note: Today on the Commemoration of St. Paul we are pleased to promote this incredible new book by Fr Mawdsley. I had the privileged of reading an advanced copy of volume 1 and I was stunned by the immense light from the Holy Scriptures that is brought [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Above: nave of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome as painted by Panini, 1731. The glorious feast of St Peter and Paul is upon us and turns our thoughts to the Eternal City. O Rome, where all roads lead, how much art have you inspired? How much holiness? How [...]
This article is from One Peter Five The prohibition of the traditional Latin Mass is an abuse of ecclesiastical power and noncompliance with its prohibition does not in fact constitute disobedience Bishop Athanasius Schneider The traditional Roman liturgy of the Mass was the liturgy of our Catholic ancestors. It was the form of the [...]
This article is from One Peter Five The following fictional dialogue between hyperpapalist “Rockmeteller” (apologies to P.G. Wodehouse for stealing the name) and papal critic “Traddeus” is based on many real dialogues conducted online. It’s not intended to be systematic but to provoke thought about key issues (pun intended) that will only gain in importance [...]
This article is from One Peter Five We continue our project of delving, albeit briefly, into the first reading for Sunday’s Holy Mass in the Vetus Ordo of the Roman Rite, the Epistle, this time from the Apostle to the Gentiles’ Letter to the Romans. Reminder: the readings of Mass have their didactic purpose for [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Above: Cliffs of Moher, Lislorkan North, County Clare, Ireland Part 1: Erin’s Green Isle It is amazing how much of the American psyche is bound up with the nations of the British Isles – the traditional “Three Kingdoms” of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with Wales, Cornwall, the Isle [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Allegory of the Holy Eucharist by Mexican painter Miguel Cabrera (1695–1768) Today is a great feast which was instituted in modern times and enjoyed only a few generations of celebration before it was suppressed with other such feasts (along with the Octave of Corpus Christi) in the reforms of [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Above: Coptic iconography. The following is based on a real email exchange. Dear Dr. Kwasniewski, I am a convert to the Coptic Orthodox Church. I was born and raised a Novus Ordo Catholic, but only nominally so, and, as with the rest of my friends, Catholicism was [...]
This article is from One Peter Five As our series has shown, especially with the work of Miss Julia Meloni, it is clear to everyone who has eyes to see that “The Weapon of the St. Gallen Mafia is Synodality.” The “Synod on Synodality” is the plan of the Third Pornocracy in the Vatican to [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Four centuries ago, on June 19, 1623, in Clermont-Ferrand, town in south-central France, was born a man who, according to his sister Gilberte, “has always had an admirable clarity of mind for discerning what is false”: Blaise Pascal [† 1662].[1] About this mathematician, inventor, theologian, attentive explorer of [...]
This article is from One Peter Five We continue with our task of opening up something of the riches of the Epistle reading for Sunday’s Holy Mass in the Vetus Ordo, the tried and true Traditional Roman Rite which stengthen virtually all the Roman Church’s saints whom we now venerate. As always, we look at [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Ten years ago, a priest set out on an 8700 mile foot pilgrimage from central Europe to Jerusalem and back. I just recently re-watched the documentary he made about it, titled “Where God Dwells: A Eucharistic Meditation.” A beautiful film, simple yet completely professional, it’s near silence instills [...]