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This article is from One Peter Five Today we commemorate the 1650th anniversary of the blessed death, which took place on May 2, 373, of the bishop of the Catholic resistance to the Arian heresy, which at that time threatened faith in Christ: St. Athanasius of Alexandria. This great Father of the Church was born [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Dear OnePeterFive donors, supporters and readers, I might not need to remind you, dear reader—but still, it’s nice to think about: we are not even halfway through Easter. The Son is Risen, and the celebration has just begun. Curiously, however, we Catholics seem to prefer Lent. We [...]
This article is from One Peter Five As the weeks stretch into the Easter Season, we continue to look into the Epistle reading for Sunday’s Mass in the Vetus Ordo of the Roman Rite. This week we’ve come to the 3rd Sunday after Easter. It is the 4th Sunday of Easter in the calendar of [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Recently a well-known Italian writer (certainly no friend to Catholic Traditionalism), Fulvio Abbate, had this comment about one of our Trad forbears, who was born one hundred years ago today: It is impossible for me to adhere to the myth of Cristina Campo, whose birth is being honoured [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Above: Klaus Schwab with François Fillon, Prime Minister of the French Republic in 2008. Editor’s note: continuing from last week, we publish another lecture from the 2022 Roman Forum. To attend this summer’s symposium in Gardone, Italy, click here The “Great Reset” comes out of very long-term trends [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Dear Friend, Judging from what you say on social media, you seem to be in a theological and spiritual tailspin. Are you letting yourself get consumed with negativity? In the Church—as in the world at large—there is plenty of evil, no doubt about it, and therefore plenty [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Above: priest and school children on Rogation procession, c. 1950. The little boy is carrying a symbolic tree of plenty. Source: Hulton Archive/Getty Images. What are Rogation Days? Liturgies.net summarizes these forgotten elements of our Catholic heritage as follows: Rogation Days are the four days set apart [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Our task this year is to give attention to the Epistle, the first reading for Sunday’s Holy Mass in the Vetus Ordo. We try to include some context to enrich our contact with Christ in the reading and make some branching connections. Let’s start with a connection. Our [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Above: “Joachim of Fiore shows the portraits of Saint Dominic de Guzmán and Saint Francis of Assisi” by American Baroque painter Gregorio Vásquez (1638–1711) of New Granada, modern Colombia. Editor’s note: we publish here the first lecture from Dr. Rao at last summer’s symposium of the Roman Forum. [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Above: the Catholic Church known as Die Wotrubakirche in Vienna. Photo by Stefano Perego. Cardinals Arthur Roche and Raniero Cantalamessa indirectly acknowledged (perhaps unintentionally) what critics of Paul VI’s Novus Ordo Missae have said for over fifty years: The new rite corresponds to a new theology that [...]
This article is from One Peter Five Roger Buck, the author of a pair of charming books featuring a character called “The Gentle Traditionalist” (see here, here, and here), runs a YouTube channel on which may be found a (to my mind) classic episode called “(Catholic) Nectar in a Sieve.” He uses the metaphor of [...]