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This article is from One Peter Five I must keep this brief today… briefer.   I hear loud shouts of joy even through my monitor.  In short, “life happened” in the last couple of days.  Thus, my lateness and brevity.  Though it doesn’t make too much difference if you get this before or after Mass.  It [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Above: The Love Song by Norman Rockwell (1926) The word “Schmaltz” is an intriguing one – and well-worth our meditation, as we venture through the Christmas season, and on at last to St. Valentine’s Day (which is also Ash Wednesday this year), as well as Washington and Lincoln’s birthdays. In [...]

Basics of the Biretta   The biretta is a square cap with three or four peaks or horns, worn by clergy in the Church. The biretta has a stiff board on the top with three or four points, and it is often adorned with a tuft or pom-pom at the center. Bishops typically wear a [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Praised be Jesus Christ! Dear faithful Catholics, especially those who suffer as they witness our Holy Mother Church live through an unprecedented crisis. Dear Catholic fathers and mothers of families! Dear Catholic young people! Dear innocent Catholic children! And especially dear religious contemplative Sisters, the spiritual gems of [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Editor’s note: with the latest scandal against the Faith from the Roman Pontiff himself, we recall how Scalfari reported that the Pope did not believe in the dogma of hell, and the Vatican’s failure to condemn this heresy in a political newspeak non-answer. This latest scandal seems to [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Part I The Third Pornocracy: the Current Crisis in the Church Part II Pornocracy and the Coming Reign of Antichrist   One of the greatest parts of the Summa, or at least my favorite, is when St. Thomas considers the best argument against the existence of God: Objection [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Read part I The Third Pornocracy: the Current Crisis in the Church The term “pornocracy” is brutally grotesque, and yet it is honest. It is helpful, I believe, because the term truly describes the reality of how bad the corruption is. But it also reminds us that the [...]

This article is from One Peter Five It seems as if, once Christmas has passed – BAM! – it’s over.  Trees are at the curb, decorations come down, music on the radio goes back to whatever it was.  However, Holy Church gives us an Octave to rest within the feast of the Nativity itself and [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Three hundred and fifty years ago, on January 12, 1674, one of the greatest Italian composers of the 17th century, or rather “the Master of Musical Europe,” suddenly died in Rome: Giacomo Carissimi. The Jesuit Athanasius Kircher, a scientist and theologian who taught at the Roman College (the [...]

The Catholic Church Codified the Books in the Bible One of the early Church councils that addressed the issue of the canon of Scripture was the Council of Carthage in 397 AD. This council produced a canon[1] that included the 27 books of the New Testament widely accepted today. In 405 A.D., in a letter [...]

This article is from One Peter Five One of the expressions we hear most in recent years is “pastoral.” “Pastoral reasons” are used to justify some initiatives in the ecclesial sphere, as we have seen in Fiducia supplicans. “Pastoral motifs” are also behind many changes in liturgy and sacred music. It almost seems that pastoral [...]

This article is from One Peter Five “…And what do you do with a liberal arts degree?” is something anyone who has attended or works at a small school like Wyoming Catholic College or Thomas Aquinas College is used to hearing. When someone asks: “what is your major?” you usually know that “liberal arts” won’t [...]