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This article is from One Peter Five As we know, the popes are infallible under certain conditions. According to Vatican II (repeating the teaching of Vatican I), the Roman Pontiff is infallible when, “as the supreme shepherd and teacher of all the faithful, who confirms his brethren in their faith, by a definitive act he [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Liturgical Living in the Home Recently, a young mom asked me how to incorporate all the beautiful feasts and seasons into family life. Now, as I believe this is quite a saintly ambition, it is also not without the potential for undue stress and setting oneself up for [...]

This article is from One Peter Five When I visit Rome, at least once during my time there I go to the Ara Pacis or “Altar of Peace” of the Emperor Augustus Caesar (+14), which is housed in dreadful building that looks like a gas station.  I don’t go in to see the actual altar.  [...]

This article is from One Peter Five The Glory of Paradise St. Benedict sums up the spiritual necessity of the Four Last Things in his chapter “What Are the Instruments of Good Works”: To have wholesome fear of the day of judgment. With fear to shrink from hell. To long for eternal life with all [...]

This article is from One Peter Five While the world has gone crazy over the latest insanity from the Vatican regime of Iconoclasm, and some Catholics are struggling with their faith and tempted to leave the Ark of Salvation (God forbid!), a new teaser trailer has been released for the movie about Sr. Wilhelmina: In [...]

Editor’s Note: You can read more about the “Norms and History of Fasting” in various articles written by Mr. Matthew Plese. It has been a long-standing requirement to observe Christmas Eve as a day of fasting and abstinence from meat. Christmas Eve remains part of the penitential season of Advent, which does not end until [...]

This article is from One Peter Five I recently heard a podcast stating “that Mary lacked knowledge of Christ’s divine nature at some point in her life after his birth.” I’ll let that sink in. This was based on the producer’s private interpretation of Lk. 8:19-21. If this sounds like a sour note in a [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Editor’s note: below is an unofficial English translation of the Communiqué of Patriarch Sviatoslav on the reception of the Declaration Fiducia supplicans, originally published on December 22, 2023 here. Kyiv Ref. MA 23/326 22 December 2023 of the year of our Lord Communiqué regarding the reception in the [...]

This article is from One Peter Five If you’re reading this, it means that most likely, you’re the kind of person who genuinely cares about what is good and decent and right, and no matter what the obstacles are, you want to see truth prevail. Since my fundraising appeal last week, we’ve doubled our progress [...]

An all-too-often accusation alleged against Catholics is the claim that the Catholic religion is a pharisaical religion centered around the observance of man-made rules and not on the worship of God in spirit and truth. How should a Catholic answer these claims? First, some background is necessary. Who Were the Pharisees? Father John Laux, in [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Hell Is Proof of Man’s Exalted Dignity The Offertory prayers speak of how God “wondrously endowed dignity to human nature.”[1] The eternity of Hell manifests the proof of this exalted dignity in two ways. The first is that man’s soul is immortal. The only time that God still [...]

This article is from One Peter Five We are pleased to announce that the articles of Matthew Plese on lost customs of Christendom have now been published as a book. Shortly after I took on the editorship here at OnePeterFive, I asked Plese to write this series which I believe to be fundamental to rebuilding [...]