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This article is from One Peter Five Send down, ye heavens from above, your rain Let righteousness rain down on mortal plains Forget Thy wrath, O Lord, be not enraged And our iniquities remember not Forever, for behold a desert made Is our holy city, to us lost Sion Mount deserted is, and bare A [...]

This article is from One Peter Five This year, the Christmas season – whether one charts it from the first decorations going up in the stores before Halloween, and ending on December 26; keeps Advent religiously, beginning Christmas only with Midnight Mass and prolonging through the Twelve Days and in some sense to Candlemas on [...]

This article is from One Peter Five This lovely liturgical season of Advent is more than a sentimental journey to the side of the manger with an ox and an ass and some straw strewn around for ambience.  We Christians fast before our feasts with vigils and with whole seasons.  Advent, dressed in violet and [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Credo, the new catechism by Bishop Schneider, will be the textbook for one of two new courses at Mary, Queen of the Home Academy, a new online Trad homeschool program designed for 11th and 12th graders. The program brings together the Avila Institute and Meaning of Catholic and [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Probably everyone reading this knows by now that Pope Francis has been very tough on Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, removing him from his see without due canonical process. The main reason, it seems, is that Strickland has outspokenly criticized the constant stream of doctrinal and disciplinary [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Last week I appealed to you to help us raise the $60,000 we need for this Christmas season, one of two times each year when we invite the financial support of our loyal readers to help us cover our expenses. I’m sorry to report we did not come [...]

Miracles can be separated into four categories: bodily miracles, intellectual miracles (e.g., prophecies), moral miracles, and social miracles.[1] All of these miracles unreservedly are found in the Catholic Church and can prove, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that the Catholic Church alone is the one true Church. Regarding the social miracles, in particular, the [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Timothy Flanders: Thank you for speaking with me, Dr. Foley. Our readers may recognise you from the Mass of the Ages documentary. Were you raised in the Latin Mass or did you encounter it later? Tell us about that. Michael Foley: I came upon the Latin Mass by [...]

This article is from One Peter Five By Julian Kwasniewski As Christmas shopping season is upon us, I would like to draw readers attention to ten Catholic titles generally falling under the categories of adventure literature, spirituality, and philosophy. For literarily inclined gifters, I hope that this can be the start of a fruitful booking [...]

This article is from One Peter Five “This book proved timely and necessary. There are so many questions and so much room for confusion in today’s situation. Embracing the steadfast hope of Mary on that first Saturday gives me a great solid foundation to stand on. Being able to see our history laid out so [...]

This article is from One Peter Five The season of Advent and Christmas has always been one of the most intense moments of the liturgical year, as we remember the Incarnation of the Son of God who comes to save us. A beautiful testimony is that offered by the Bishop Emeritus of Hong Kong, Cardinal [...]

This article is from One Peter Five We might be tempted to ask rhetorically if there was ever a time in the Church when divisions in factions, disagreements between groups was ever so bad as now? On the 2nd Sunday of Advent we hear from Paul’s letter to the Romans. There had been sizeable Jewish [...]