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This article is from One Peter Five Above: Yevgeny Zamyatin by Boris Kustodiev (1923).   The creature is a perpetual question addressed to God. -Hans Urs von Balthasar The Twentieth Century posed the question of how to organize society. Russia, from the Tsarist centuries through the Soviet era and into post-Soviet times, has answered that [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Editor’s note: in light of the recent news that the Holy Father, after deposing Bishop Strickland, now allegedly intends to move against Cardinal Burke (again), we present this study in conjunction with Fr. Murray’s recent analysis of the Strickland case.  Father Charles Murray has excellently analyzed the canonical [...]

HAPPY FEAST DAY! A blessed feast of OUR LADY of the MIRACULOUS MEDAL to you. Note: The Rite of Blessing and Imposing the Miraculous Medal (in English) can be found LINKED HERE. On November 27, 1830, the Blessed Virgin appeared to St. Catherine Labouré in her Daughters of Charity convent in Paris, asking that a [...]

This article is from One Peter Five All good things come to their end other than the joy of Heaven.  Just so, this series ends with a dive into the Epistle reading for the 24th and Last Sunday after Pentecost, the final Sunday before the beginning of a new liturgical year with the 1st Sunday [...]

A question recently posed to The Fatima Center asked whether Catholics may swear an oath on a Protestant Bible. For instance, in a court of law, would a Catholic have to refuse the Protestant Bible and insist on swearing the oath only on the Vulgate or the Douay-Rheims or another approved Catholic Bible? What does [...]

This article is from One Peter Five The family unit is the foundation of a morally upright and virtuous society. However, the integral and well-ordered structure of the family is built upon more than secular means. The family is a holy framework of God’s sacramental love and a structural force against powers of evil. There [...]

The Fatima Center wishes you a blessed and happy Thanksgiving. An Autumn Festival Have you ever wondered why it’s traditional to eat turkey at Thanksgiving? It may surprise you to learn that its origins, like many other cultural customs, are found in Catholicism. Most Americans know the story about the Puritan Pilgrims who came aboard [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Last year was the first year for this conference, which, by all appearances, is the only Latin Mass Mens conference in North America. Since the restoration will happen when good men stop being effeminate, this conference is important for American Christendom. I went to the first one last [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Church Militant has released a statement that the board has asked Michael Voris to resign “for breaching the Church Militant morality clause.” Mr. Voris has released his own statement on Twitter in which he admits to avoiding his own past “ugliness,” and now he is repenting and stepping [...]

This article is from One Peter Five An Excerpt from Vladimir Solovyov, Russia and the Universal Church, trans. Rees (London: Centenary Press, 1948), 96-98.   It was not Simon’s apostleship that involved his change of name, for the change, though already predicted, was not made at the time of the choice and solemn sending forth [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Above: Vladimir Solovyov (1853-1900), Russia’s greatest philosopher.  I will never forget my encounter with Vladimir Solovyov over ten years ago. I was living in an apartment with my Russian Orthodox friend and a few others. I was Antiochian Orthodox but we were both hoping to become Orthodox monks. [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Above: portrait by Sebastiano del Piombo. Five centuries ago today, on November 18, 1523, after fifty days of conclave, “the most unfortunate of the Popes” was elected: Clement VII, whose original name was Giulio de’ Medici. Born in Florence 45 years earlier, in 1513 he was archbishop of [...]