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This article is from One Peter Five This penultimate Sunday of the Liturgical Year brings us a pericope from Paul’s 1st Letter to the Thessalonians 1:2-10.   Paul’s Letter could be one of his earliest, along with Galatians.  Some scholars think it could be the earliest section of the New Testament. Thessalonica is in modern Greece.  Paul [...]

An unfortunate slander sometimes hurled against Traditional Roman Catholics who keep the 1962 Liturgical Calendar (or the ones previous) is that they are not keeping the same calendar which Christ’s Church on earth keeps. The claim that the Novus Ordo’s 1969 Calendar (with subsequent modifications since then) is the only calendar which all Catholics must follow [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Editor’s note: before the Synod on Synodality, the women at RestoreTradition.com released a statement on the Synod that has now gained over 2,500 signatures from Catholic women. For female readers, click here to read and sign this statement. This followed shortly after their second annual conference, detailed below. [...]

This article is from One Peter Five A few decades ago, Dr. Alice von Hildebrand refuted the arguments of heretics to “ordain” women to the priesthood in her anti-Feminist writings like Women & the Priesthood and The Privilege of Being a Woman. This year is centenary of her birth in 1923. The Hildebrand Project has [...]

This article is from One Peter Five “The one charge which is now sure to secure severe punishment is the careful keeping of the traditions of the Fathers.” These words of St. Basil (Ep. 243) can most aptly illustrate the deposition of the Bishop of Tyler, TX/USA, His Excellency Joseph E. Strickland. The deposition of [...]

Written By Miriam Gruner Co-Sponsoring an International Catholic Conference The Fatima Center was a sponsor of the Rome Life Forum Conference organized by LifeSiteNews. This conference was a 2-day strategy session held immediately after the Vatican’s “Synod on Synodality,” which, among other evils, threatens to formalize heretical teachings on the family and on the Church. [...]

This article is from One Peter Five News broke this morning that the stalwart man of God, Bishop Strickland of Tyler Texas was removed from his diocese. The official announcement was terse: The Holy Father has removed Bishop Joseph E. Strickland from the pastoral care of the diocese of Tyler, United States of America, and [...]

This article is from One Peter Five As we approach the end of the liturgical year, an odd thing happens in the Church’s traditional calendar for the Vetus Ordo. The Sundays left over after Epiphany are finally dusted off, “resumed”, and prayed until the liturgical year is concluded.  This is because of the vagaries of the Moon [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Editor’s note: what follows is the official English text from His Eminence. Original address delivered in Italian here: Presentation of “Credo: Compendium of the Catholic Faith” Robert Cardinal Sarah, Prefect emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments Rome, Thursday, 26 October 2023 [...]

Editor’s Note: Readers are also encouraged to view an episode of Ask Father with Fr. Albert Kalio which addressed this same question. Also, Crucifixion to Creation, a book by Father James Mawdsley, is an excellent resource for understanding the Old and New Testament roots of the Mass. What Is the Mass? “If we really understood [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Pope Francis stays on message with the release of his latest motu propio entitled Ad Theologiam Promovendam (“to promote theology”), continuing his refrain that the Church needs to reach the peripheries.  Maintaining this as his primary mission is unobjectionable as Christ called all sinners, tax collectors and prostitutes, [...]

A Question Recently Received Q: I was recently talking about the evils of the Ouija board and had a flashback to when I was young. I remember my sister and I were at a friend’s house and they were playing with a Ouija board. We did not play with it, but we were there. Is [...]