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A Brief Reflection Today is the Feast of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary.  On this great and sorrowful Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, let us listen to St. Alphonsus Liguori, Doctor of the Church (1696-1787).  May his words move us to console our Blessed Mother in Her indescribable sufferings; may his [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Tucho “Heal Me with Your Mouth” Fernández has given a new interview to the stalwart veteran journalist, Edward Pentin, in which it is appears that the ideology of hyperüberultramontanist dictatorship is expounded. Here we seem to see the false theology which underscores the gas lighting of a listening [...]

St. Thomas Aquinas states in the Summa Theologica Part 2-2, Question 124, Article 3 that martyrdom[1] is necessary for salvation for some. Martyrdom is the supreme testimony of faith, a witness to truth, a participation in Christ’s Passion, a means of purification, and a source of extraordinary grace. We see this exhibited in the lives [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Above: Alessandro Manzoni (1785 – 1873). In trying to preserve the traditions of Catholicism and indeed the entirety of Western Civilization, literary fiction is an incredibly useful tool. Fiction allows us to articulate truths about reality and the human condition without simply stating them in so many words. [...]

Though the three shepherd children of Fatima were not present at the Cova da Iria on August 13, 1917 when about 20,000 people gathered to await the arrival of Our Lady, there occurred – at the customary time – the same supernatural manifestations observed by a great majority of the pilgrims during previous apparitions. Thus, [...]

St. John Eudes (1601-1680) explains: “By an express order of the Most Holy Trinity, [the] glorious Archangel [Gabriel] was deputed to declare to St. Joachim and St. Anne, that the Divine Majesty willed to give them a daughter who should be called Mary, which name was subsequently given Her [by Her father], St. Joachim.  Therefore [...]

This article is from One Peter Five The eye of Sauron has turned to Tyler, Texas. The Pillar is reporting today that the Vatican might come after Bishop Strickland: “The situation of Bishop Strickland is the agenda,” one senior official close to the dicastery told The Pillar, “and the expectation is that the Holy Father will [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Fr. Altman has produced a video titled “Bergoglio is not the Pope.” In his address Fr. Altman correctly states that no churchman – not even the pope – can change dogmatic teachings of the Catholic Church. He first quotes the dogmas of Trent regarding the necessity of a [...]

This article is from One Peter Five We come now to the 15th Sunday after Pentecost, which in an older way of thinking was called Quinta post Sancti Laurentii… the 5th after St. Lawrence, who was so beloved of the Romans.   In fact, most of the Sundays of the year had station churches, not just [...]

This article is from One Peter Five We live, I think no one would deny, in perilous times. I am speaking primarily about the Church, but not only, for all those concentric circles that comprise our communal lives, the family, the nation, seem to be collapsing all around us. The current leadership in Rome thinks [...]

A Brief Reflection Mary drew the promised Savior down from Heaven, the One who was to fill with benediction all the inhabitants of the earth. Truly, the day of Her birth is the day of salvation! Today the Blessed Virgin Mary was born of the line of David.  Through Her the salvation of the world [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Above: Hiroshima aftermath. Arouca Press, 2023 Vermeer’s Angel  is no ordinary novel. In the process of a brilliant interweaving two separate but closely linked narratives, it explores many separate themes, and unlike most modern novels, leaves the reader with much to think about. Despite spies, evil adversaries and [...]