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This article is from One Peter Five For some weeks we had Pauline readings from the Letters to the Corinthians.  We begin this Sunday with pericopes from the Letter to the Galatians.  The Epistle reading for this 13th Sunday after Pentecost (or as our ancient Roman forebears would have called it, the 3rd after St. [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Above: Bishop Fernandes at ICSKP Columbus. Photo by Allison Girone.  Now that I’ve been given the honorable title as one of the three “Venerable Trad Godmothers” by T. S. Flanders of onepeterfive.com in his recent article “The FBI is Coming after Trads”, due to my interview in the [...]

This article is from One Peter Five A Daughter’s Love On the morning of Whitsunday, the center aisle of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church (Rockdale, Illinois) overflowed with many confirmandi ready to receive the “Sacrament of the Seal.” Amongst the rows and columns of those in their Sunday best were three young sisters, the daughters of [...]

Many non-Catholics falsely believe that everything the Pope states, even orally, is infallible. It should be obvious that this is not the case. (Think: the February 18, 2016 in-flight press conference on the papal plane, in which the use of contraceptives was purported to be “acceptable in difficult situations.”) Many Catholics likewise falsely believe that [...]

This article is from One Peter Five A map of the world dominates the entire wall of a room in a little western Catholic college. Is it a history classroom? Or Geography? Or a study center for world cultures? No—it’s Wyoming Catholic College’s Latin classroom, and to students and professors alike it is not a [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Above: Kilchurn Castle, Scotland. Photo by Connor Mollison on Unsplash Journey through the Three Kingdoms, pt. I: Ireland Journey through the Three Kingdoms, pt. II: England Journey through the Three Kingdoms, pt. III: Scotland As with Ireland and England, Scotland too has a huge hold on the imagination [...]

HAPPY FEAST DAY! A Blessed Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary to You! Great Importance for Our Time The Immaculate Heart of Mary is the mystery most central to the Message of Fatima. Our Lady specifically came in 1917 because the Blessed Trinity wanted to establish devotion to Her Immaculate Heart throughout the world. [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Two hundred years ago yesterday, on August 20, the Pope who found himself in the storm of the Napoleonic days died: Pius VII, whose original name was Barnaba Chiaramonti. Pius VII Benedictine monk, prior of the Abbey of St. Paul in Roma (1775), bishop of Tivoli (1782), cardinal [...]

This article is from One Peter Five In the flow of our green Vetus Ordo Sundays, this 12th Sunday after Pentecost brings the last selection from Paul’s Letters to the Corinthians.  Next week we begin with Galatians.   The order of our readings is very ancient, older in fact than the institution of the Divine Office.   [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Above: St. John’s Eve in Oviedo, Spain. Read part 1 here The Vigil and the Nativity of St. John the Baptist June 23rd is the Vigil of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist. This used to be a day of fasting and abstinence, and we may certainly [...]

Part III[1] In my previous article we saw that the three children were kidnapped, imprisoned and interrogated by the Administrator of Ourém on August 13 and held for two days. He intended to personally terrorize them into revealing the Secret. The children survived their horrific ordeal in Ourém, but they missed out on seeing Our [...]

This article is from One Peter Five When I ‘reverted’ to my baptismal Catholic Faith almost a decade ago I underwent a simultaneous political conversion. Before I came back to the Sacraments (well, really to the Sacraments for the first time as I was raised only nominally Catholic) I would have considered myself a Liberal [...]