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This article is from One Peter Five At age eleven, I dreamed of one day becoming a Barbie doll designer. Swept off my feet by images of Bob Mackie Barbies I found in books at the library, I decided nothing could be more delightful than sketching my own designs of my favorite toy—what her hair [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Above: John Paul II at World Youth Day Denver, 1993. You hear the word “culture” thrown around a lot these days. However, I would like to hazard that most of the time this word is misused. Typically when people use the term “culture” they are referring to “general [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Finding Abraham’s Gift Roads don’t always go in the direction we think they will. This is true metaphorically and literally. But unexpected turns when driving a car are usually easier to deal with than unexpected turns in our lives. For one thing, they take a matter of minutes, [...]

This article is from One Peter Five In the first installment of this series on the Traditional Theology of the Magisterium, we began by defining some of our key terms. With that preliminary step out of the way, we can begin our theological investigation properly speaking by turning to the sources of divine revelation—Sacred Scripture [...]

Like Jan Huss, Huldrych Zwingli is often overshadowed by Martin Luther. But all three of these alleged reformers need to be studied so that we can continue to refute their errors and bring about an end to Protestantism. Beyond Lutheranism Martin Luther unleashed a holy war against the Church. Actual physical battles in defense of [...]

This article is from One Peter Five The Church’s Liturgical Year is a harmonious interplay of feasts and fasts interwoven in both the temporal and sanctoral cycles that define the rhythm and rhyme of Catholic life. While there are many customs associated with the seasons of the liturgical year and high ranking feast days, the [...]

This article is from One Peter Five This Sunday we observe the Feast of the Transfiguration rather than the “green” Sunday after Pentecost, being the 10th. This Feast of the Transfiguration has a complicated history.  First, in Rome there were celebrated on 6 August the feast of the martyrs Pope Sixtus II and six of [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Above: Baggy Point, Moor Lane, Croyde, Braunton, UK. Journey through the Three Kingdoms, pt. I: Ireland Journey through the Three Kingdoms, pt. II: England If Ireland is the spiritual home of many of the Catholics and Orangemen scattered around the Anglosphere, the next Kingdom, England, is surely still [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Above: Patronal Festivity in Saint Louis, Missouri, 2022 Catholics of St. Louis, Missouri, are preparing once again for the celebration of their city’s patron, Louis IX, King of France. They welcome pilgrims from the world over to the 4th Annual Festival of Saint Louis which will feature special guests, Peter [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Above: the “carefully crafted spirituality itinerary” graphically depicted from the WYD website.  After a brief hiatus due to “COVID” (which I prefer to pronounce by its traditional spelling, communism) the World Youth Day (WYD) is back! This year it is taking place in Lisbon, Portugal and the opening [...]

This article is from One Peter Five The following article is adapted from a larger document co-authored by Peter Kwasniewski, Izabella Parowicz, Joseph Shaw, and Piotr Stec, defending the proposition that the Traditional Latin Mass counts as a supreme example of intangible cultural heritage that deserves international recognition and legal protection. Those who wish to [...]

This article is from One Peter Five “We don’t want to convert these young people to Jesus Christ.” You remember these insane words uttered by the newly-named-Cardinal Américo Aguiar a few weeks back ahead of the World Youth Day in Lisbon, which he is leading, going on now. These words of Antichrist made such waves [...]