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This article is from One Peter Five Julian Kwasniewski: Your Excellency, thank you for agreeing to this interview. With continued assaults on the family from every quarter including Rome, I wanted to speak with you regarding the family and its place in the contemporary world. Sometimes there is a controversy among conservative Catholics as to [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Above: Solesmes Abbey. In its history, the liturgy of the Catholic Church, like all things, has known moments of great development and moments of decline. It is not surprising that in the nineteenth century this decadence was deeply felt, if one thinks of what had weighed on the [...]

This article is from One Peter Five In my Catholic Answers article I sought to defend the idea that children should attend the liturgy at all, against the claim, that I have often heard, that children should not be taken to Mass “until they can behave.” This precept usually impossible for parents to follow, if [...]

Of all the calumnies hurled against the Catholic Church by those opposed to her, allegations regarding the Inquisition are some of the most notorious. Yet history shows them, like the lies regarding the Crusades, to be false. What Do People Claim Happened During the Inquisition? It is common to claim that during the Inquisition, individuals [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Above: rainforest near Balok, Malaysia. The First Article of the Creed Complicated debates about creation rage. One hears competing claims about how God created the universe: “Young earth!” “Theistic evolution!” “Intelligent design!” Others reject creation outright and intone, “Evolution, evolution, evolution!” or simply claim, “It does not matter [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Context is important.  We’ve been over the ground we tread before, regard the liturgical season and the Letter Paul wrote to the Romans.  However, here is something from dom Prosper Guéranger about the flow this time of year: It is to the Romans that are addressed today’s inspired [...]

This article is from One Peter Five I sometimes brag to other Catholics that I know the size of pants worn by the notable Theology of the Body speaker Christopher West. If you’re still reading, allow me to reminisce on simpler times… I–or a much younger version of myself–am at a Theology of the Body [...]

This article is from One Peter Five The magisterium is a topic of great interest and grave importance for traditionalists today. The editorial stance that OnePeterFive has adopted, with which I am in full agreement, is one that strives to strike a balance between the excessive adulation of the magisterium typical of the hyperpapalists and [...]

“I am the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first” (St. Thomas More).[1] The Decriminalization of Sin Until the mid-20th Century, most U.S. states (especially southern and northeastern states) had laws against fornication, adultery, cohabitation, and other grievous sins. These laws have gradually been abolished or struck down by courts as unconstitutional. As of 2023, adultery [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Four centuries ago, on July 4, 1623, the greatest of English polyphonists, an “obstinate papist” during the reign of Elizabeth I (excommunicated and deposed by Pope St. Pius V in 1570), died in Stondon Massey, Essex, England: William Byrd. It is moving to read his will, in which [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Independence Day is once more upon us, and with it, all that we love about the Fourth. While the wondrous fireworks that private citizens used to let loose with to express their freedom are a thing of the past in most places (although one remembers with civic pride [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Dear OnePeterFive donors, supporters, and readers,   I’m pleased to announce that magisterial theologian Dr. John Joy is joining the editorial staff of OnePeterFive. I got to know his work when he appeared on a few YouTube channels and I realised that with our other theologian contributing editor, [...]