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This article is from One Peter Five Our task this year is to look into the first reading for Holy Mass on Sunday celebrated with the Roman Catholic Church’s venerable and always legitimate and appropriate and contemporary and fruitful and ever alluring and awesome Vetus Ordo.   We come to Pentecost at last, that major bookend, [...]

This article is from One Peter Five See how the solemnity of the Pasch has reached its conclusion without losing any of its splendor. The Pasch is the beginning of grace, Pentecost is the crown. – St. Augustine of Hippo On Pentecost we commemorate the descent of the Holy Ghost upon the Blessed Virgin Mary [...]

What Is a Swiss Guard? The Swiss Guards are a unit of the Swiss Army that is responsible for providing security for the Pope and the Vatican City State. They were founded in 1506 by Pope Julius II, who hired[1] a group of Swiss soldiers to protect him and the Church’s territorial land.[2] Julius II [...]

St. Maximilian Kolbe – Marian Martyr of Charity St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe (1894-1941) lived a life of intense devotion to the Mother of God. He founded the Militia Immaculata to promote Marian devotion and to fight against freemasonry. He also established a city of the Immaculate (Niepokalanow, Poland). It was populated by souls consecrated to [...]

This article is from One Peter Five A young man sent me a letter in which he expressed his perplexity about whether he should join a community that celebrates both “forms” of the Mass, or one that is exclusively traditional. Dear Friend, Thank you for writing to me about your challenging situation. You have completed [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Above: Pope Francis pets a dog at the general audience in St. Peter’s Square on October 5, 2016. © L’Osservatore Romano A few days ago Pope Francis made the news, revealing that he had “scolded” a lady who allegedly asked him for a blessing for her dog, which [...]

This article is from One Peter Five There is a growing desire, among faithful Catholics, to remove all connections from the outside world. It’s a reaction in response to the world’s progressive ideology that includes an upheaval of common decency, a lack of morality, and a disgust of anything related to God. As I understand [...]

This article is from One Peter Five I regret to share with you, that now, as our spring fundraising campaign comes to a close, we haven’t received what we needed. I don’t mean to sound so final, because we can still get there.  It’s really up to you. If everyone reading this message today gives [...]

Read Part One: Can Popes Personally Err?  Pope St. Peter The first instance of a Pope erring is seen in the life of the very first Pope and recorded in the Holy Scriptures themselves. As related in Galatians 2:11-21, St. Paul rebuked St. Peter because St. Peter was being hypocritical in his behavior towards Gentile [...]

This article is from One Peter Five We have attained during the week the Feast of the Ascension of the Lord and this is the Sunday that falls between that mysterious event and the descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. All the events of the life of the Lord are mysterious, but some are [...]

This article is from One Peter Five What we have endured over the past two-and-a-half years demonstrate what Matthew Crawford has called “the utility of moral panics.”[1] Crawford rightly observes that the COVID regimes were justified by the hysterically exaggerated threat posed by a single virus, while all other threats to life, including those provoked [...]

This article is from One Peter Five In the architecture of traditional Catholicism, you can con template God; in its liturgy you can encounter and receive Him. But in the architecture and liturgy of modernism, this is hardly possible. God may be present, but “contemplation” of Him is outdated, and encounter with Him is conditioned [...]