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The Limits of Papal Infallibility Father Nicholas Gruner remarks in his book, Crucial Truths to Save Your Soul: “By a special grace, Popes are preserved when they are defining dogma, but at all other times even the Pope can fall into errors.” Such a statement is based on the Church’s dogmatic definition of Papal infallibility [...]

The Fatima Center wishes you a blessed and grace-filled solemnity of the Ascension! As we contemplate the great Mystery of Our Lord’s Ascension, it behooves us to recognize its parallels and internal harmony to Our Lady’s apparitions at Fatima. In this reflection we will consider three such connections. We invite you to add additional connections [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Ascension of Christ by Polish painter Jan Matejko (1838–1893) Ascensiontide As the Forgotten End of Pascaltide The total length of Paschaltide from Easter Sunday to the end of Whitsuntide is fifty-six days inclusive. In this way, Holy Mother Church shows us the joy of Easter has eclipsed the [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Something missed by Catholics enamored of the post-Conciliar mentality—that dangerous blend of modernism and ultramontanism—is that, in the past, custom was as good as law. St. Augustine could not have been clearer on this: The customs of God’s people and the institutions of our ancestors are to be [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Ahead of the month of June and the Octave of Corpus Christi, we are continuing to work on building our lay sodality, the Crusade of Eucharistic Reparation. The requirements and aims of this crusade can be found here. Once you have heard the call and committed yourself to [...]

By Eric Bermingham and David Rodríguez I went to the movie, A Father’s Heart, which is based on the life of, and the miracles attributed to, St. Joseph[1]. It made a one-day showing at a local theater on May 1, 2023, the feast day of St. Joseph the Worker. Most of the stories were set [...]

This article is from One Peter Five I need your help, dear reader, for this work we’re about here at OnePeterFive. It’s that simple. And urgent. We’re short of our fundraising goals for this spring, and we are in critical need of your gift to make it. Please make your gift today so that we [...]

Editor’s Note: This is a lengthy article which has been published in six parts. Links to each part are located at the bottom of each article. Although it was made public in 2021, many questions have arisen in the past year regarding Russia’s proper consecration. It therefore seems appropriate to re-post this series. A Book [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Depiction at St Julian’s Church, Norwich. Hope in the Midst of Evil 650 years ago on what would become Fatima Day on May 13, 1373, a very serious illness suddenly struck a thirty-year-old woman, “a simple creature, unletterde [sic]” in her own word, who would have aroused the [...]

A BLESSED FEAST OF OUR LADY OF FATIMA TO YOU! On this 106th anniversary of Her first apparition, May 13, 1917, The Fatima Center staff wishes you, dear devotee of Our Lady of Fatima, a blessed feast day! Appearing “more brilliant than the sun,” Our Lady announced to Lucia dos Santos and her cousins Jacinta [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Sitting on the soft couch in the semi-darkness, I could see the faces of my friends illumined by the fire. As it sank and rose with the addition of fuel, the firelight on the ceiling danced in a water-like parody of flame. There were no electric lights—you never [...]

This article is from One Peter Five We continue with this year’s task, our dive into the Epistle, the first reading for Sunday’s Holy Mass in the Vetus Ordo of the Roman Rite.   We began this Eastertide with readings from 1 Peter.  As we draw nearer to the Feast of the Ascension we hear from [...]