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This article is from One Peter Five Our task this year is to give attention to the Epistle, the first reading for Sunday’s Holy Mass in the Vetus Ordo.  We try to include some context to enrich our contact with Christ in the reading and make some branching connections.  Let’s start with a connection. Our [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Above: “Joachim of Fiore shows the portraits of Saint Dominic de Guzmán and Saint Francis of Assisi” by American Baroque painter Gregorio Vásquez (1638–1711) of New Granada, modern Colombia. Editor’s note: we publish here the first lecture from Dr. Rao at last summer’s symposium of the Roman Forum. [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Above: the Catholic Church known as Die Wotrubakirche in Vienna. Photo by Stefano Perego.   Cardinals Arthur Roche and Raniero Cantalamessa indirectly acknowledged (perhaps unintentionally) what critics of Paul VI’s Novus Ordo Missae have said for over fifty years: The new rite corresponds to a new theology that [...]

One very controversial eschatological topic today is the identity of the “Katechon” (Greek for “Restrainer”) of 2 Thessalonians 2:6-7. The Restrainer is the one holding back the Antichrist. “And now you know what withholds, that he [Antichrist] may be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity already works; only that he who now [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Roger Buck, the author of a pair of charming books featuring a character called “The Gentle Traditionalist” (see here, here, and here), runs a YouTube channel on which may be found a (to my mind) classic episode called “(Catholic) Nectar in a Sieve.” He uses the metaphor of [...]

 “In the world you shall have distress: but have confidence, I have overcome the world” (John 16:33). A History of Bloodshed and Revolution Often untaught to children today, Catholics were extremely persecuted in Mexico during the early 1900s because of the rise of the atheistic government in Mexico, which was seeking to secularize the country [...]

This article is from One Peter Five This month marks 450 years of the Bull Monet Apostolus of Pope Gregory XIII Boncompagni († 1585), with which, on April 1, 1573, the worthy successor of Pope St. Pius V († 1572) instituted the solemn feast of the Rosary (festum sollemne sub nuncupatione Rosarii), to be celebrated every year [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Joyfully Proclaiming the Word of Christ No Matter the Circumstances On March 25, 2023, the Feast of the Annunciation, a group of 100 Catholics embarked on a pilgrimage of penance, prayer, and thanksgiving between the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington, VA and the Cathedral of St. [...]

This article is from One Peter Five We have been celebrating the Resurrection of the Lord for the period of the Octave.  We’ve stopped the liturgical clock so that we can rest in the mystery, so that we can contemplate it from different angles, especially in the Office and in the Mass formulas each day.  [...]

The 1903 Conclave that elected Pope St. Pius X was the scene of an almost-entirely undiscussed historical event – the near election of Cardinal Rampolla as the Vicar of Christ. This forgotten episode of Catholic history should not be lost to history. It contains many valuable lessons. Who Was Cardinal Rampolla? Mariano Rampolla del Tindaro [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Above: Pope Julius II “the Warrior Pope” who convoked the failed ecumenical council, Lateran V. Portrait by Raphael.  Here is a counterfactual for you. The year is 1545, and the Catholic Church is in shambles. The Protestant revolt has spread across Germany, France, Scandinavia, and into Eastern Europe. [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Painting: “A Mass Scene” by José Miralles Darmanin (1851–1900). Some people object to the phrase “traditional Catholic,” as if it were redundant: Aren’t Catholics by definition adherents of Catholic tradition—and thus, any Roman Catholic has as much right to be called “traditional” as he has to be called [...]