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This article is from One Peter Five The Roman Missal, polished after the Council of Trent and promulgated by St. Pope Pius the V, and his successors until the 60’s, is surely one of the most important books that has ever been published.   Having its roots firmly in at a millennium of devotion and fidelity [...]

We know from history and archeology that bustling metropolises have witnessed rapid and total devastation. Such cataclysmic events can be divine chastisements (e.g., Sodom and Gomorrah). Sadly, theistic evolution has conditioned us to see man-harming natural disasters as mere manifestations of the “normal” course of nature. Such a perspective can lead people to doubt the [...]

This article is from One Peter Five After months of “listening to the People of God” and reviewing reports prepared by dioceses and episcopal conferences around the globe, the General Secretariat for the Synod of Bishops in Rome has produced a “Working Document for the Continental Stage” (DCS), the next phase of the three-year Synod [...]

This article is from One Peter Five During the Holy season of Lent, the Church in her wisdom has many mysteries and truths of faith that she wishes to bring to the minds of the faithful. In my last article, I spoke of the importance of practicing mortification. We saw how not only are the [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Maria 1.0 – Press release The storm is coming – it’s getting uncomfortable on the Synodal Way On the day before the start of the fifth Synodal Assembly, the future looks stormy. One rubs one’s eyes in bewilderment when one looks at the initial situation of the coming [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Lucifer, King of Hell; Canto XXXIV of The Inferno, by Dante Alighieri; Illustration by Gustave Doré Purgatory and Hell: Forgotten Destinations – Part I   If one were to sample the doctrine of today’s sermons and books, one would think that every human being who has ever been [...]

“Be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, Whom you crucified, Whom God hath raised from the dead, even by Him this man standeth here before you whole. This is the stone which was rejected by you the builders, [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Part I: How the German post Vatican II hymnal Gotteslob helped pave the way for the Synodal Way   The fate of one of the most famous traditional German Catholic hymns following the Second Vatican Council offers an example of how the Church in Germany used what I [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Quoth TC: It belongs to the diocesan bishop, as moderator, promoter, and guardian of the whole liturgical life of the particular Church entrusted to him, to regulate the liturgical celebrations of his diocese.  Therefore, it is his exclusive competence to authorize the use of the 1962 Roman Missal [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Above: an early printing of Luther’s hymn “Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott.” The Catholic version of the 20th century follows the same content and tactics.  Hymnal or Hmmm? Many elements have helped pave the road that has led the Church in Germany to its current precarious Synodal [...]

This article is from One Peter Five This year I am tasked with looking at the first reading for Sundays in the Vetus Ordo.  For this 2nd Sunday of Lent, Holy Church has us read for about the 1500th time St. Paul’s First Letter to the Thessalonians 4:1-7.  It is not read in the Novus [...]

This article is from One Peter Five Above: Bishop Schneider addressing those who took up the cross at the investment ceremony last fall. I wholeheartedly support and bless this necessary and very important lay initiative for eucharistic revival in the Church of our day. -Bishop Athanasius Schneider The Crusade of Eucharistic Reparation is a lay [...]