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Proselytizing the Popesplainers

This article is from One Peter Five Above: Pope Mobile in Thailand, 2019. The following information comes from an article from my esteemed colleague, Michael Haynes at LifeSiteNews, and I have mixed in my brazen and snarky commentary throughout. Before we continue, we should define a term, the term popesplainer. What is a popesplainer? Simply [...]

3rd Sunday after Epiphany: “‘Vengeance is YOUR’S’, saith the Lord!” No… wait… that’s not how it goes.

This article is from One Peter Five We are looking at the Epistle readings for the Vetus Ordo on Sundays. This week we continue what we prayed last week. I say, “what we prayed,” because the readings themselves are part of a sacrificial offering, the Word being raised to the Father, as the Word made [...]

The One Thread By Which the Council Hangs: a Response to Cavadini, Healy, and Weinandy

This article is from One Peter Five Above: photos of (left) Requiem Mass for Pope Benedict XVI at the Monastère Saint-Benoît, provided by the monastery, and (right) Mass in Mexico, by marianaarias of CathoPic.   “Don’t touch that! If you do, everything will collapse!” The warning is clear enough. Any sensible person would rapidly desist, [...]

Two “Disobediences” Compared

This article is from One Peter Five Take the well-informed young priests of today. They know, thanks to studying Benedict XVI and other authors, that the Novus Ordo has serious flaws and lacunae, to which the TLM can supply remedies. So, they set about fixing what is broken. Some do it on a modest scale by observing [...]

Pneumatomachianism Refuted: Defending the Divinity of the Holy Ghost

Editor’s Note: The Christmas Season is a time when we focus on the Mystery of the Incarnation: the perfect and complete divinity of Jesus Christ and His perfect and complete humanity. The first centuries of the Church were littered with heresies which denied His divinity (e.g., post-Resurrection Judaism and Arianism) or His humanity (e.g., Gnosticism [...]

How Could Russia Invade Europe?

Troubling News Ongoing in Eastern Europe The Russian “Special Military Operation” in Ukraine has been going on for about 10 months now. At this point, the Ukrainian military – with help from NATO – has ostensibly fought Russia to a stalemate, with the battle lines not moving much since early in the operation. That may [...]

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