Blood-Sucking Vampire or National Hero? A Defense of Vlad “Dracula” The Impaler
Above: portrait of Vlad III (c. 1560). Irish author Bram Stoker has invented one of the greatest yarns of horror while incorporating love and adventure in his captivating novel, Dracula. The Celtic peoples are generally known for their inventions of the weird and awful as well as the fairy people and leprechauns. Stoker has incorporated […]
Tucho Goes to Egypt
Above: Cardinal Fernández meets with Baba Tawadros II, Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church on May 22, 2024. Photo Credit: Coptic Church Official News. At OnePeterFive we have endeavoured to strengthen the Traditional movement not only in terms of analysing the crisis deeper than Vatican II (see here and here), but also promoting traditional eastern […]
Diebus Saltem Dominicis: Trinity Sunday – We might want to get this one right
The Catechism of the Catholic Church 234 says that the doctrine of the Most Holy Trinity is the We might want to get this one right. The other mysteries of our faith revolve around what God does and has done. This Sunday we focus on the Doer. In the early Church this Sunday was liturgically […]
On “Faggotry” with Pope Francis
Secular media in English found it newsworthy to blast the Anglophone world about what the Pope might have said. First of all, why is the secular world amazed by what might have happened? Is this “secular sin” so bad that even an allegation such as this is considered worthy of the BBC? It was so […]
The Art of Dress –Elegance versus Beauty
Other articles in this series: The Art of Dress – Two Schools of Thought The Art of Dress – Problems with Normalcy The Art of Dress – Learning from the Valiant Woman The Art of Dress – What Nuns can Teach Us The Art of Dress – A Survey of Principles Responding to my recent […]
Francis, “Deaconettes,” and the St. Gallen Mafia
“No,” Pope Francis said. He was answering Norah O’Donnell’s question about whether “a little girl growing up Catholic today” could “ever have the opportunity to be a deacon and participate as a clergy member in the Church.” Directly and tersely, the pope said, “No.” It was a seemingly definitive response—and across the social media site […]
Who was Pope Benedict XIII?
Three centuries have passed since Pier Francesco Orsini was elected pope on May 29, 1724, after a conclave lasting nearly three months, assuming the name Benedict XIII (†1730). This man, “whose labors in favor of keeping and restoring ecclesiastical discipline and of ensuring the splendor of churches have been most known,”[1] also made contributions to […]
Why Harrison Butker Attends the Latin Mass and You Should Too
Of all the Catholic truth bombs Harrison Butker dropped on the graduating class of Benedictine College in a commencement address that has generated almost two weeks of vilification and vitriol, one of the most powerful was his endorsement of the Traditional Latin Mass. As Butker explained, “I do not attend the TLM because I think […]
Octave of Corpus Christi – Day 1
Above: The Last Supper (1562) by Juan de Juanes. Editor’s note: to promote the observance of the traditional Corpus Christi Octave as a part of our Crusade of Eucharistic Reparation, we will publish each day the Patristic readings from the Octave, as contained in pre-55 breviaries. The following readings and responsories come from the Roman […]
Bill Walton—basketball legend, Deadhead and radical optimist—was a model of a life well-lived
“I wanted to be a basketball player, be a hippie, on tour with The Grateful Dead, be an adventurer. I didn’t spend my life trying to be the richest guy on Earth,” Walton once said about himself.