Crusade of 2024
Editor’s note: henceforth in the year 2024 of the reign of Christ the King ahead of First Saturdays we will publish this reminder to join this important effort. Let us not underestimate the power of Our Lady’s intercession. Imploring a Divine Intervention for the Crisis of the Church The Confraternity of Our Lady of Fatima, […]
First Friday Reminder: the Crusade is Now
The Crusade of Eucharistic Reparation is a lay sodality run by OnePeterFive in partnership with Benedictus and LatinMass.com (Mass of the Ages). This crusade was called by His Excellency, Bishop Athanasius Schneider in June of 2020 in response to the profanations of Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament during the COVID crisis. Now he has […]
The Art of Dress – A Survey of Principles
Above: The Parthenon by Sanford Robinson Gifford (1869) In 1925, professors of home economics Harriet and Vetta Goldstein published a textbook called Art in Every Day Life. The book and its three subsequent editions soon become a key reference for virtually all other textbooks on dress of the time and ended up influencing generations of […]
Traditionalism is Not a Home
“Catholic Traditionalism” is a reaction to the crisis of the Catholic Church. How can anyone fail to understand this reaction, when almost every day we are subjected to evidence that tells us about the serious situation in which the Catholic Church finds herself? Yet for traditionalists, it is important that this movement avoids its own […]
Join the Trad Fasting Lay Sodality
We are pleased to announce the 2nd edition of Matthew Plese’s work just released: The Definitive Guide to Catholic Fasting & Abstinence. This book forms the basis for our lay sodality, The Fellowship of St. Nicholas, founded by Pese with OnePeterFive and Sensus Fidelium. Read about and join the sodality here. You can learn more and hear […]
Diebus Saltem Dominicis: You can’t be surprised by Lent
Our coming Sunday is already Septuagesima. Let’s do the technical stuff first. Septuagesima slides around from year to year because Easter slides around because the Moon is a bit of a calendrical coquette, or as Juliet calls her, “inconstant”. Easter is early this year, 31 March. We celebrate Easter in the Western Churches on the […]
The Dance of the New Year
Perhaps painting is more natural to man than writing; certainly the oldest cave paintings extant are tens of thousands of years older than the earliest examples of writing. Some of these ancient paintings are incredibly graceful; for example, the horses and bulls of the Lascaux caves in France, dating from perhaps 17,000 years ago, reveal […]
Latin Mass Celebrated Inside the Capitol of the United States
Above: the capitol building of the United States of America in Washington, DC. Despite relentless pressure on Traditional Catholic communities by the Commies in Washington, the Traditional Latin Mass was celebrated at the Capitol just in time for Trump’s third run at the Presidency. On Tuesday, Father Z posted a message he received from someone […]
The Prelate who Faced Napoleon
Above: the restoration of Rome and the Papal Legations by Cardinal Consalvi to Pope Pius VII after the defeat of Napoleon. Engraving by A. Banzo after F. Manno It is said that once, to Napoleon Bonaparte († 1821), who threatened to destroy the Papacy and the Church, a man replied, “Your Majesty, you would be […]
The Great Betrayal
In the past few weeks we have received a great blessing: the demonstration that for a large section of the Catholic Church around the world Pope Francis has gone too far. All the indications until now were that there was no limit to the capacity of the faithful to accept this Pope’s paltering with Catholic […]