Part 4: Enter the Soviets
Above: Soviet Army in Kiev, 1920 Part I: What is the Russian Catholic Church? Introduction Part II: Heralds of a Catholic Russia Part III: Venerable and Blessed Founders of the Russian Catholic Exarchate The revolution struck hard. In 1918, the number of Catholic parishioners in St. Petersburg alone was 400 lay people with a few thousand […]
Christ The King: Saints in Light
We continue this liturgical year’s task with a look into Colossians 1:12-20, our pericope for Holy Mass at the Epistle for this last Sunday of October. As the last October Sunday, it is the Feast of Christ the King in the Church’s 1962 calendar. In the Novus Ordo Christ as King is celebrated on the […]
Unprecedented since the Council: Schneider Issues Canonical Catechism Against Modern Errors
Dated on the feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop Athanasius Schneider has issued a formally canonical catechism as a part of his participation in the ordinary Magisterium of the Church. The Rome release was today. “This work was not my idea. I was compelled to write it by the Catholic faithful.” –@BishopAthanas1 pic.twitter.com/ZIiTISQmmV — OnePeterFive (@OnePeterFive) […]
Pope Protects Abuser Priest, Now Returning to a Parish
It has now been confirmed that the infamous Fr. Rupnik has been incardinated into the Slovenian diocese of Koper. This happened back in August, before Pope Francis made ostentatious moves to defend the priest and his organisation, while his ghastly artwork fills Rome’s churches and the synod website. Pope Francis does not care about the […]
A Novel of Atlantis
Robert Lazu Kmita’s novel, published in 2023 by Os Justi Press The strange story of Alexander Wills begins breathtakingly with the oneiric description of a storm shaking the captain’s cabin on board some pre-steam vessel. The entire book is presented as the account that Wills started writing on 15 August 2003. Thus, the reader knows […]
Ida Friederike Görres: A Forgotten Catholic Rediscovered
Ida Friederike Görres Ida Friederike who?? Ida Friederike Görres was once a well known Catholic author in German-speaking Europe, Britain, and the US. Yet, at her death in 1971, hers was exactly the kind of voice none of the emerging powers wanted to hear; they were busy paving the way for “The Synodal Way” and […]
New Response in the Same-Sex Blessing Controversy
Back on September 30th, a few days before the new Dubia were released, Cardinal Tucho Fernández gave an interview to LifeSite News about Same-sex blessings which has now been published. But before we get to that, I want to go back to the 2021 document approved by the Holy Father which was meant to put […]
May a Bishop in Extraordinary Circumstances Ordain Another Bishop Without Papal Consent?
That the Church of Christ is Apostolic and that among the Apostles the primacy belongs to Peter and to his successors is a truth clearly established in Scripture and Holy Tradition. Nevertheless, the exact content of such primacy is something the understanding of which has developed in history. It is when a special crisis arises […]
Venerable and Blessed Founders of the Russian Catholic Exarchate
Above: Venerable Andrey Sheptytsky in 1910. Part I: What is the Russian Catholic Church? Introduction Part II: Heralds of a Catholic Russia Venerable Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky (1865-1944) I would insist here that Venerable Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky was head of the remaining western offspring of the once united and Catholic Metropolis of Kiev. The initial canonical […]
1,000 Catholic Faithful Answer the Dubia Sent to Pope Francis
In a worldwide witness to the Catholic Faith, more than 1,000 Catholic faithful from 50 countries have taken it upon themselves to answer the recent dubia sent by five Cardinals to Pope Francis on key areas of doctrine currently being undermined at the highest levels of the Church. Organized by the campaign Missae pro Missa, this […]