Against Pettiness
If there is anything that really marks out our present era, it is pettiness – small-mindedness. One thinks immediately, of course, of the campaign against the Tridentine Mass on the part of many in the Catholic hierarchy. The torture in which so many prelates seem to delight in ranges from closing down long-established Latin Mass […]
Traditionis Custodes Comes to England and Wales
Above: Triduum liturgy organised by the Latin Mass Society at St Mary Moorfields in London in 2023. Photo by Joseph Shaw. At the time of the promulgation of Traditionis Custodes in the Summer of 2021, I wrote that the bishops of England and Wales had seemingly decided to “slow walk” the implementation of the motu […]
Part II: On Nominalism
Above: Engelhartszell ( Upper Austria ). Engelszell monastery church ( 1754-64 ) – Rococo pulpit by Johann Georg Üblhör: Abat-voix with sculpture group showing Saint Bernard of Clairvaux vanquishing the philosopher Peter Abelard. Traditional Perspectives on Philosophy – pt. 1: Voluntarism Imagine it’s a Saturday afternoon, and you’re sitting lazily on a couch in your […]
Why the Pre-55 Holy Week Matters
At OnePeterFive we have attempted to probe the depths of the crisis beyond Vatican II and see the roots of many of the problems with Vatican II and its aftermath going back to the 19th century. Hence our emphasis on combatting the clericalism of the 19th century with the Two Swords doctrine and opposing hyerüberultramontanism […]
Forgotten Customs of St. Joseph
Along with St. Patrick, St. Thomas Aquinas, and the Annunciation, the feast of St. Joseph, foster father of our Lord Jesus Christ and patron of the Universal Church, falls during Lent. Yet, despite the necessity of maintaining Lenten penance in the form of fasting and abstinence, St. Joseph’s Day still provides amble opportunities for celebrating […]
Passiontide Begins
Above: scenes from the Passion by Duccio (1260-1319) From The Liturgical Year. After having proposed the forty-days’ fast of Jesus in the desert to the meditation of the faithful during the first four weeks of Lent, the holy Church gives the two weeks which still remain before Easter to the commemoration of the Passion. She […]
Saltem Diebus Dominicis: 1st Passion Sunday – “From a sudden and unprovided death, spare us O Lord!”
We lose things during Lent. We are being pruned through sacred liturgical worship. Holy Church experiences liturgical death before the feast of the Resurrection. Music and flowers go first on Ash Wednesday, along with the word Alleluia. Today, statues and images are draped in purple. That is why today is sometimes called Repus Sunday, from […]
Blessed Karl, Clericalism and Lay Church Governance
Above: Emperor Karl as King Charles IV of Hungary taking his coronation oath in Budapest on 30 December 1916. To the left is Cardinal János Csernoch, Archbishop of Esztergom and Primate of Hungary. Editor’s note: our Patrons at OnePeterFive include a model cleric (St. Maximilian Kolbe) and a model layman (Bl. Emperor Karl) as a […]
The Fall of Church Militant – an Italian View
Above: the Michigan city of Detroit, in which diocese Church Militant formerly operated. An announcement published in the National Catholic Register on March 2 and taken up by OnePeterFive informs us that the American Catholic platform called Church Militant will cease its operations in April 2024. This is mainly due to losing a lawsuit against […]
Trad Godmothers Against the World
In the year of the reign of Jesus Christ 2021, way back in July when “Jailers of Tradition” first came out – almost three years ago at this point – the Holy Father summed up the lies he had imbibed against Trads when he said falsely that the desire for the ancient Roman Rite was […]