Our Wounds as Abused Children, the Filioque, and Eastern Orthodoxy
Dear OnePeterFive donors, supporters and readers, Recently on the OnePeterFive Podcast, I tried to unpack the inner spiritual realities at work in the question of Eastern Orthodoxy, to which Catholics are especially susceptible. I made mention of this in my first article introducing the series “Against the Greek Schisms.” Eric Sammons over at our sister […]
Joy and Sorrow with the Holy Family
The calendar of feasts during this part of the liturgical year is very complicated because it has undergone a great deal of adjustment in a relatively short period of time. Popes moved things around over the last seven decades or so. Our Christmas cycle that began with Advent now continues with the Epiphanytide which embraces […]
Priests: Why Do You Allow Jesus to Be Literally Trampled?
By Antoine and Maria Ménoret Many things have been printed on the history and debate over distributing the Eucharist in the hand or on the tongue.[1] One topic we have never seen discussed is why Catholic priests do not mandate communicants to check for Eucharistic fragments when they receive in the hand. This negligence has […]
Cradle Trad Catholic: We Have Every Reason to Hope
As a cradle Catholic, my younger years look a bit different than the average Catholic child being raised in the 1980s and 1990s. I was raised a traditional Catholic, but not as it looks today. The term “Trad” was unknown. The Latin Mass was not found at local diocesan parishes, the ICKSP and FSSP had […]
The Three Kings: Men of Faithful Fortitude
On 6 January we celebrate Epiphany, the day three kings bowed low and presented gifts to the King of kings. Many commemorate the event with different family traditions. However, our familiarity with the story may lead us to overlook important lessons. So, let us look at Epiphany more deeply, for it has much wisdom to […]
The Continuation of the Mystery of Christmas
By Dom Prosper Guéranger The Feast of the Epiphany is the continuation of the mystery of Christmas; but it appears on the Calendar of the Church with its own special character. Its very name, which signifies Manifestation, implies that it celebrates the apparition of God to his creatures. For several centuries, the Nativity of our Lord was […]
“O, What a Tangled Web…”: Thirty-Three Falsehoods in the CDW’s Responsa ad Dubia
On December 18, 2021, the Vatican released the text of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments’ “Responsa Ad Dubia on certain provisions of the Apostolic Letter Traditionis Custodes [TC] issued ‘motu proprio’ by the Supreme Pontiff Francis, to the Presidents of the Conferences of Bishops.” The Responses were prefaced by […]
Pope Francis’ Misleading Appeal to Vatican II and Augustine
To justify his repeal of Pope Benedict XVI’s Summorum Pontificum, Pope Francis charged that many Latin Mass communities were regarding themselves as superior to the Church. Francis’ letter accompanying the motu proprio is clear: …[E]ver more plain in the words and attitudes of many is the choice of celebrations according to the liturgical books prior to […]
Crusade: Our Response to Traditionis Custodes
In the history of the crusading movement we can observe certain factors which contributed to success or failure, whether in the early crusades of the so-called “Byzantine Empire,” or in the Reconquista, the Eastern Crusades and the Northern Crusades of Western Christendom.[1] One of these factors is rootedness about which I spoke last week. The […]
Forgotten Customs of Epiphanytide
O God, of Whose mercies there is no number, and of Whose goodness the treasure is infinite: we render thanks to Thy most gracious Majesty for the gifts Thou hast bestowed upon us, always beseeching Thy clemency; that as Thou grantest the petitions of them that ask Thee, Thou wilt never forsake them, but wilt […]