Category: spirituality

Pope condemns targeting of Christians in Gaza

Pope Francis condemned the Israeli military’s killing of two Christian women taking shelter at a Catholic parish in Gaza, as well as an attack on a convent, describing the IDF’s actions as “terrorism”. The Pope’s comments came after praying the Angelus in St Peter’s Square, December 17, as Francis decried the December 16 attack on […]

Vatican blinks and German Synod gets a win

Christoph Arens (KNA) In the end, the Vatican budged after all. Many German catholics had not expected its decision, announced shortly before Christmas, to allow the blessing of homosexual and remarried couples. Some reform minded catholics called it a Christmas present. For Irme Stetter-Karp, president of the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK), the decision […]

Advent Reflections on the Four Last Things: Hell

Hell Is Proof of Man’s Exalted Dignity The Offertory prayers speak of how God “wondrously endowed dignity to human nature.”[1] The eternity of Hell manifests the proof of this exalted dignity in two ways. The first is that man’s soul is immortal. The only time that God still creates out of nothing is the creation […]

Archdiocese Condemns “Evil” Vatican Document and Prohibits Same-sex Blessings

Above: Archbishop Tomash Peta, Archbishop of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Saint Mary in the city of Astana, and the President of the Bishops’ Conference of Kazakhstan from May 19, 2003. Statement of the Archdiocese of Saint Mary in Astana regarding the Declaration “Fiducia supplicans”, published by the Dicastery of the Doctrine of Faith and approved by […]

Asking Christopher West 10 Questions about Sex

Matt asks Christopher to explain the Church’s teaching on 10 controversial topics in today’s culture.  @TheologyoftheBodyInstitute   info@tob.org Leaving the Gay Lifestyle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GybOCasgJng&t=1s Leaving the Lesbian Lifestyle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvFlZHaZg4g&t=1559s 🟣 Join Us on Locals (before we get banned on YT): https://mattfradd.locals.com/ 🖥️ Website: https://pintswithaquinas.com/ 🟢 Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/pintswithaquinas 👕 Merch: https://shop.pintswithaquinas.com 🔵 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mattfradd 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mattfradd We […]

Is the “12 Days of Christmas” Really a Secret Code?

It’s a common claim among Catholics that the English Christmas carol “The Twelve Days of Christmas” is a secret code for Catholic teachings used when Catholicism was illegal in England. But is that really true? First, here’s what is commonly claimed: Catholicism was illegal in England from the 16th to the 19th centuries, and the […]

How to Rebuild Christendom Now

We are pleased to announce that the articles of Matthew Plese on lost customs of Christendom have now been published as a book. Shortly after I took on the editorship here at OnePeterFive, I asked Plese to write this series which I believe to be fundamental to rebuilding Christendom, because these are the things that […]

Rorate

Send down, ye heavens from above, your rain Let righteousness rain down on mortal plains Forget Thy wrath, O Lord, be not enraged And our iniquities remember not Forever, for behold a desert made Is our holy city, to us lost Sion Mount deserted is, and bare A barren waste upon a barren plain Jerusalem […]