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Bishop Schneider Suggests SSPX Excommunications Would Be “Not Valid”
4+ hour, 25+ min ago (374+ words) Duration: 00:04:29 | Recorded on March 9, 2026 His Excellency Bishop Schneider has commented further on the case of the SSPX. This time His Excellency was not speaking publicly but rather in a private meeting with his lay sodality the Confraternity of Our Lady…...
In Illo Tempore: 3rd Sunday in Lent
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (1249+ words) Convert from Lutheranism, ordained to the priesthood in 1991 by St. John Paul II in Rome for the Suburbicarian Diocese of Velletri-Segni. Classics at University of Minnesota. Licence and Doctoral studies in Patristic Theology at the Augustinianum in... In Illo Tempore:…...
Cardinal Zen against Cardinal Fernández: He "intends to dismantle the traditions of the Church"
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (839+ words) Let's read through the statement in translation and make a few comments. The following translation comes from Rorate Caeli noting a few things from the Italian. The emphasis is in the original. So how can this case be resolved? The…...
Should Rome Pursue Ecumenism with the SSPX?
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (732+ words) If Weakland's in, who could possibly be out?John Senior As readers of OnePeterFive are well aware, the SSPX has now been threatened with excommunication." The superior general has rejected the offer of dialogue in exchange for cancelling their planned…...
German Schismatic Way Hoping for Rome to Confirm their Lay Preachers at Mass
6+ day, 6+ hour ago (569+ words) Duration: 00:06:03 | Recorded on March 3, 2026 While the SSPX is being threatened with excommunication, the German Schismatic Way has continued at the same pace as before. They have now adopted a resolution to confirm their practice of lay preachers at Mass, and…...
This Obscure Italian Saint Offered His Communions for 50 Years for the Conversion of England
1+ week, 2+ day ago (90+ words) I wish I could join the modern Passionist order as a lay 3rd order member. But alas." Nevertheless, This book has changed my life radically." -I want to share it with every single soul." -I want to be an apostle of…...
Catholic Music for the Missions
1+ week, 2+ day ago (328+ words) Above: Chinese seminarians in 1900. On February 28, 1926exactly one century agoPope Pius XI issued the encyclical Rerum Ecclesi, a landmark document that profoundly shaped the Catholic Church's missionary activity. Its central theme was the vigorous promotion of evangelization among non-Christian peoplesa mission…...
Cardinal Sarah Pleads for Unity
2+ week, 3+ hour ago (629+ words) Duration: 00:14:30 | Recorded on February 23, 2026 Miss Diane Montagna has published an official English translation of Cardinal Sarah's appeal for unity on her Substack. Here we will read the whole thing, then make a few comments. Let us pray to Our Lady…...
The Vigils of the Apostles: Apostolic Watchfulness and Penitential Preparation
2+ week, 8+ hour ago (956+ words) Above: the reliquary of St. Matthias in Padua. Editor's note: today is a "holy day of opportunity: the vigil of St. Matthias. The author explains this significance below. Part I " The Roman Calendar in 1954: The Last Year of Wholeness Part…...
In Illo Tempore: 1st Sunday of Lent
2+ week, 2+ day ago (411+ words) The Collect of the 1962 Missale Romanum prays with lapidary brevity: Deus, qui Ecclesiam tuam annua quadragesimali observatione purificas: praesta familiae tuae; ut, quod a te obtinere abstinendo nititur, hoc bonis operibus exsequatur. O God, who purify Your Church by means…...