Yesterday, I received an email with a link to the following video in it and nothing else. I’m not going to even set it up – the title says it all. It’s funny, creative, and wholesome. The kind of content …
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Attention All Parishes in Need of a Choirmaster or Organist!
One of our contributors on the topic of sacred music, Massimo Scapin (whose articles you can see right here), is among the many men and women who are losing their full time jobs because of the coronavirus pandemic. Massimo writes: …

A Nurse Offers Some Advice To Priests Giving Last Rites to Covid Patients
I received an email this week from a Catholic nurse whose family I’ve known for over twenty years. She works in an ICU at a large hospital in Michigan, and she’s on the front lines dealing with incoming cases. She …

Vatican Issues Two Decrees: More Prefaces and Recent Saints in the TLM
Today, on the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, in its capacity as the successor to the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, issued two decrees updating the traditional Missale Romanum …

R4R #41: Coronavirus & Catholicism w/ Steve Skojec
To round out your Friday, I wanted to share with you my appearance on the latest episode of Rules For Retrogrades with Tim and Dave Gordon as we talk shop about the pandemic, Eucharistic theology, and being kept away from …

Free Home Altar Artwork from Daniel Mitsui
Daniel Mitsui is a Catholic artist who has been producing excellent and unique religious artwork for many years. He has also written several pieces on this topic for 1P5 in the past. He reached out to me today to notify …

For Critics of Querida Amazonia, Vindication Cometh
In a new story today from Maike Hickson at LifeSiteNews, we learn that the head of the German bishops relief agency, Msgr. Pirmin Spiegel, has announced at a press conference that Latin American bishops will be making requests soon to …

Male-Female Symbolism in Liturgical Roles: Not Bizarre, Just Catholic
Editor’s Note: OnePeterFive has republished today and yesterday under the name of their author a pair of articles that first appeared in 2015 under the pseudonym Benedict Constable. With the progressive envelope-pushing discussion in the Church of whether women might …

Must Watch: Leila Miller Tackles Divorce on Rules For Retrogrades
This morning I had to make a long round trip drive out of town, and I wanted to listen to something edifying to pass the time. What I ultimately decided on was the audio-only podcast edition of Episode 38 of Rules …

Comparison of Old and New Prayers for Blessing of Ashes
It’s on special days like today that I notice most sharply the vast difference between the LEX ORANDI of the old and the new liturgies. I have prepared a chart comparing the blessing of ashes in the Tridentine rite with …