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Month: May 2022

Vatican is playing a diplomatic ‘long game’

Posted by | May 6, 2022 | , |

If Pope Francis hasn’t named and shamed Vladimir Putin as aggressor and instigator of the war in Ukraine, it’s because the Holy See plays a long game in diplomacy, trying to bend the arc of history ever toward peace, the Vatican’s nuncio to Canada, Arc…

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Cardinal Becciu: Pope paid kidnap ransom to free missionary

Posted by | May 6, 2022 | , |

At the Vatican’s finance trial, Cardinal Angelo Becciu said that Pope Francis had allowed spending up to 1 million euros ($1.05 million) toward the liberation of a missionary abducted in Mali. Sister Gloria Cecilia Narváez Argoti (pictured with the Holy Father after her release) was kidnapped in February 2017 and held until Oct. 9, 2021.

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ANNOUNCEMENT: Another Englishman Joins the Editorial Board of OnePeterFive

Posted by | May 6, 2022 | , |

Since the publication of our new editorial stance last year, we have attempted to contextualize the modern movement of Traditionalism within the Catholic Counter-Revolutionary movement of 19th century Europe. In one sense “Trads” of today are simply ordinary Catholics as […]

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Building a Moral Immune System

Posted by | May 6, 2022 | , , |

 When Fyodor Dostoevsky sent the manuscript of his celebrated novel, Crime and Punishment, to the publisher, he included a brief note.  “This is the story,” he wrote, “of a university student who is infected by ideas that float on the wind”.  There are three things this brief message conveys that are worth amplifying.  One is […]

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Who Am I to Judge?

Posted by | May 6, 2022 | , |

Pope Francis asked the title question aboard the papal plane while returning from Brazil on July 28, 2013. He made international news when asked whether there was a gay lobby in the Vatican during a press conference aboard the plane. He answered, “If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who […]

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