News out of Rome this morning indicates that Cardinal Donald Wuerl’s resignation, submitted two years ago as required at the age of 75, has finally been accepted by the pope. Wuerl, the archbishop of the Washington, D.C. archdiocese and direct …
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One Catholic Dad versus the Culture of McCarrick
My family has had its inevitable brushes with the Culture of McCarrick. They emerge unexpectedly in our day-to-day activities and unfold fully on Sundays at church. One began at a country club swimming pool two summers ago. Shortly after our …
Search Warrant Executed on Detroit Chancery & Sacred Heart Seminary
OnePeterFive has received word that the Michigan Attorney General executed search warrants at the Archdiocese of Detroit Chancery and Sacred Heart Major Seminary this morning. The search appears to be related to the investigation into the Church’s handling of clerical …
German Bishops Report Indicates Thousands of Cases of Clerical Abuse
A report commissioned by the German Bishops’ Conference, known as the “MHG Study,” has been obtained by media outlets Spiegel Online and Die Ziet, and the findings are staggering: between 1946 and 2014, there were a reported 3,677 cases of …
Addressing the ‘Proofs’ against Viganò: Noise without Substance
Editor’s note: Aldo Maria Valli, the author of the following article, is the reporter with whom Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò originally planned the publication of his allegations against Pope Francis and several high-ranking Vatican cardinals. For the adventure of how Archbishop …
Sequestered Viganò Speaks: ‘I Am Not the Crow. I Want Only the Truth.’
Editor’s note: The following interview is between Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, now world-famous for his explosive testimony, and Aldo Maria Valli, the reporter with whom Viganò originally planned the publication of his allegations against Pope Francis and several high-ranking Vatican cardinals. …
Broken America and the Departure of Anthony Kennedy
Justice Anthony Kennedy recently announced his resignation from the United States Supreme Court. Good riddance. What Shakespeare said about a traitor’s life in Macbeth applies equally well to Kennedy’s life on the Supreme Court: “Nothing in his life became him …
Ep. 48 – Understanding the Irish Abortion Vote
On Friday, May 24th, the Irish people voted overwhelmingly to remove the legal protection for the unborn that was written into their Constitution in 1983. Today, we attempt to deconstruct that vote and figure out what happened to one of …
“My Country Needs to Know that God is So Beautiful” – FSSP Celebrates 500 Years of Mexican Catholicism
The following is a guest post by Fr. Daniel Heenan, an American priest in the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) currently serving the faithful in Mexico. By Fr. Daniel Heenan, FSSP On May 3rd, 1518, the feast of the …
“Church, Where Are You Going?”: A Report from the Conference of Faithful Resistance in Rome
Image courtesy of Edward Pentin A friend of OnePeterFive who attended Saturday’s conference in Rome, “Chiesa, Dove Vai? [Church, Where Are You Going?] in honor of the late Cardinal Carlo Caffarra, shares with us, apart from the content of the …