The Church is in the midst of a battle between warring ideologies in the secular and ecclesiastical courts. One combatant is a certain confederation of groups that push for the normalization of homosexuality in the Church and the redefining of sacramental marriage. The other combatant is the traditional, orthodox wing of the Church that promotes…
After a 7-month hiatus, we finally have a new episode of the 1P5 minute to share with you! Today we talk about where we’ve been, and the Joint Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together Pope Francis just signed, saying that God willed the “pluralism and the diversity of religions.” We hope…
Description: New research from Pew shows that Europe has dropped drastically in its overall Catholic population vs. the world. In 1910, Europe had 65% of the world’s Catholics. In 2019, it’s only 24%. Steve talk about what that means. PLUS: 1P5 Contributor Bree Dail reports from Washington DC about this year’s March for Life. NOTE: If you’d…
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has once again written an open letter, this time addressed to former cardinal Theodore McCarrick and dated January 13, the feast of the Baptism of the Lord. In it, Viganò notes that “throughout these months,” McCarrick hasn’t “given any sign of repentance” for his “crimes against minors and abuses against seminarians” and…
Records have surfaced indicating that Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the former archbishop turned apostolic administrator of Washington, D.C., knew about allegations of sexual abuse against former cardinal Theodore McCarrick as early as 2004, the Catholic News Agency (CNA) reports. A report about one such allegation was forwarded by Wuerl to the apostolic nuncio in D.C. at…
Description: With over 900 comments since it was published last Friday, Ryan Grant’s article “Rise of the Benevacantists: Who is Pope?” is the most commented-upon post in 1P5’s nearly five-year history. But why? What does the controversy around the question of who is pope underscore? Why are we seeing more and more internecine fighting among Catholics…
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 successor to disgraced former cardinal Theodore McCarrick, has been embroiled in controversy since the allegations…
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 boys, then nine and six, began splashing around, a group of teen girls entered. They…
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 abuse opened by the Attorney General’s office in August. Sacred Heart seminary’s Vice Rector, Fr.…
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 abuse reported to have been perpetuated by 1,670 clerics in Germany. The majority of victims…
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 Viganò’s report came to be, click here. For Viganò’s response to the initial wave of…
