Eric Sammons is the Executive Director of Crisis Publications.
Author: Eric Sammons
The Ongoing Mission of OnePeterFive
And that's the shift in OnePeterFive since Timothy Flanders began as its chief editor.
Joy Against Trials: The Blessed Karl Symposium
Editor’s note: to celebrate the feast of one of our patrons at OnePeterFive, we present this report from our contributing editor, Eric Sammons, on the recent event for his cause. Last weekend in the Dallas suburb of Plano, the Blessed …
How to Save Your Community If the TLM Is Taken Away
What Modernist Bishops Fear While the kids are laughing and playing in the courtyard, the adults have gathered in various groups. A few homeschooling mothers are talking about what curriculum they’ll be using in the upcoming school year. Some men …
Liturgical Diversity and My First Ordinariate Mass
Growing up in the United Methodist Church I was blissfully unaware of liturgical debates and differences within Christianity. Our church was what I’d call “Middle Church”—we didn’t embrace all the liturgical riches of High Church Anglicanism, nor did we succumb …
Tradition is a Means to an End
What does it mean to be a “traditional Catholic?” If you listen to some of our critics, it means we must slavishly fit their stereotype of a 1950s white suburban middle class American Catholic. And if we are honest with …
Can Catholics “Recognize and Resist”?
“In a filial and obedient spirit I disobey, I refuse, I rebel.” Although spoken by a 13th century English bishop, these bold yet paradoxical words to the pope represent well the tension found in today’s “Recognize and Resist” movement within …
ANNOUNCEMENT: New 1P5 Editor!
Two weeks ago we announced that OnePeterFive had been acquired by Crisis Publications. At that time I noted that we would soon announce a new editor for the site, so I’m happy to share with you that Timothy Flanders has been …
St. Helen and Holy Relics
Holy relics are a distinctive feature of Catholicism. Would you expect to see the bones of some ancient martyr on display at your local Evangelical church? To most non-Catholics, holy relics are just plain weird. Sadly, veneration of holy relics …
St. Catherine of Genoa and Purgatory
We recently celebrated All Souls Day, in which we prayed for all the faithful departed to be released from purgatory and brought into the presence of God in Heaven. Yet belief in purgatory has fallen on hard times in recent …
A New Day for OnePeterFive
Seven years ago, near the beginning of the current pontificate, OnePeterFive was born. Increasingly concerned by the words and actions of Pope Francis as well as the massive apostasy within the Catholic Church, Steve Skojec sought to resist these troubling …
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