Steve Skojec is the Founding Publisher and Executive Director of OnePeterFive.com. He received his BA in Communications and Theology from Franciscan University of Steubenville in 2001. His commentary has appeared in The New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, Crisis Magazine, EWTN, Huffington Post Live, The Fox News Channel, Foreign Policy, and the BBC. Steve and his wife Jamie have seven children.
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Italian Bishops Take Aim at Summorum Pontificum, Want Traditional Mass Abrogated
As has so often been the case in the past year or two, an important report has surfaced on the Italian traditionalist blog, Messa in Latino (Mass in Latin). In it, the authors reveal that at the recent Italian Bishops’ …
“It’s Not Francis’s Church. It’s Jesus Christ’s Church.” McCarrick Victim James Grein Gives Powerful Testimony
In Baltimore earlier this week, James Grein — formerly known only as “James” in media reports — gave a powerful testimony to an audience at the “Silence Stops Now” rally. He was introduced by Michael Voris of Church Militant. Grein …
We’re Winning. Don’t Let Them Silence Us.
This week, we saw two astonishing failures in ecclesiastical leadership as regards the clerical sex abuse crisis. First was the Vatican’s direct intervention in the U.S. Bishops’ fall meeting, stopping them from holding a vote on accountability measures. We heard …
USCCB Review Board Chairman Says Some Bishops “Must” Resign Over Abuse
Today at Catholic Culture, Phil Lawler brings to light something most of us missed in the proceedings during the US Bishops’ (USCCB) annual fall meeting. Francesco Cesareo, the chairman of the USCCB’s National Review Board for the Protection of Children and …
Request For Mass Resources From a Reader
A reader writes: Hi there-I just found your site a couple weeks ago. I am a traditional catholic that would like to do more research on our faith and why we believe what we believe. I grew up going to …
Shock, Confusion As Vatican Orders American Bishops Not to Vote on Abuse Measures
Yesterday, during the opening session of the US Bishops’ fall annual meeting, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, president of the American bishops’ conference, announced that the Holy See had intervened to stop the bishops from voting on two measures designed to tackle the …
“We’re All Gonna Die Sunday” Came Just in Time This Year
Last week, I spent day after day fighting through seemingly endless distractions in an attempt to write a piece summarizing the takeaways from the Youth Synod in Rome that lasted nearly the entire month of October. I wrote a bunch, …
60 Minutes Interviews Whistleblower Who Exposed Buffalo Diocese Abuse Cover-Up
Earlier this month, U.S. attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. served the Diocese of Buffalo, New York with a subpoena, seeking documentation about cases of clerical sexual abuse – marking one of the first cases where the U.S. federal government has …
A Failure of Trust: An Apology to Our Readers
In troubled times, one of the rarest commodities is trust. While we have never shied away from controversy here at 1P5, we’ve worked very hard to build trust with our readers. Unfortunately, after an article we published yesterday, we have …
Cupich and Wuerl Propose Alternative Sex Abuse Response Plan. Is Anyone Really Surprised?
Image courtesy of Archdiocese of Boston/Flickr (CC 2.0) It’s a story I’ve seen described as both a “shock” and a “bombshell.” But is it really? Catholic News Agency (CNA) reported yesterday that Chicago’s Cardinal Blase Cupich and the disgraced-into-resignation-but-kept-in-power-anyway Cardinal …
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