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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1P5 Minute Ep. 13 – Amazonian Idols Thrown in the Tiber!
Early this morning, some Catholic men entered St. Maria in Traspontina, near the Vatican, grabbed several of the ugly wooden fertility statues folks have identified as the Andean fertility goddess and pan-amazonian Mother Earth icon Pachamama, and tossed them into …
“If I Am One Day a Saint, I Know that My Journey Out of Indifference Began with You.”
I recently received an email from a reader, and it was one of the most inspiring, hopeful things I’ve seen in a long time. “My name is Cameron,” the reader writes. “I’m a recent college graduate and a rural grade …
1P5’s Stefanie Nicholas Shares Her Conversion Story at the 2019 Fatima Youth Conference
You may have already seen the podcast interview I did with my friend and 1P5 contributor Stefanie Nicholas earlier this year, during which we discussed her conversion story, in which I am humbled to have been given the grace to …
The Evidence Suggests The Francis-Scalfari Connection is No Accident
Since the news broke early this week that the nonegenarian atheist socialist editor of Italy’s La Repubblica, Eugenio Scalfari, claimed that Pope Francis told him during one of their many conversations that he did not believe Jesus was God, the Catholic …
It’s Past Time for Theologians, Canonists, Bishops, and Cardinals to Weigh in on the Status of the Papacy
It was once the sort of question that was shared in hushed tones after a few drinks, back in the early days of the pontificate when only a few people seemed to be aware just how bad things were. “What …
Scalfari on the Pope, Translated
We have updated our original piece about Eugenio Scalfari’s latest bombshell, in which he claims that in his presence, Pope Francis denied the divinity of Jesus. In the updated version, we have included a human translation of the section of …
Scalfari, Friend of Francis, Claims Pope Believes Jesus Was “Not a God At All”
Amidst the raging debate over what was at best a syncretistic (and at worst an overtly pagan) opening ceremony for the Amazon Synod, an early push for ending clerical celibacy from Cardinal Hummes, cringe-inducing virtue-signaling from members of the Catholic …
A Pre-Synod Brain Dump
I hope you’ll pardon me if I offer some commentary that is a bit more stream-of-consciousness than usual. The storm is gathering, but life goes on. I’ve had a couple of days this week, mostly related to my children and …
James Martin and the Pope: Message Received
On Monday, September 30, Pope Francis — the first Jesuit pope — sat down in the library of the Apostolic Palace with fellow Jesuit Fr. James Martin for a half-hour private audience. Gerard O’Connell, writing for the Jesuit-run America magazine, says, “It was their …
The Vatican’s Continuing Idolatry Problem
At a ceremony in the Vatican gardens leading up to the Amazon Synod, a very strange ritual unfolded. In addition to more ecological symbolism than you could shake a shrinking polar ice cap at, we saw some disturbing scenes, including …
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