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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A Hard Road, Better Traveled Together
A couple of months back, I made the decision that 1P5 needed to get re-focused. I felt that were off course, and had fallen somewhat into the trap of being too repetitive, even stagnant. Statistically, I saw engagement with our …
1P5 Podcast Ep. 70 – Becciu, The Heretic Pope, Infallibility, & Listener Questions, Oh My!
The title says it all, but here goes on a synopsis: It’s been a while since we’ve done a video, and today Steve drinks Irish whiskey while riffing on the fall of Cardinal Becciu, Francis embracing heresy, Infallibility, tribalism, and …
Cardinal Becciu, Top Vatican Hatchet Man, Has Unexpectedly Resigned
Allow me to briefly bury the lede. I’ve often said that I’m not a journalist, I’m a commentator, and as such, I don’t make an attempt to hide my bias in the interest of the expected, but in most cases …
Hope From the Depths of Our Distance From God
“There seems to be a new normal where sin has become almost inevitable for most of us … For some reason — which in part due to us, in part due to the wisdom of God — the new normal …
Mass: An Obligation Until It Isn’t (But Then It Is Again)
Over at Catholic Culture, Phil Lawler has a pretty devastating take on the rather convenient wielding of the threat of mortal sin by Archbishop Jerome Listecki of Milwaukee, who has just reinstated the Sunday obligation in his diocese: Starting this …
Together. For the Better. Come What May.
I’ve got to be honest, I absolutely agonized over writing my piece, No More Platitudes: It’s Time to Take a Hard Look at the Crisis of Catholicism. I started writing it weeks ago. Well, I should say, I wrote the first draft …
No More Platitudes: It’s Time to Take a Hard Look at the Crisis of Catholicism
A few years ago, my wife looked at me, after one of my rants about how bad things were getting in the Church, and asked me a simple question: “If this makes you so miserable, why are you still doing …
Vatican: It Is Urgent That The Faithful Return To Mass As Soon As Possible
In a new directive from Cardinal Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation For Divine Worship and the Sacraments, published with the approval of Pope Francis, Catholics are urged to recognize that virtual participation in the liturgy and the life of the …
9/11: We Have Forgotten
We have carried the torch. We have rebuilt. And we have done what we said we never would: we have forgotten. Today, on the 19th anniversary of the worst terrorist attack in American history, the internet and news channels will …
The Wages of Homosexuality: Disease, Destruction, and Death
As a teenager in the 90s, going to the March for Life, I was struck — and, frankly, disturbed — by the presence certain angry, usually white-haired men, who stood on the sides of Constitution Avenue with giant posters of …
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