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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The Curious Case of Maximum Beans
Allow me, if you will, to a discursive break in a Friday blog post from my normal policy of not writing about other writers. Sometimes, a person generating enough bizarre commentary warrants a response. I am referring to Massimo Faggioli. …
1P5: Reaching More People Than You Think
“I support 1P5 because of your original, authentically Catholic content. 1P5 is my favorite site, hands down, for Catholic commentary.” – Julie I have a story to tell you, and I hope you’ll stick with me, because it gets way …
Desecrating the Legacy of the American Martyr St. Jean de Brébeuf
“On March 16,” writes a modern-day Jesuit of his forebear in faith, the missionary martyr St. Jean de Brébeuf, “the Iroquois attacked the village and took the Hurons, who were mainly Christians, along with Jean and another Jesuit, Gabriel Lalement, prisoner. …
The Disastrous State of Things
Looking out across the Catholic landscape, things are pretty grim. We are losing this war. I talked to someone yesterday who is close to one of the American seminary abuse scandals and helped bring it to light. “It can’t hold …
Amazon Synod Working Document Released Today, and It Confirms There’s Trouble on the Horizon
The “Instrumentum Laboris” (working document) for the upcoming Amazon Synod was released today. Currently available only in Italian and Spanish, the 45,000-word document — as expected — contains indications that like the two family synods that came before it, this …
Social Media Deplatforming is Becoming a Major Threat to Online Truth-Tellers
Every time I post about social media, I get a predictable barrage of negative responses. Here are a few real ones: “Stay the heck off Facebook. It is the devil.” “So-called social media like Facebook and Twitter are the scourge …
Calling All Readers: 1P5 Needs You!
It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost 5 years since I started 1P5. It was about this time of the year back in 2014 that the idea for a website that would help anchor the faithful against the coming …
Una Voce Federation Confirms TLM Ban at Knights of Malta Violates Summorum Pontificum
The International Una Voce Federation (FIUV) is an organization that seeks “to foster the cultural heritage of the Latin rite of the Roman Catholic Church upon which so much of European culture, music, art, literature and architecture has been built …
Knights of Malta Coup Turns Inward; TLM Banned in Apparent Violation of Summorum Pontificum
We have written at considerable length about the tragic saga of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta in these pages over the past two years. In my most recent piece, I discussed how the recent election has highlighted how fully …
On Independence Day
Four years ago this week, in an America that could not have predicted the election of Donald Trump, I wrote a column about the failing American experiment. The title, “A Republic Not Kept Is Lost,” referred to the words of …
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