Author: Steve Skojec

“One of the Worst Official Documents Drafted in Church History”
You may be aware that a mid-synod report — referred to as a “Relatio post disceptationem” — was released today. Voice of the Family (VoF), self-described as “an international coalition of pro-family groups”, is having none of it. John Smeaton, co-founder …

Cardinal Raymond Burke on the Synod on the Family with Raymond Arroyo
Steve SkojecSteve Skojec is the Founding Publisher 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 …

Podcast Episode 7 – Better Late than Never
If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? If a Friday podcast doesn’t get posted until Sunday, is it still a Friday podcast? We don’t usually post on …

1P5 Podcast – Episode 7: The Holy League
[powerpress] ON TODAY’S EPISODE: Steve riffs on the synod, and on the question everyone would like an answer to: why do heretics have a seat at the table? Also, an interview with Fr. Richard Heilman about the launch of his upcoming apostolate, the …

Why is the Church’s Largest Charitable Organization Involved With Communist, Pro-Abortion Activism?
Caritas Internationalis is the largest social justice organization in the Catholic Church. It serves as a confederation of Catholic social justice and charitable organizations around the world. According to the history presented on the Caritas website: The Church describes Caritas …

Did Jesus Bring a Stillborn Baby to Back to Life?
Have you ever wondered how much of Jesus’s public ministry is not reflected in the Gospels? We already know that a good deal of His earthly life was not recorded. But even the sections on his active ministry seem, as far as …

Synod Starts This Weekend; 1P5 Podcast is Out; Fundraising Continues!
It’s officially October, which means a yard full of leaves, pumpkin spice everything, and the Synod on Marriage and Family starts on Sunday in Rome and runs through October 19th. There are already some doctrinal clashes going in, so please …

The Troubling Case of Cardinal Kasper
“And I say to you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that shall marry her that is put away, committeth adultery.” – Jesus (Matthew 19:9) “It’s …

1P5 Podcast – Episode 6: Catholic Dads Roundtable
[powerpress] ON TODAY’S EPISODE: A roundtable discussion with 1P5 contributors Elliot Bougis and Scott Broadway. Battling Cardinals heading into the Synod on Marriage and Family; Synodal expectations; Previous Vatican statements on communion for the divorced and remarried; The questionable …

Unseen Titans: The Angels Who Guard and Keep Us
For he hath given his angels charge over thee; to keep thee in all thy ways. In their hands they shall bear thee up: lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. Thou shalt walk upon the asp and the basilisk: and …