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.
Author: Steve Skojec
Just One Little Push…
As the week — and the month — wind to a close, I wanted to thank you all once again for your readership of 1P5. We know that you have more options than ever for good Catholic news and commentary, …
Why Liturgy Really is the Key to Everything
There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us. – Saint Jean-Marie Vianney The first time I walked through the doors of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, I was overcome. …
For the Regular Catholic Curious About Tradition
Dear Fellow Catholic, I know the past few months – really, the past few years – have been pretty tough. With the situation at your local parish changing during the pandemic, perhaps you’ve been livestreaming a Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) …
Review: Latin Mass Companion From Biretta Books
Latin Mass Companion – A New, Easy To Follow Missal Biretta Books 152 Pages $15 individual; Discounts applied to bulk orders A few weeks back, I was offered a review copy of the new Latin Mass Companion from Biretta Books …
Suffering: The Only Way Out is Through
“We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” ― C.S. Lewis, …
A Homily I Needed to Hear: Pray Without Ceasing
Yesterday, I caught the homily for the XI Sunday After Pentecost from my friend Dom Daniel Augustin Oppenheimer, prior of the Canons Regular of the New Jerusalem. (They’re livestreaming all their Masses and some Vespers these days, in case you’re …
The Global 1P5 Community – In Pictures
Two days ago, on a bit of a whim, I asked our readers to send in photos of where they live, so we could all enjoy a sense of the truly global 1P5 Community, and all the fascinating people and …
Calling All 1P5ers – Send Us Your Photos!
We know that many of you are feeling disconnected from your communities these days – we are too. And the thought occurred to me that even though we’re all over the world, 1P5 readers truly do form a community of …
Mercy is for Sinners
I have a love-hate relationship with confession. I hate it because it’s never very comfortable to admit the stupid, shameful, ridiculous things I do. I wait in the line with a head full of exaggeration, thinking of myself like a …
The Church in Crisis Is Like The Light of a Dying Star
Over at his blog at The American Conservative, Rod Dreher shares a couple of emails from readers about their experiences in the Catholic Church in both Canada and the United States. The stories are awful, but they’re not surprising. The …
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