In a new open letter rebutting points made by Cardinal Robert Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments (CDW), pope Francis has made clear that he is not in agreement with the African cardinal’s commentary on his recent liturgical moto proprio, Magnum Principium. This public “calling out” of the cardinal responsible…
“We also find it hard,” says the apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia (37) “to make room for the consciences of the faithful, who very often respond as best they can to the Gospel amid their limitations, and are capable of carrying out their own discernment in complex situations.” It is indeed strange, amongst endless ecclesiastical discussions on “mercy”, “dialogue”, and the insistence that we…
In a report last week at Ireland’s The Independent, we learned that Bishop Brendan Leahy of Limerick wants those involved in same-sex “marriages” to attend the World Meeting of Families in Ireland next year. “We’ve had the referendum in favour of same-sex marriage,” Leahy said, “and a lot of people voted in that referendum and all are equally…
I was just looking at our website statistics. Admittedly, this is a pretty nerdy thing to do…but it’s part of my job. In just the past 30 days, 1P5 has had nearly 700,000 pageviews. Many of those were new visitors. (311 of them were from inside the Holy See!) As our regular readers have come to…
You may have noticed I’ve been more quiet than usual of late. There’s a reason for that, and of course, as I look back over the past two weeks, a story worth telling. An Unexpected Adventure A couple of weeks ago, my wife and daughters were supposed to catch an early morning plane from the…
Attention 1P5 Readers in Ohio and surrounding areas! This Saturday, October 14th, there will be a “Sanctam Catholicam Conference” at St. Sebastian Parish at 476 Mull Avenue in Akron, Ohio. The conference will kick off with Rosary & Confessions at 9:30AM, followed by a Solemn High Latin Mass at 10:15AM. The lectures & presentations portion…
In February, 2016, Pope Francis told journalists in Poland on the occasion of his meeting with bishops for World Youth Day that the ideology of “gender” is a form of “ideological colonization”. Today children – children! – are taught in school that everyone can choose his or her sex. Why are they teaching this? Because…
Image: Screengrab of the Facebook page of CNA Executive Director Alejandro Bermudez In a brief statement today, Alejandro Bermudez, executive director of the Catholic News Agency and ACI Prensa, indicated that his signature was added to the Filial Correction without his knowledge or consent. “I was surprised to see that my name has been added…
The official Filial Correction effort is restricted to a moderated list of signatories, including clergy, scholars, and other Catholics of a certain intellectual renown. This is all for the good, because it demonstrates with clarity that serious and credentialed figures are backing this effort. As some of you know, however (I mentioned it briefly in…
Image: Alex Proimos from Sydney, Australia, The Sistine Chapel (5967688938), CC BY 2.0. Because this comes up on a fairly regular basis, I wanted to just take a brief look at the source of one of the most common claims that Pope Francis was not validly elected, according to the Church’s own rules for conclaves.…
“The Great Firewall of China,” says Wikipedia, “is the combination of legislative actions and technologies enforced by the People’s Republic of China to regulate the Internet domestically. Its role in the Internet censorship in China is to block access to selected foreign websites and to slow down cross-border internet traffic.” Information is power, and in a totalitarian communist regime like China’s, one…
