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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1P5 Podcast Ep. #72 – The Pope on Gay Civil Unions & Audience Q&A
On this episode, Steve dives into and tries to make sense of the controversy surrounding Pope Francis’s comments on gay civil unions, as well as the story the controversy has managed to cover for: a two-year extension of the Vatican’s …
Pope Francis Comes Out in Support of Civil Unions for Homosexual Couples
In a new documentary about Pope Francis that premiered in Rome this week, the pope offers new comments, on camera, in support of civil unions for homosexuals. As reported by CNA: “Homosexuals have a right to be a part of …
Italian Philosopher: What if Francis Were the Last Pope of the Roman Catholic Tradition, & a Different Christianity Were Being Born?
Salvatore Natoli is an Italian philosopher, academic, and author of some renown. Today, we’ve learned that he has some noteworthy opinions on the pope’s new encyclical. First, some background: Natoli, born in 1942, is a product of Catholic higher education …
Does Pope Francis Think the Death Penalty is Intrinsically Evil?
Since the release of Fratelli Tutti a few days ago, the debate over the Church’s re-imagined position on the death penalty — covered in some depth in the new encyclical — has resumed with gusto. And the questions that surround …
Why the Death Penalty Teaching Change Is a Perfect Doctrinal Trojan Horse
I’ve already written at length about the longstanding Catholic teaching about the death penalty and why Pope Francis is wrong in his attempts to change it. I won’t, therefore, rehash those arguments here. For the purposes of this particular debate, …
Did Disgraced Cardinal Becciu Pay to Have Cardinal Pell Convicted?
Let me start by answering the question posed in the headline: we don’t know. YET. But things are looking pretty suspicious. I’ll get to that in more detail in just a bit. First, let’s rewind a little bit to set …
Pope’s New Encyclical Follows Spirit of Laudato Si: It Recycles The Same Old Themes
We’ve entered one of those moments again where there’s a a flurry of activity in the Church, and hardly enough time to analyze it in depth. To top it off, I’m feeling like I’m coming down with something and running …
Cardinal Müller: U.S. Election Will Determine Future of Democracy & Human Rights for Decades
In recent days, we’ve seen multiple pieces of political commentary from Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, who has stated that, in his view, President Trump has a “decisive” mission “in the epochal confrontation that has been unfolding in recent months.” Viganò …
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 …
Documentary Trailer for Francesco Reveals a Deeper, More Dangerous Agenda
Catholics have been brawling for about a week now over the pope’s comments, released in the new documentary Francesco, in support of homosexual civil unions. Some stragglers, apparently immune to reality and all its pomps, are still in denial over …
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