At Crisis Magazine, Austin Ruse has a piece that is, I think it’s fair to say, unfortunately necessary. First, he lays out the facts of the martyrdom of St. Maria Goretti, her canonization, and the way she has been characterized by two popes. Quoting Pope John Paul II on the centennary of Maria Goretti’s death,…
One of the rules of effective communication is not to say things when you’re angry. But I can’t stop being angry. Every day there is an endless parade of stupidity, malice, debauchery, and violence that assaults our senses and steals our peace. This week, I’ve been helping an elderly family member with a move, and…
At Catholic World Report, Nick Bottom imagines what would happen if Pope Francis applied his moral standards — as laid out in Amoris Laetitia — to some of his own statements. The result is quite clever…I might even go so far as to say brilliant. The juxtaposition of the equivocations in AL in another context really create clarity…
It’s an impressive lineup. From Bishop Athanasius Schneider and Fr. Linus Clovis to various heads of right-to-life organizations and other marriage and family apostolates around the world, 16 life and family leaders have joined in a video appeal to Pope Francis to make right the wrongs perpetrated by Amoris Laetitia. A teaser of the video can be…
In a press release issued today, an international group of “Catholic academics and pastors” states that they have petitioned Rome to address serious theological problems with the post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation, Amoris Laetitia. Among the 45 signatories are Catholic prelates, scholars, professors, authors, and clergy from various pontifical universities, seminaries, colleges, theological institutes, religious orders, and…
I’ve never met Frank Walker, but I owe him a lot. In March of 2014, I had never heard of Pewsitter. All of a sudden, though, people started telling me that they had linked to something on my personal blog, when 1P5 was still just a tickle in the back of my brain. Sure enough,…
Ladies and gentlemen, I am thrilled to report to you that thanks to your contributions, combined with the generous matching donation of $5,000 an anonymous donor, we have hit our goal of $10,000 for the month of June! (In fact, we went a little bit over.) If I’m not mistaken, it’s only the second time…
In March of this year, as the Catholic world mourned the death of Mother Mary Angelica of the Annunciation — Mother Angelica as she was known to the viewers of the television network she founded, EWTN — I wrote an essay that was part tribute, part lamentation, concerning what I saw as EWTN’s drift away…
On the June 23rd episode of The World Over With Raymond Arroyo, we witnessed one of the best (if not the best) discussions of papal impropriety in mainstream Catholic news. Again and again, Arroyo shows us that he gets it. And his guests (even with Robert Royal’s tendency to softpedal things) are right there with him. If…
Okay ladies and gents, here’s the deal: yesterday, I turned comments off for a while. You may have noticed that new posts today are accepting comments, while old ones are still locked. The law of gradualism has found its way even to these sterling shores. So far, so good. I’m now going to re-open comments…
Some of you may have already noticed that comments on all of our posts are closed. This is not a glitch. I decided it was time for a break. Just since May 1, our website has received 7,502 comments on 112 posts. That’s an average of almost 67 comments per post, though some have none…
