As some of you know, I have a personal blog, as it were, on the newsletter platform Substack. It’s where I go to air out my more personal and non-religious musings about the search for meaning, the pursuit of purpose, …
Category: 1P5 Blog
A Podcast on Anger
Earlier this week, my friend Joseph Sciambra asked me to be on his podcast. The topic was anger – something I know way too much about. I think it was an interesting and necessary conversation. In the event that it …
Maintenance Note – Website Work in Progress
Just a quick note: we’re doing some work on the back end of the site, and for the moment commenting is going to be a bit wonky. It’s very likely you won’t be able to post a comment at all …
Steve Skojec & Tim Gordon on The Return of the Female Deacons Question
Yesterday, I pinged Tim Gordon about an article on a new international symposium entitled, “Towards a Fundamental Theology of the Priesthood.” In it, I caught the following line: “And among the issues that will be discussed are mandatory priestly celibacy …
Easter Monday Miscellany
I hope you all had a lovely Easter and are continuing to do so this Easter Monday Morning. A few things have come to my attention over the weekend that I wanted to briefly share with you here, as they …
A Commenter on Vaccine Debate Highlights Church History in Dealing With Thorny Ethical Issues
Entirely unsurprisingly, yesterday’s article from Roberto De Mattei on the liceity of vaccines — even those derived from/tested on fetal cell lines — stirred up a lot of controversy. I should like to point out to those commenters who essentially …
The Current COVID Vaccine Debate Points to a Pandora’s Box
The post you are about to read started as a Twitter thread, but the more I think about it, the more I think it should go here too. It’s going to be largely the same as what I posted there, …
Pandemic Catholicism: Mass Attendance Numbers Have Dropped To Record Lows
1P5 regular Eric Sammons was recently named the Editor-in-Chief of Crisis Magazine. Today, he has a piece there looking at the demographic shift that has happened over the past year when it comes to Mass attendance, and it’s about what …
Abortion Wins in Argentina. Argentinian Pope Barely Lifts a Finger in Protest
In Argentina, feral women — some of them naked and likely intoxicated — are dancing in the streets in celebration of their newly legislated “right” to murder their own children: The crowd of a few thousand burst into raucous cheers …
Negativity is a Drug, And We’re Hooked
Modern life, despite all of its many comforts, is a cesspool. We know it. We can feel it. We swim in it every day — a never ending torrent of information, images, and interactions — and we never come out …
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