Cardinal Ouellet is going to need a burn unit. Catholic author and journalist Phil Lawler unleashed an absolutely scorching response to the Canadian cardinal’s indignant demand to know how Archbishop Viganò can “celebrate Mass and mention his [the pope’s] name in …
DC Archdiocese Reveals McCarrick Is Living on Doorstep of Elementary School
In a statement issued today, the D.C. Archdiocese has given an update on the status of former cardinal Theodore McCarrick: In late July 2018, our Holy Father Pope Francis requested that Archbishop Theodore McCarrick withdraw from all public ministry and …
A New Podcast, A New Month, A Brief Update
It’s Saturday morning after a grueling week, and I don’t expect things to slow down soon, so I’ll be brief with a couple of items of possible interest so we can all try to catch our breath: I was invited …
Where’s Wuerldo?
It seems that Cardinal Donald Wuerl, archbishop of Washington, D.C. and heir to Not-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, has disappeared. Yesterday, both Church Militant and LifeSiteNews reported that Wuerl was in hiding while “final plans for sneaking him out of the country are …
Ben Shapiro Nails It: The Media Don’t Care Sexual Abuse, Only Ideology
Ben Shapiro, in an op-ed column at Newsweek, says what many Catholics are already thinking: So, did the press leap to investigate Vigano’s claims? Did they demand answers from Pope Francis? Did we see the same type of courageous, comprehensive coverage of …
Watching This Week
Just a quick note from the bullpen: the fallout of Clergy Abuse 2.0 is going to continue to snowball this week, with developments coming at a rapid pace. As 1P5 is not, technically, a news organization, but a journal of …
The Real Infinity War
I am a guy who grew up on comic books and sci-fi. They have always played a role in my imaginative thinking, and I’ve enjoyed this recent span of movies that have brought so much of that part of my …
A Second Lincoln Seminarian Comes Forward to Detail Abuse
Within 24 hours of the exposé published by laicized priest and former seminarian of the Lincoln Diocese Peter Mitchell, the diocese admitted that its late longtime vocations director. Msgr. Leonard Kalin, had been reported for “conduct contrary to prudence and …
Lincoln Diocese Admits Kalin Wrongdoing
Yesterday, we reprinted an essay by Peter Mitchell at The American Conservative about his experiences with the seminary culture in Lincoln, Nebraska under vocations director Msgr. Leonard Kalin. Mitchell, a heterosexual priest who accepted laicization after his own admitted failures in keeping …
Heresy in the Catechism. Wolf in the Vatican. No Shepherds in Sight.
Just as the latest round of homosexual network and sex abuse allegations in the Church are reaching a fever pitch, Pope Francis – who has been eerily quiet of late – dropped a nuclear theological bomb into our midst. From Crux: …
