I’ve been under the impression for a while now that everyone knew about Msgr. Battista Ricca, who is the director of the Casa Santa Marta (where the pope lives) and was the pope’s hand-picked liaison – his “eyes and ears” – on Vatican Bank reform. But I saw a post from a well informed Catholic…
A while back, I linked to my friend Pat Archbold’s multi-part series on “actuating the schism.” It was long. It was involved. And it wasn’t particularly optimistic. Today, I’m linking to Pat’s latest piece. It’s significantly shorter – basically a full page of bullet points. I think it’s fair to say it’s more important. And…
It’s Saturday morning, a few days before Christmas, and I’m working on some cards I need to send out. As is often the case, I have various social media platforms open on my computer, and I notice a post in one of the Facebook groups I’m a part of. As I click the link, I…
…and he did it back in 2014. I had forgotten about this letter he wrote to La Stampa, because at the time, the theory that he had not truly abdicated was a quiet one. And it was before I started 1P5, so I don’t think we ever wrote about it here. It came up in…
One of most uniquely ridiculous things about living in our staunchly atheistic world is just how much dark-age dogmatism is at heart of popular anti-Christian tropes. From the anti-science “it’s not a child it’s a clump of cells” to the resolute refusal to recognize that sex is binary at the genetic level, politically correct culture…
At his longtime blog, Creative Minority Report, 1P5 and Remnant contributor Patrick Archbold has a five-part series about “actuating” the schism in the Church. Some of you are going to want to read the whole thing, but I’d like to offer a Cliff’s Notes version here by way of introduction. In the first installment, Archbold…
In Baltimore earlier this week, James Grein — formerly known only as “James” in media reports — gave a powerful testimony to an audience at the “Silence Stops Now” rally. He was introduced by Michael Voris of Church Militant. Grein says that he was abused by McCarrick for 18 years. “Our bishops must know that…
A reader writes: Hi there-I just found your site a couple weeks ago. I am a traditional catholic that would like to do more research on our faith and why we believe what we believe. I grew up going to the Tridentine Latin Mass and my wife was brought up in the Novus Ordo mass.…
In troubled times, one of the rarest commodities is trust. While we have never shied away from controversy here at 1P5, we’ve worked very hard to build trust with our readers. Unfortunately, after an article we published yesterday, we have heard loud and clear that a number of you feel that this trust has been…
Our senior editor, Drew Belsky, already offered his thoughts on why he chose to run this morning’s piece, which ruffled some feathers. Because I believe that the value in something like this is in the discussion that follows, I’ve decided to give mine as well. About a week ago, we received an offer from the…
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 the Eucharistic Prayer?” “An excellent question,” writes Lawler. “It forces us to ask whether we…
