This morning, Steve recorded a new podcast with Islamic Scholar and Catholic author, Andrew Bieszad, about the Paris attacks. Andrew’s assessment of what we’re seeing — and what’s coming — is a sobering one. Don’t miss it.
I wrote something brief thoughts on Facebook last night as I watched the coverage of the Paris attacks, which was later quoted by my friend Hilary on her website this morning. Seeing it again through the eyes of others, I want to share it here, because I stand by this assessment (and I’ll leave in her…
In the 500 years since its inception, the Protestant revolt has evolved from the erroneous opinions of a single mad monk into a thousand-headed hydra of heresy, with each head snapping at the other almost as frequently as at the Catholic Church itself. Nonetheless, the many heads have remained joined at one common point –…
Cardinal Bechara Boutros al-Rahi is the Patriarch of Antioch. So he is an Eastern Rite Catholic, not a Roman Catholic. But that still makes him a “full” Cardinal of the Catholic Church in all the relevant ways. Indeed, Bechara Boutros al-Rahi is one of the only 119 Cardinals under the age of 80 who could vote for…
A visualization of Teilhard de Chardin´s cosmological eschatology (SOURCE) – “‘There can be nothing more dangerous than those heretics who admit nearly the whole cycle of doctrine, and yet by one word, as with a drop of poison, infect the real and simple faith taught by our Lord and handed down by Apostolic tradition’…. The practice…
Fantastic talk on spiritual warfare from exorcist Fr. Chad Ripperger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEL-BzbFbJY
If you’ve been paying attention to coverage of the Catholic Church lately, you might have noticed a spike in the appearance of terminology borrowed from the bellicose arts, with words like “conflict,” “battle” and even “war” being used to describe the goings-on in and around the Vatican these days. While such talk is pretty standard…
I have been speaking to sources in Rome over the past week, and several interesting pieces of information have emerged. As is often the case with what goes on at the Vatican, these remain firmly planted in the realm of credible rumors, not hard facts. And while rumors are something I generally avoid trafficking in,…
A montage from the 1983 Woody Allen film, Zelig “The Christ that Harnack sees, looking back through nineteen centuries of Catholic darkness, is only the reflection of a Liberal Protestant face, seen at the bottom of a deep well.” — George Tyrrell, Christianity at the Crossroads I worked real hard for the dear old firm,I learned…
Thank you to those of you who wish to support our work here at 1P5, and who let me know today that the donate link on the page wasn’t working today. Among the various minutiae of running a website is the need to change date-specific links — like monthly fundraisers with specific financial goals —…
[NB: To understand why I refer to the synod as a “language event”, please refer to this post of mine from a couple days ago, which presents remarks made by Abp. Mark Coleridge in a press conference at the synod.] Ultimately it was hoped to make articulate speech issue from the larynx without involving the higher…
