The big Catholic story making the rounds today is that a papal blessing was given to an author of children’s books that promote homosexuality and gender theory. Given in such a way that it allegedly implied some form of approval from the Holy Father. As you might expect, this is more than a little controversial. And as…
In his intriguing and informative book Sin, Shame and Secrets: A True Story of the Murder of a Nun, the Conviction of a Priest, and the Cover-up in the Catholic Church, award-winning journalist and author David Yonke —who’s “now working full time as the editor of The News-Messenger in Fremont and the News Herald in…
In 2010, Michael Voris gave a presentation to a live audience on the Church Militant program, Catholic Investigative Agency. It was about the inception of the Novus Ordo Missae, the characters behind its creation, the ideological underpinnings of the new liturgy, and the potentially damaging effects it might have on the Catholic Faith of those…
Filed under: things you never thought you’d hear a pope say. Ever. In his weekly Angelus address on Sunday, Pope Francis said that Jesus’ words are sometimes hard to accept, that they “rock our world” and challenge our secular mentality, because he doesn’t offer immediate success but a longer road to true happiness. Referring to the…
Earlier this year, a petition was started. It’s purpose was simple: it asks the Holy Father to calm the fears of Catholics around the world with a simple public assurance that those forces which are seeking to undermine Christ’s teaching on marriage will not prevail at the conclusion of the two-year Extraordinary Synod on Marriage and Family. The…
On our Facebook page, a very upset (former) reader had some harsh words for us about the recent discussion of the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X in the pages of 1P5. She wrote: Fr Paul Nicholson was correct. Very disappointed with your embrace of SSPX. I think you should go on a retreat and pray about…
Bishop Athanasius Schneider is, without question, the most vocal defender of Catholic orthodoxy in the Church hierarchy today. So it’s a very good thing that despite being the Auxiliary bishop of a diocese (Astana) in a country (Kazakhstan) few Westerners have ever heard of, he has been a very high-profile presence in Western media over the…
My heart is broken. There is a family — the Kazas — who live just down the road from us. They are a large Catholic family, with eleven children. I’ve never met them, but some of their children went to school with some of our children. As with many large Catholic families, we travel in…
I’ve got a long-standing and deep dislike for graphic abortion photos. I remember as a teen, going to the March for Life, and having a certain breed of angry old men standing on the sidelines with huge posters of dismembered, bloody babies, yelling that abortion was murder. We know! I would think to myself. Why do you…
Last week, I told you about Archbishop Blase Cupich from Chicago – about his rather unfortunate track record as a Catholic prelate, his discomfort with the Traditional Mass and the pro-life movement, and how that uneasiness doesn’t extend to pro-abortion politicians. I then told you about how Archbishop Cupich drew direct moral equivalency between dismembering…
Archbishop Blase Cupich has made some troubling choices over the years. As the Bishop of Rapid City, South Dakota, he decided to bar the parishioners of the local Latin Mass parish from entering the church during the Easter Triduum so that he could provide “an opportunity on an annual basis for us to all worship together, for one moment…
