Yesterday, the question of whether to defund Planned Parenthood — which receives half a billion dollars annually from the taxpayers so they can dismember children — was put to a vote in the U.S. Senate. The measure was, as we all expected despite our hopes and prayers, defeated. In case you were wondering how your…
In recent weeks we have seen the ugly truth of what a post-Christian America looks like. From the unveiling of a statue of Baphomet by Satanists in Detroit last weekend, to the release of multiple undercover videos of Planned Parenthood sorting through aborted babies and negotiating the sale of their parts, Americans have witnessed nothing…
I don’t know about all of you, but I’m completely disgusted with the ever-increasing scandals infesting the Catholic Church. Day after day we’re inundated with news that is stomach-turning, all of it met with deafening silence from those with the power to do something about it, whether in the local see or in Rome. The New York Archdiocese…
One of the editorial choices I’ve made here at 1P5 is not to open the site up to prayer requests for publication. The reason is that so many of us are in need of prayers so much of the time that it would be impossible to actually respond to all the requests. (I’m working on…
I received an email this morning from John J. O’Sullivan (full disclosure – John is a friend of mine) who attended the rally yesterday evening in Manhattan to save the icons at The Church of Our Saviour. He reports: There was a small rag-tag group of Catholics who stood in front of the residence of Cardinal Dolan.…
Say what you like about Fox News–and I should confess that opinions among my Catholic friends are mixed at best–they have a much greater proportion of Christians among their broadcasters and journalists than any other major network. Among other things, this in part leads them to do things no other network would. Here is Brit Hume,…
In the 1976 classic satirical film “Network”, television anchorman Howard Beale (brilliantly played by Peter Finch in an Oscar winning performance) exhorts his viewing audience to lose their apathy and to get angry about the state of affairs in the country: “I want you to get up right now. Sit up. Go to your windows.…
Bishop Johan Bonny was back in the news last week following his selection by the Vatican as a participant at the upcoming Synod on the Family in Rome. Bishop Bonny, you may recall, said the following back in December: “We have to look inside the Church for a formal recognition of the kind of interpersonal…
If you’re a Catholic and you’re on Facebook, you’ve probably seen the sponsored posts. If you’re a person living in the DC Metro area, you’ve probably heard the radio ads, seen the posters at bus stops, or maybe even the full-page ad in the Washington Post. These ads, from a San Francisco-based non profit called the…
I don’t know what God has in mind here, but there has been an unnervingly close series of parallels between the popes and the U.S. presidents, at least since World War II. The following eerie coincidences between papal and presidential reigns strikes me as somehow significant. Make of them what you will… [one_half padding=”0px 20px…
I’m starting to think our national religion is Moloch worship. We sacrifice children to a demon, and rather than the blessings we would obtain from worshipping the True God, we have instead called down curses upon us. In a horrifying investigative story that came out today, a hidden-camera investigation exposes the fetal tissue trafficking industry…
