As I said in a comment earlier this morning, what we are trying to provide here with our articles on the status of the papacy is clarity in the midst of escalating confusion. Just as Amoris Laetitia muddied the waters …
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Bishop Schneider Obtains Entirely Unhelpful Peronist Response From Francis on “Diversity of Religions”
I don’t know about all of you, but I am so unbelievably sick and tired of being treated as though we’re all a bunch of complete idiots. And when I see good bishops and priests playing games of mental Twister …
If You Always Wanted to Read The Dictator Pope…
…but never quite found the time, take yourself over to Crisis Magazine and read the excellent overview of the Francis Pontificate from Julia Meloni entitled, Francis Allies Reveal Their Plans for Revolutionary Change. Here’s an excerpt, and yes, it’s all this …
Two Critical Lessons From Mister McCarrick
Just because “Uncle” Ted McCarrick has been laicized and made a scapegoat on behalf of a Vatican that continues to demonstrate it’s anything but serious about clerical abuse, it doesn’t mean there’s nothing left we can learn from him. Here, …
Caveat Lector: New Book Claiming 80% of Vatican Clergy Are Gay Comes With a Catch
There’s a new book coming out to coincide with the sex abuse summit in Rome, and it’s already all the buzz on a number of Catholic websites. Entitled, In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy [and known as “Sodom” …
A New Podcast From Two 1P5 Contributors
We’re blessed here to have a lot of top-notch contributors, and one of our regulars is Stefanie Nicholas (see her articles here), who I just did a podcast with a couple weeks ago. One of our newest writers, John Hirschauer, …
Six Years Later: Reflecting on the Papal Abdication That Changed the Church Forever
Six years ago today, I was driving to work and I heard a news story on the local radio about Pope Benedict XVI’s announcement that he was going to abdicate. I remember where I was: driving North on Route 1 …
Our Dangerous Addiction
This blog post isn’t, properly speaking, about the Church or Catholic life. But it is about life for people in 2019, and it is relevant to every single person reading this right now. Every single one. I’ve mentioned the insights …
This Is What Modern-Day Satanism Looks Like
Yesterday, on the 46th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, New York Senate Democrats passed a bill known as the Reproductive Health Act, which removes most restrictions on abortions after 24 weeks – all the way until birth. According …
Clerical Dishonesty is Not Pretty
I was born in 1977 to young parents, and I grew up in a house full of vinyl albums from the preceding two decades and a box full of cassettes. When I wasn’t listening to the Beatles’ Greatest Hits or …