In a recent interview with Spanish religious news weekly Vida Nueva, Cardinal Raymond Burke addressed the challenge the Church faces when seeking to fulfill her missionary call: “The Pope rightly speaks of the need to go out to the peripheries…(the) people have responded very warmly to this. But we cannot go to the peripheries empty-handed.…
The 1P5 Podcast, Episode 10 is available now! ON TODAY’S EPISODE: A rallying cry from a Catholic bishop to resist heterodoxy from within the Church. Plus: an interview with the devil. Listen here.
For our readers in the United States, the mid-term election is a huge story. A historic set of victories for Republicans across the country may be interpreted as a rejection of the immoral and oppressive policies of current office holders. By nature, 1P5 is a non-political website targeted at Catholics not just in the United…
For those of you who pay attention to details, you may have noticed that the donation-o-meter on the website made a significant jump this morning. This is not a glitch. On Friday, my wife Jamie and I met with Corey and Katherine Huber from the Fraser Family Foundation. At the end of an in-depth conversation about…
With the sad and scandalous news out of Oregon last night of Brittany Maynard’s state sanctioned suicide, thoughts turn toward the eternal consequences of such actions. The Internet and social media com boxes are full of praise and condolences for the terminally ill young woman and her grieving family. Many have offered their personal belief…
Unresolved feelings of guilt can have terribly damaging effects: self-hatred, anxiety, despair, even suicide. This holds true not only for individuals but for whole societies. The French writer Pascal Bruckner writes of Europe’s guilty conscience: “Brooding over its past crimes (slavery, imperialism, fascism, communism), Europe sees its history as a series of murders and depredations…
The Diocese of Pittsburgh announced this week that their Latin Mass Community will become a “personal quasi-parish” on Jan. 1, 2015 and take the name of St. John XXIII. Bishop David Zubik made the decision following a quarter century of steady growth for the thriving community. Bishop Zubik’s explanation of this development was posted on…
There is no question that something about Pope Francis catches the imagination of those who might otherwise have nothing to do with the Catholic Church. From the displays of humility that splash across the news to the refusal to live in the apostolic palace or follow time-honored papal traditions to the endless string of off-the-cuff…
In case you’re not a subscriber to the podcast (what are you waiting for!) you may not know that we publish it almost every Friday. Today is no exception. This one is a doozy. Steve not only addresses some pretty weird conspiracy theories about himself and 1P5, and interviews Ann Barnhardt, who sets the bar…
Last week, I was asked to participate in a symposium hosted by Regina Magazine that looked at the way social media influenced the Synod on Marriage and Family. They describe the project as follows: It’s captivating, really, and unprecedented. In what is surely a historical first, every moment of this Synod has been covered by…
We talk about spiritual warfare more than a little here at OnePeterFive, and there’s a reason for that. More and more stories have emerged showing a disturbing increase in the amount of demonic activity in the world. A story from The Blaze (hit the link for more creepy pictures) this week references a new book – The…
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