When asked last year about the possibility of female ordination in the Catholic Church, Pope Francis answered with a clarity and directness that has at times eluded him during his papacy: “With regards to the ordination of women, the church has spoken and says no. Pope John Paul said so with a formula that was…
Over at the Register today, 1P5 contributor Pat Archbold has a thing about “The Hermeneutic of Continuity”: I used to be a big fan of the “Hermeneutic of Reform in Continuity,” or as commonly shortened, the “hermeneutic of continuity.” But I think that perhaps its day has passed. For those unfamiliar, a hermeneutic is a…
Yesterday, I wrote about the strange case of disappearing devotions in the post-conciliar era. I mentioned that I had put in a call to Church of the Immaculate Conception to see what had happened to the Purgatorian Society that had formerly been based there. Last night, I got a call back. The priest I spoke…
As if the synod itself didn’t create enough confusion, news broke this week that the English translation of the final synod relatio left out something very significant. LifeSiteNews Rome Correspondent and 1P5 Contributor Hilary White reports: Just at first glance, and without looking it up on Google Translate, what is the difference between these two passages…
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…
