It was bound to happen sooner or later. A 20-year-old woman in Arizona — who is, and I’m not making this up, dating a guy named “Lücifer” — has gone to a crowd-funding website to raise money for her abortion. She is …
Category: 1P5 Blog
Will Cardinal Müller Meet With the SSPX?
In a report that seems not 100% verifiable is now confirmed, the National Catholic Register has picked up a story that there is a September 21 meeting date between Cardinal Müller, head of the CDF, and Bishop Fellay, superior general of the Society of …
Want an Amazing Parish? Begin with the Liturgy.
Last week approximately 500 Catholic leaders and their pastors from around the country gathered in Denver, Colorado for the first Amazing Parish conference to “brainstorm and swap ideas about improving parish life.” As reported by the Catholic News Agency: “The …
We’re Taking the Day Off. Sort of.
For those of our readers outside the United States, you may not know that today is Labor Day – a national holiday. It just so happens that it comes at the end of our very first month online. It’s been a good month. …
Breaking: Imminent Terror Attack Threat on Southern US Border
As the publisher of OnePeterFive, I make the editorial decisions on which topics to cover to further our vision of Catholic restoration. When we launched on August 1st, I intended to run a brief series educational pieces on Islam after some initial collaboration …
Episode 2 of the Podcast is Now Available
Although it shows up on the homepage and to subscribers through iTunes, etc., the 1P5 Podcast is conspicuously absent from our site’s RSS feed. I’ll be working to find a solution to that for next week. Until then, here’s a …
Beheadings and the Passion of John the Baptist
In his 2002 book “The New Persecuted”, Italian journalist Antonio Socci reported that two thirds of the Christians martyred in history were in the twentieth century. Persecution of Christians by German National Socialism, atheistic Communism and radical Islam made …
USCCB Loses Its Head
It is a curious conceit of an obtuse generation that it believes itself to be committed to modernity, embodied by devotion to science and reason, and yet is so irrevocably immutable to evidence. The spiritual (but not religious) Mecca of modernity …
The Swimming Pool Mass: A Catholic Rorschach Test
The internet and social media has paid a good deal of attention recently to the now infamous “poolside Mass” offered at LaSalle College High School in suburban Philadelphia for the boys water polo team. The image of young, shirtless, …
ISIS: Surprisingly Sophisticated, Extremely Well-Funded
In a very interesting infographic on Medium, Matter Magazine offers us a paint by numbers assessment of the ISIS threat. Among other things, the Islamic State has a shocking amount of money — $2 BILLION dollars — four times as much …