The Austrian cardinal just gave an interview to an Austrian TV channel in which he now claims that the ordination of female priests is not permissible. However, women might somehow still be admitted to the first stage of sacramental ordination: namely, the diaconate. Speaking (at minute 34) with a journalist from the TV channel oe24.at…
Today, on 20 June, Reuters published a new interview with Pope Francis. Although the interview is making headlines because of the Pope’s criticism of President Donald Trump’s immigration policy, it also contains another controversial assertion: the pope surprisingly now claims that he only heard about the Dubia (concerning his document Amoris Laetitia) “from the newspapers”…
An allegation of sexual abuse half a century ago has led to the removal from public ministry of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Archbishop Emeritus of Washington, DC. The disciplinary action was taken against him by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican Secretary of State, on behalf of Pope Francis. McCarrick famously recounted, in a 2013 talk at…
In a new interview, Bishop Athanasius Schneider discusses the working document of the upcoming 2019 Pan-Amazon Synod and rejects the idea of ordaining married men. He argues that priestly continence is a Church tradition that goes back to Apostolic times. As to the role of women, he fears that the Church might soon imitate the…
Hey, there’s a new 1P5 Minute! In today’s episode, Steve addresses some questions about the name of the show, then talks about the pope’s recent comments about dictatorships beginning through corruption of media. ALSO: the Vatican is getting cozy with the term LGBT, and it’s beginning to look like a prominent theme at the World…
In just a month and a half, OnePeterFive will have been online for four years. Can you believe it? In some ways, it seems as though it’s been much longer than that. In others, it’s hard to believe so much time has already gone by. I recently watched a video I had put up on…
A new scandal is continuing to develop for Pope Francis, regarding one of the men he plans to make a cardinal at the 29 June consistory. The Bolivian bishops’ conference has just distanced itself from one of their own, Bishop Toribio Ticona Porco, whom he announced as a cardinal-designate last month. The Bolivian bishops now…
Well, we had a few “whoops” moments in yesterday’s episode. Steve made a fatal error: he attempted Math. Today he corrects the mistakes in yesterday’s episode, and provides some additional data on the state of the Church.
Today, on 15 June, there is a stunning story breaking in Austria. The Austrian magazine NEWS published a report that might turn out to be devastating for the Catholic Church in Austria, especially for its President, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, as well as for Austria’s Papal Nuncio, Archbishop Peter Stephan Zurbriggen. Bishop Alois Schwarz is said…
The German progressivist bishops are unanimously indignant and disappointed about the recent CDF letter from Archbishop Ladaria which told them not to make public their controversial intercommunion guidelines. In a new interview, a Vatican specialist explains that there is, indeed, a civil war in the Church and that the Pope himself had to make a…
The Vatican just released some data about growth in the Church over the past few years, and the results aren’t promising. Steve talks about the numbers in this edition of the 1P5 Minute. Original Vatican data available here. (Sorry, only available in Italian at the moment.) ALSO: We’ve had some requests to feed the 1P5 Minute…
