Description: Steve looks at a number of developments concerning the Amazon Synod as the meeting of bishops on the Pan-Amazon region reaches the halfway point. NOTE: If you’d like to see a video of this podcast, it is now available on our YouTube channel (don’t forget to subscribe) or just play the embedded video below: [powerpress] Related Links: A…
Description: After a brief discussion about the ongoing release of lists of clerical abusers,1P5 Contributor Stefanie Nicholas stops by the podcast today to talk about her rapid and unexpected conversion to Catholicism in the midst of the Church’s great crisis. NOTE: If you’d like to see a video of this podcast, it is now available on…
Description: New research from Pew shows that Europe has dropped drastically in its overall Catholic population vs. the world. In 1910, Europe had 65% of the world’s Catholics. In 2019, it’s only 24%. Steve talk about what that means. PLUS: 1P5 Contributor Bree Dail reports from Washington DC about this year’s March for Life. NOTE: If you’d…
Description: With over 900 comments since it was published last Friday, Ryan Grant’s article “Rise of the Benevacantists: Who is Pope?” is the most commented-upon post in 1P5’s nearly five-year history. But why? What does the controversy around the question of who is pope underscore? Why are we seeing more and more internecine fighting among Catholics…
On Friday, May 24th, the Irish people voted overwhelmingly to remove the legal protection for the unborn that was written into their Constitution in 1983. Today, we attempt to deconstruct that vote and figure out what happened to one of history's great Catholic nations. Guests C.J. Doyle, Executive Director of the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts…
Providence college student Michael Smalanskas has received new threats about the pro-marriage bulletin board he put up earlier this year, and the administration has only made things worse. Also: former gay man Joseph Sciambra talks about the harm done by Pope Francis and his "born gay" remarks.
Guests: Michael Smalanskas, senior Theology & Philosophy student and Resident Advisor at Providence College; Dr. James Keating, Associate Professor of Theology and Faculty Adviser at Providence College. Description: Michael Smalanskas, a senior at the Dominican-run Providence College in Rhode Island, was required as a dormitory Resident Advisor to keep a bulletin board updated with informational materials of…
Guests: Hilary White, Catholic journalist and blogger; Michael Hichborn, President of The Lepanto Institute; Gabriel Ariza, Founding Editor of InfoVaticana.com. Description: The letter from Pope Benedict praising Pope Francis was written in response to a request that he write something about a new 11-volume set of books on the theology of Pope Francis. Even before the photo…
Guests: Dr. John Joy, Co-Founder and President of the St. Albert the Great Center for Scholastic studies, and author of the forthcoming book, On the Ordinary and Extraordinary Magisterium from Joseph Kleutgen to the Second Vatican Council, and Dr. Michael Sirilla, Director of Graduate Theology at Franciscan University of Steubenville and author of The Ideal Bishop: Aquinas’s Commentaries…
Guest: Eric Sammons, Catholic writer and author of six books, including The Old Evangelization: How to Spread the Faith Like Jesus Did. Description: What is evangelization? What does it mean to evangelize? What are the goals and means to be successful in carrying out the Great Commission? In this epsiode, Steve talks to Eric Sammons, who…
Guest: Michael Hichborn, founder and president of The Lepanto Institute. Description: The Catholic Church remains the largest charitable organization in the world, but are all of its programs and outreach efforts abiding by the Catholic moral and ethical framework? As Michael Hichborn has investigated the Church’s charitable work through groups like the Catholic Campaign for Human…
