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…
The pope has finally accepted the resignation of Bishop Juan Barros, his apointee to run the Diocese of Osorno in Chile, who has been accused for years of being complicit in clerical sexual abuse. But it wasn’t an easy path to get here, and there are still questions left unanswered. Here’s the latest 1P5 Minute:
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.
Was going to write a post about this. Decided a quick video would be faster on a Friday afternoon. Please feel free to share your own thoughts in the comments. Have a good weekend, everyone! Transcript [May contain errors or typos]: [00:00:10] Hi everyone, Steve Skojec here. And it’s Friday afternoon as I record this…
We already gave some of the history of today’s feast day. Now watch archival footage of Pope Pius XII proclaiming the dogma of Mary’s Assumption into heaven:
On the June 23rd episode of The World Over With Raymond Arroyo, we witnessed one of the best (if not the best) discussions of papal impropriety in mainstream Catholic news. Again and again, Arroyo shows us that he gets it. And his guests (even with Robert Royal’s tendency to softpedal things) are right there with him. If…
A woman posting under the name “Farrah Prudence” says she grew up Muslim in the Middle East, and she’s tired of the true nature of Islam being misrepresented. This is worth 8 minutes of your time: If you’d like to read the texts she recommends, we’ve already linked to them in our post, Islam 101:…
Fantastic talk on spiritual warfare from exorcist Fr. Chad Ripperger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEL-BzbFbJY
A powerful and thought-provoking video that offers a Christian response to ISIS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSv4vBcFyvo?rel=0 UPDATE (4/21/15 @ 9:29AM): Last night, I was granted an exclusive interview with Michael Chang, the creator of this video. You can read it here.
Haircuts for the homeless show an amazing transformation, reminding us that buried beneath our imperfections, sins, and choices, we all have human dignity. Moving and inspiring video.
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