Many of you are followers of Dr. Taylor Marshall’s podcast series on YouTube, and are familiar with Tim Gordon, who co-hosted with Marshall for the first year of the show. What all of you may not know is that Tim and his brother Dave (who have both written articles for 1P5 – see here and…
One day, following Mass, a Polish man, in his fifties, shared a childhood story with me. It seems that he and his brother were serving Mass with another boy who, to their frustration, was being deliberately unruly and obstinate. The two brothers, no doubt higher in the pecking order of altar boys, made threatening gestures…
In this episode: The Vatican is sheltering ANOTHER accused clerical sex abuser, this time Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta of Argentina, a friend of the pope, who has been criminally charged in his home country, where prosecutors have requested his arrest by the Vatican and extradition. Also: Fr. James Martin ESS JAYY is being rumored as a…
Epistle: Colossians 1:9-14 Gospel: Matthew 24:15-25 Stir up the wills of Thy faithful people, we beseech Thee, O Lord: that more earnestly seeking the fruit of good works, they may receive more abundantly the gifts of Thy loving kindness. – From the Collect for the Twenty-Fourth and Last Sunday after Pentecost This Sunday is the…
Do they return to idols? Do they recover, taking up the spaces left free by the Church of Christ, characteristic aspects of the pagan world? A few days after the Amazon Synod, the Pachamama Synod — from the fetish depicting “Mother Earth,” which between 6 and 27 October was the center of ceremonies not far…
In this section, we will examine some Protestant objections to Mary as (1) the Woman in Gen 3:15 and (2) the Queen Mother of Israel and of the Church in Apocalypse chapter 12. Protestant Objection I: (i) I just cannot come to accept that the Woman of Genesis 3:15 is Mary. Perhaps she is Eve,…
In his 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul VI prophesied four serious consequences if contraception became embraced by the culture and the family: infidelity/moral decadence, lost respect for and use of women by their husbands, government’s abuse of power, and man’s absolute dominion. Tragically, all four prophecies have come to fruition, wreaking havoc on the…
The following letters are based on a real epistolary exchange. Dear Dr. Kwasniewski, It is obvious that things are not at all well with the Catholic Church today. This is true whether we look at the morals of the clergy and the faithful or what they believe (or don’t believe) or how the Mass is…
Many Catholics today are desperate to hear words of encouragement and direction from the bishops, the successors to the apostles. But what if I told you that we have such words from an actual apostle? The Epistle of St. Jude is written by the most obscure of the New Testament writers. The letter itself is…
The time has come to rescue our brethren, and by brethren I mean those American Catholics who have remained in the Church, and who worship God devoutly and in the only manner most of them have ever known. They may attend Mass every week and on every holy day of obligation or they may attend…
Fr. James Martin, S.J. believes that John Henry Newman may constitute a model of holiness for those with homosexual inclinations. While he draws back from concluding that Newman was certainly “gay,” he wants to proclaim the message that “a gay person (someone with a homosexual orientation, if you prefer) can be holy, even a saint.…
