It’s Saturday morning, a few days before Christmas, and I’m working on some cards I need to send out. As is often the case, I have various social media platforms open on my computer, and I notice a post in one of the Facebook groups I’m a part of. As I click the link, I…
I remember standing outside last winter while flooding our backyard hockey rink. It was a Sunday morning, and, having already fulfilled my Mass obligation, I was intent on getting a quick flood in before lunch. Off in the distance, I heard the unmistakable clear ringing of a church bell. It was the first time I…
Part of the problem with Pope Francis’s change to the Catechism on the legitimacy of the death penalty – a decision on which he is doubling down in the face of worldwide opposition from theologically literate Catholics – is that it fundamentally misconstrues the role of a catechism. A catechism is not, and has never been…
Il segreto di Benedetto XVI. Perché è ancora papa Antonio Socci RIZZOLI 146 pages Language: Italian only $10.99 Kindle Editor’s Introduction: It is a work already being discussed in Catholic circles around the world despite the fact that it is currently available only in Italian. The latest book from Italian journalist Antonio Socci – an early…
…and he did it back in 2014. I had forgotten about this letter he wrote to La Stampa, because at the time, the theory that he had not truly abdicated was a quiet one. And it was before I started 1P5, so I don’t think we ever wrote about it here. It came up in…
Illinois attorney general Lisa Madigan released a report on Wednesday that detailed her office’s preliminary findings on clerical sex abuse across the state. Madigan says Catholic dioceses in Illinois have failed to release the names of at least 500 members of the clergy who have been made known to the dioceses as having been accused…
It never ceases to amaze me just how dark the world becomes in the month of December, as we approach the shortest day of the year, the winter solstice. I wake up in darkness, thinking it’s the middle of the night, when it’s already almost breakfast time. I look around at a dismal sky at…
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…
Throughout this month of December, emphasis from the Vatican has been placed on migration and immigrant rights at a near frenzied level. Pope Francis addressed the issue of mass migration almost every chance he had last week, especially his interest in and support of the U.N.’s vote for a “Global Compact for Immigration.” Speaking to…
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published on September 15, 2015. As internecine attacks and infighting seem to be on the rise among those who have attempted to hold the line against the Bergoglian “reforms”, we thought it would be worth re-posting. While some of the issues in play three years ago have advanced and…
For the modernist, Christmas must be stripped of its Christian meaning, separated from the religious holy day it is and always has been. It is not breaking news that traditional Christmas to secularists is the epitome of religious exclusion and consequently considered intolerant. Therefore, in the hands of secularists and modernists, it has undergone severe…
