On 25 May, Archbishop Luis Ladaria, the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), wrote a letter to Cardinal Reinhard Marx and the German bishops. He told the German bishops’ conference not to publish their pastoral …
Cdl. Woelki in Emotional Speech: Intercommunion Debate is About Life, Death
Last Thursday, on the Feast of Corpus Christi, Cardinal Rainer Woelki, one of the seven German bishops who opposed the new German intercommunion handout allowing for some Protestant spouses of Catholics to receive Holy Communion, gave a moving speech at the …
Ep. 48 – Understanding the Irish Abortion Vote
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 …
Report from Rome: What Do Vatican Officials Think to Gain in their Agreement with China? (And What Will Chinese Catholics Lose?)
Population Research Institute President and China Expert Steven Mosher went to Rome to warn the Vatican that under the rapidly growing power and religious persecution of the Jinping regime, any agreement between the Vatican and Beijing would be seen by …
Eating Fire and Spirit: The Most Wondrous of All God’s Gifts
Imagine eating the sun—and imagine you could do it without perishing. What would happen? You would receive into your body the source of light and warmth. You would have within you all the light and heat that you could possibly …
UPDATED | Report: “Married” Bolivian Bishop Will Be Made Cardinal by Pope Francis
In a news report that comes to us from our Spanish-language partners Adelante la Fe, OnePeterFive has learned that Bishop Toribio Ticona — an 81-year-old Bolivian prelate who is alleged to be living with a woman as husband and wife …
Ireland Chooses Death
Editor’s note: it is not our usual policy to print an entire press release in full, but rarely have we seen one so expertly hit the mark. Our thanks to the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts and their executive director …
Memorial Day
It’s Memorial Day here in the United States today, and as is human nature, we use our holidays to get together with family, to cook and enjoy good food and drink, and to treat the day of rest we have …
Vatican Theologian: German Intercommunion Plan is “Unwise” and “Defective”
A German theologian and member of the Vatican’s International Theological Commission strongly criticized in a recent interview the German intercommunion handout as it was approved already on 20 February by a majority of the German bishops. He calls this handout …
Archbishop Eamon Martin Walks Back Use of Pro-Abortion Rhetoric in Remarks on Irish Vote
The Catholic world is still reeling from Ireland’s precipitous fall into darkness. First, there was the gay “marriage” vote in 2015. Then, there was the election of Ireland’s first homosexual prime minister, Leo Varadkar, in 2017. This month came the …
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