On March 13, 2013, I sat in my office and watched my screen as a new pope — a man whom I had never seen before that moment — walked out onto the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica. I had never heard of him. I did not even know his name. Like most Catholics, I had…
Image: Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and Dr. Ingo Dollinger, 1997 In May of 2016, OnePeterFive received a public denial from the Vatican’s Press Office with regard to a story that we had published about the apparently still missing part of the Third Secret of Fatima. On 15 May 2016, Dr. Ingo Dollinger, a saintly priest and long-time…
Over at LifeSiteNews, Pete Baklinksy and Claire Chretien (both of whom are, by the way, doing some of the most important work in Catholic journalism today) have compiled a list of bishops and cardinals who have spoken out publicly both for and against the dubia pertaining to Amoris Laetitia. I’m not positive that the list is comprehensive — I noticed…
(Image source) Attention Washington DC area readers: Professor Roberto de Mattei, Catholic historian, President of the Lepanto Foundation, and author of over twenty books, including one of the seminal works on Vatican II: The Second Vatican Council – An Unwritten Story, will be giving a lecture on the crisis in the Church at the Cosmos Club in…
(Image: Screenshot of the papal interview as it appears [with Google translation] in Zeit Online) Today, 8 March, the German newspaper Die Zeit published an interview with Pope Francis which was conducted at the end of February at the pope’s residence Casa Santa Marta in Rome. In this somewhat lengthy interview, the pope speaks about…
Today, on 7 March, there appeared in the prominent secular Austrian newspaper Die Presse an article, entitled “Francis – Populism in a Catholic Way” (“Franziskus – Populismus auf katholisch”), which contains some strongly critical remarks about Pope Francis and his perceptibly continual leadership. (The Austrian Catholic website Kath.net has also reported on it.) Hans Winkler, the author…
The Church has told us countless times to go to St. Thomas for guidance in matters of philosophy and theology. Over the centuries this authoritative counsel has been a source of motivation for countless schools and seminaries, teachers and scholars. But just who was this saint, what were the main lines of his life, and…
Today, on 6 March 2017, the German Bishops’ Conference began its own spring General Assembly in Bensberg (Bergisch Gladbach), Germany. Sixty-six German bishops are now coming together for four days in order to discuss such themes as migration, the priesthood, and ecumenism. At today’s opening press conference, the President of the German Bishops’ Conference, Cardinal…
(Image courtesy of John Cosmas, Charlotte Latin Mass Community) In a 2015 interview with the noted atheist Sam Harris, Mark Riebling, another atheist and the author of Church of Spies: The Pope’s Secret War Against Hitler, makes a fascinating connection between the Nazis and ISIS: [T]here’s a reason that the first books the Nazis banned…
Guest: Joseph Sciambra, former gay man turned author, speaker, and Catholic evangelist. Description: From promotion of the LGBT agenda at the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress to the rise of transgenderism to the controversies surrounding Milo Yiannopoulos to the dark reality of homosexual clergy, this wide-ranging interview runs long for a 1P5 podcast at nearly two hours,…
In the midst of detecting and reporting many discouraging events, we at OnePeterFive are always grateful to report encouraging developments. One such good development comes to us now from Colombia, Southern America. As we have reported, Rigoberto Corredor Bermúdez, the Bishop of Pereira, on 16 January 2017, had suspended of his priests — Father Luis Carlos…
