For those of our readers outside the United States, you may not know that today is Labor Day – a national holiday. It just so happens that it comes at the end of our very first month online. It’s been a good month. …
Breaking: Imminent Terror Attack Threat on Southern US Border
As the publisher of OnePeterFive, I make the editorial decisions on which topics to cover to further our vision of Catholic restoration. When we launched on August 1st, I intended to run a brief series educational pieces on Islam after some initial collaboration …
Episode 2 of the Podcast is Now Available
Although it shows up on the homepage and to subscribers through iTunes, etc., the 1P5 Podcast is conspicuously absent from our site’s RSS feed. I’ll be working to find a solution to that for next week. Until then, here’s a …
Beheadings and the Passion of John the Baptist
In his 2002 book “The New Persecuted”, Italian journalist Antonio Socci reported that two thirds of the Christians martyred in history were in the twentieth century. Persecution of Christians by German National Socialism, atheistic Communism and radical Islam made …
1P5 Podcast – Episode 2: Spiritual Warfare & Combat Rosary
Today we interview Fr. Richard Heilman, founder of several apostolates and creator of the WWI-based Combat Rosary. Fr. Heilman’s Facebook page. You can find the Knights of the Divine Mercy here. The combat rosary is available from RomanCatholicGear.com.
Minimum Wage Thinking and Salvation Theology: On the Worth and Value of the Human Being
The conception behind minimum wage laws – and any similar notion that supposes that employees should receive payment or benefits unrelated to the transactional value which they bring to their employers – is economically unsound. Though most people in our …
USCCB Loses Its Head
It is a curious conceit of an obtuse generation that it believes itself to be committed to modernity, embodied by devotion to science and reason, and yet is so irrevocably immutable to evidence. The spiritual (but not religious) Mecca of modernity …
The Swimming Pool Mass: A Catholic Rorschach Test
The internet and social media has paid a good deal of attention recently to the now infamous “poolside Mass” offered at LaSalle College High School in suburban Philadelphia for the boys water polo team. The image of young, shirtless, …
ISIS: Surprisingly Sophisticated, Extremely Well-Funded
In a very interesting infographic on Medium, Matter Magazine offers us a paint by numbers assessment of the ISIS threat. Among other things, the Islamic State has a shocking amount of money — $2 BILLION dollars — four times as much …
Dhimmitude: Coming Soon to a Country Near You
The former Archbishop of Mosul, Amel Nona, said that the end of the Church in Iraq at ISIS’s hands is a warning to fellow Catholics throughout the world, particularly in the West: Please, try to understand us. Your liberal and …