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, boys has been literally “splashed” across the Catholic blogosphere. In the same picture (which first…
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 as the Taliban. And their wealth is growing, with $3 million dollars a day in…
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 democratic principles are worth nothing here. You must consider again our reality in the Middle…
Back in March, I wrote a piece for CatholicVote about FDA evaluation of a process that would create multi-parent embryos: Things like this always begin for such seemingly noble scientific reasons, don’t they? But they rarely stop there. And of course in addition to creating tri-parent offspring, which creates ethical and genealogical nightmares in its own…
A distant but rapidly approaching thunderstorm awakens me from a deep sleep. I toss and turn and lie there, but find every attempt to return to sleep a futile effort, so I at last decide to take the pregnancy test that has been on my mind all afternoon. I wait, staring at the little window, willing…
This weekend, OnePeterFive will be one month old! Thousands of you have already visited, read, and shared our content, making this one of the fastest growing Catholic websites on the Internet. As a new publication, we’ve been pacing ourselves. One feature a day, five days a week. That’s been the model. In addition, we’ve added the…
Come, come with me unto the fields of the LordBring your helmet and shield, bring your Bible and sword,For great is danger – greater still, the reward –for those who remain in the arms of the Lord.Oh why would you cower? Oh, why should you fear?Death has no power – our Lord is here.And the…
“The unspiritual man does not receive the gifts of the Spirit of God,” writes St. Paul, “for they are foolishness to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.” (1 Cor 2:14) The unfortunate reality is that the modern campaign of militant secular indoctrination has been so severe that…
Nineteen years ago last month, I married the love of my life and the mother of my children. For me, she was the fulfillment of a dream and many seemingly unanswerable prayers. I was really quite petty with God when I made a checklist of physical and intellectual attributes that I wanted in a spouse.…
