Filed under: things you never thought you’d hear a pope say. Ever. In his weekly Angelus address on Sunday, Pope Francis said that Jesus’ words are sometimes hard to accept, that they “rock our world” and challenge our secular mentality, because he doesn’t offer immediate success but a longer road to true happiness. Referring to the…
Earlier this year, a petition was started. It’s purpose was simple: it asks the Holy Father to calm the fears of Catholics around the world with a simple public assurance that those forces which are seeking to undermine Christ’s teaching on marriage will not prevail at the conclusion of the two-year Extraordinary Synod on Marriage and Family. The…
On our Facebook page, a very upset (former) reader had some harsh words for us about the recent discussion of the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X in the pages of 1P5. She wrote: Fr Paul Nicholson was correct. Very disappointed with your embrace of SSPX. I think you should go on a retreat and pray about…
Ever wonder why we call alcohol “spirits”? After all, “spirit” can refer to: the human soul, either in whole or in part; an intelligent creature with no material body (angels and demons, or if you are getting fanciful, sprites, nymphs, and so forth); the Third Person in the Holy Trinity; courage or gumption; a defining…
On February 9, 1969, parishioners of St. Anthony’s Church in Baltimore picketed their own church, carrying homemade signs declaring: “We want Monsignor Manns, Send Martel far way,” and collecting signatures to petition Cardinal Shehan to halt the forced resignation of Manns, who was their pastor. A week earlier, the cardinal sent Monsignor Manns a personal…
[powerpress] The following is a general transcript of today’s podcast: The Catholic Church has completely lost its ability to prioritize. In the midst of a global crisis of faith, where belief in the Real Presence is a minority view for Catholics but contraception use isn’t, we are spending our time talking about the environment and the material needs…
Bishop Athanasius Schneider is, without question, the most vocal defender of Catholic orthodoxy in the Church hierarchy today. So it’s a very good thing that despite being the Auxiliary bishop of a diocese (Astana) in a country (Kazakhstan) few Westerners have ever heard of, he has been a very high-profile presence in Western media over the…
Pope Francis will canonize Blessed Louis and Azelie Martin, the parents of St. Therese of Lisieux, at the conclusion of the Synod of the Family this October. For devotees of St. Therese and married couples looking for models within the Church Triumphant, this is exciting news. Blessed Louis Martin was born on August 22, 1823…
“Woe to you that call evil good, and good evil: that put darkness for light, and light for darkness…” Isaias 5:20 “He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, both are abominable before God.” Proverbs 7:15 Why is it that every time some self-styled “reformer” sets out to do away with the…
My heart is broken. There is a family — the Kazas — who live just down the road from us. They are a large Catholic family, with eleven children. I’ve never met them, but some of their children went to school with some of our children. As with many large Catholic families, we travel in…
I’ve got a long-standing and deep dislike for graphic abortion photos. I remember as a teen, going to the March for Life, and having a certain breed of angry old men standing on the sidelines with huge posters of dismembered, bloody babies, yelling that abortion was murder. We know! I would think to myself. Why do you…
