Last week, the Vatican took pains to deny that Pope Francis is in the crosshairs of the Islamic State (IS). And yet, there is reason to believe that there is more to the threat than the Vatican wants to let on. While on the surface, threats like this from the Islamic State against the pope may seem shocking…
Last week approximately 500 Catholic leaders and their pastors from around the country gathered in Denver, Colorado for the first Amazing Parish conference to “brainstorm and swap ideas about improving parish life.” As reported by the Catholic News Agency: “The newly-founded Amazing Parish movement seeks to provide resources to pastors and parish leaders so they…
There’s a scene in Evelyn Waugh’s masterpiece novel, Brideshead Revisited, that I often recall, to my amusement. Father Mowbray is giving instructions in the Catholic faith to a lapsed Protestant named Rex Mottram. Mister Mottram isn’t really sincere in his conversion (in fact he’s completely disinterested in spiritual matters), but he very much wants to…
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. We went from absolutely nobody knowing who we were at the end of July to…
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 with Andrew Bieszad. I soon questioned this choice, however, finding myself concerned about taking a confrontational…
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 link to today’s episode, in which I interview Fr. Richard Heilman about spiritual warfare, his…
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 the last century an Age of Martyrs. Sadly, it seems as though it was simply…
[powerpress] 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.
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 culture today would disagree with this point, it is at least well understood by most…
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 in the Catholic Church is the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, the headquarters of which…
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…
