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This is What They Think of You, “One Peter Fivers”

There’s a rule of thumb I have about not directing my fire at other Catholic writers or publications. When we’re not educating people about the many beautiful aspects of our faith, our goal as a publication is to unmask those responsible for the revolution in the Church so that their works can be seen for what they are. I don’t ordinarily waste time going after other people analyzing the situation, because they’re not the story. They’re either going to do their job, or they’re not. Unless they are presenting a danger or obstructing the truth (and that latter thing has become so common it’s essentially ubiquitous), I typically prefer to keep my eyes on the prize.

Of course, since the revolution we’re unraveling goes all the way to the Chair of St. Peter, this has — not at all unexpectedly — earned us our share of enemies. If I told you every time we were attacked by another publication or writer who doesn’t share our avoidance approach to internecine conflict, you’d get bored of it pretty fast. We know that what we’re doing is honest and undertaken out of a love of the Church, so we don’t let it get to us too much. And frankly, if we’re not being attacked by the usual suspects, there’s a good chance we’re not doing our jobs.

But yesterday, I came across something that I believe is noteworthy. As much because of who it’s from as what it is. I have to be honest with you, I find it incredibly disappointing. On his public Facebook page, Dan Burke — the Executive Director of the National Catholic Registerposted the following:

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Unfollowed five today – One Peter Fivers. Folks can’t distinguish the real from the hyperbolic rant.

You may have noticed that I screen captured a few of comments. I wanted in particular to grab the one at the bottom where Fr. Stephen Imbarrato — himself a member of Priests for Life — mentions that he doesn’t know who any of the writers and commenters here are. That’s fine. I don’t expect us to be a household name. But Burke’s response is all condescending, elitist snark:

“Because you are intelligent…”

Of course, Dan Burke is so intelligent that he unfollows “One Peter Fivers” (who he’s referring to here, I’m not really certain, since he chose not to elaborate), but evidently not intelligent enough to stop John Paul Shimek — who was disciplined (it is unclear if he was fired) by Burke’s own National Catholic Register for publishing a hit piece on traditional Catholics without editorial permission — from leaving abusive comments about 1P5 and those who enjoy it all over Burke’s Facebook post. Comments like the following:

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As of this writing, Burke has not publicly asked Shimek — who is also known for his rousing social media advocacy for Catholics acceptance of some form of “God honored” homosexual relationships  — to rein in his hyperbolic critiques. On the contrary, another commenter who posted two screenshots of Shimek’s aggressive heterodoxy (see here and here) in the thread had them deleted, while Shimek’s comments still remain.

Nor has Burke responded to my own reply, in which I wrote:

And it’s this kind of attitude that leads to the following sentiment:

When your Rome Correspondent is the only guy people trust because he’s doing real journalism rather than playing to a pre-selected narrative, it’s time for introspection.

Of course, if you think our articles are factually incorrect, you have the resources of the largest Catholic media entity in the world at your disposal to correct the record.

I just hope you’re more effective at correcting us than you are at correcting your own stories when an error is brought to your attention. Amirite, Patrick Archbold?

The “Rome Correspondent” in question is, of course, Edward Pentin — arguably the finest Catholic Journalist covering the Vatican today. He does excellent work, finds and exposes uncomfortable realities, and follows his investigations wherever they lead him. His allegiance is only to the truth. I have nothing but respect for the man.

As for Pat Archbold, I invoked his name not only because he also was fired from the Register with Burke at the helm after writing a series of articles that were apparently deemed insufficiently in alignment with their particular brand of Francis-hype.

There was another reason.

It was because Pat and I had each separately pointed out to the editorial staff of the Register that they were running a story with a deeply misleading and disproven headline that gave a highly favorable impression to readers of Pope Francis’ response to one of the most controversial events in his papacy — his acceptance of the Communist “crucifix” given to him by Bolivian President Evo Morales. But it was exceedingly difficult to get them to clearly correct the story as other outlets had done. We covered the exchange at the time in our own report.

Why does any of this matter?

A theme coming out of the most recent US presidential election has been the complicity of media in treating the public to a biased narrative. If most of the so-called mainstream media were in the tank for Hillary Clinton, most of the Catholic mainstream media have been in the tank for Francis. No matter what these preferred figures do, it seems as though there’s a large, credible media outlet there to spin it in their favor. And alternative news outlets — whether its Breitbart in the secular world, or 1P5 in the Catholic one — are unjustly vilified and maligned. In the mean time, media credibility becomes — in both arenas — the big question of the day. Is the news you’re getting real or fake? Is there clear bias, or is it hidden and manipulative? Who can you trust?

The fact is, this is all to be expected. The status quo is something that has always been protected by those with the most to lose by its alteration. Right now, we know that there’s a war for the soul of the Church. We know that the Crisis in Rome begins at the very top. And we cover that to the best of our abilities, no matter how many lumps we take.

That said, I don’t know what the people Dan Burke unfollowed were guilty of, because he didn’t name them or describe their actions. He did, however, name our publication. He characterized the actions of people he chose to make a public show of shunning by their association with us. He acted as though — and this is becoming an increasingly common smear tactic — we are somehow responsible for every thought and word of those who follow our work. He sullied our good name without basis. And he insulted you — our audience — in the process.

I’ve never let the attacks people make on us and our work stop us, and I don’t plan on starting now. We know you can get your news and analysis from anywhere, and we know that you don’t have to send us your hard-earned money to support our continued efforts. But you do deserve to know what the cost is. You deserve to know that the man at the top of one of the oldest, largest, and most well-respected Catholic publications in America thinks that the collective staff and readership of 1P5 aren’t too bright, are unable to distinguish “the real from the hyperbolic rant”, and are better off ignored.

If you choose to keep reading them — and I will, where their work warrants it — it’s something you should have in mind.

And if you felt like it, perhaps you might let him know what you think of that: [email protected]

103 thoughts on “This is What They Think of You, “One Peter Fivers””

    • Interesting. I didn’t know there was such a thing. Looks like they’re not doing very well these days which doesn’t surprise me, especially considering the direction EWTN has been going in lo these many years. Everybody and his brother is a self-professed theologian and/or apologist with a website and a slew of books that say absolutely nothing. It’s a whole little industry in and of itself.

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  1. I wrote this as a second comment on that thread but then deleted it, not wanting to pile on even more. But the other thing is this: Burke is the Executive Director of a leading Catholic publication. That’s fairly prestigious in its way. But here he is behaving like a child. One of his Facebook friends linked to a 1P5 article and even included a quasi-skeptical comment. That’s it. Why would any normal person really care about that, either way? But instead, Burke makes a public show of “unfriending” the guy as if he were involved in some sort of teenage spat. Is this how adults behave?

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    • I expect this is an epiphenomenon of the current turmoil in the Church. The driving motivation of the neo-Catholic media crowd over the past three-plus years has been to make soothing Everything is awesome! noises to prevent their audiences from freaking out at the obvious disarray of the institutional Church and maybe, I don’t know, apostatizing or something.

      But now that narrative is breaking down with the dubia and the increasing implausibility of the mainstream narrative, so the gatekeepers have to find something to divert attention from their abject, manifest, shameful failure to behave like journalists. Apparently they’ve come up with Hey, let’s blame the guys who were right about this stuff all along!

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  2. Ecclesiastical terrorism….

    Try to imagine any one of the special snowflakes in the windy drifts of of the left describing a Mahometan as a terrorist.

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  3. The more heat OnePeterFive takes, the more convinced I am the work of God is being done here. I watched some of this playing out on Twitter and, I have to admit, I was slightly amused.

    I’ve stopped paying attention to the Register (mostly) except for Edward Pentin. Keep up the good work, Steve and all contributors!

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    • Jafin, Agreed on Edward Pentin, his articles are excellent.

      If some people want to attack 1P5 readers so be it. An observation that I have made over the years it that sometimes Catholic bloggers become a bit too full of themselves and I hoping that this never happens on 1P5 because I enjoy reading the articles and comments here.

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    • Yes, there is an adverse rejection to Truth. It is this narrative like in the Secular Media to rejection to Truth. They are countering by a new narrative called Fake News. This is an assault on Truth. It is now going to be the narrative of the Catholic Media towards alternative Catholic Media who are defending the absolute Truths of the Church and Her Tradition. They will attack on that same Secular narrative of that Fake News and Fake Truths that the Traditional Catholics are poisoning Catholics against Pope Francis. This is just the beginning of what to come. We need Catholics like Steve to keep us informed and up to date in this what I believe is the Catholic Spring Revolution.

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  4. That’s so funny, I disowned National Catholic Reporter 5 months ago because they are so biased. The regular commenters, whom I have dialogued with for years, turned hateful and bully people now who dare give an alternative perspective. I did not need to inform anyone, I just deleted my disqus account and opened a new one. Then of course don’t get me started on the downward spiral of “news” which is not news but poorly thought out commentary/opinion peppered too heavily with navel gazing self righteousness. So this guy decides he does not want to read articles at 1P5 anymore, who cares. His website is bland anyway too.

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  5. Good article.

    I’m so fed up with things that I just don’t care about other people’s opinions. Thanks to Francis, I have lost friends. All that matters to me is what God thinks of all this.

    The publications I read regularly are all non-establishment, because they are not afraid to wrestle with difficult truths, in order to find out what is really going on.

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    • Same here, I enjoy the freewill of God to read what I find useful to help strengthen the little faith that I have.

      Dan can slap me on the other cheek via the interweb if he likes.

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  6. Matthew 5:10-12

    10 Blessed are they that suffer persecution for justice’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
    11 Blessed are ye when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and speak all that is evil against you, untruly, for my sake:
    12 Be glad and rejoice, for your reward is very great in heaven. For so they persecuted the prophets that were before you

    Deplorable Catholic,
    Michael F Poulin

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  7. Keep up the good work Steve. I don’t always agree with your conclusions or analysis but I have never doubted your fidelity to the Faith and the facts at hand, no matter how painful and scandalous they may be. I must say the parallels between the emotive bubbles of the secular left-leaning media and so-called Catholic outlets are astounding. It’s like St Paul’s “operation of error” for journalists. Truly it is a grace to see clearly in these times of “diabolical disorientation”, and we should give thanks to God for that grace.

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  8. It seems to me that these super-star Catholic media outlets behave much the same way the “men” of the Church acted when priest were molesting boys: i.e. keeping quiet, playing “let’s pretend everything is rosy”, never say anything bad about Fr Tinseltoes, etc. Prolonging the disaster and covering it up….always a sound strategy isn’t it?

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  9. Father RP is on here and that is good enough for me. Keep up the good work. God will bless you more through this persecution. What an idiot, we are supposed to be on the same side. Now I know not to trust them. God help us!

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  10. The comparison with our national secular media makes your point quite well, Steve. Much as I dislike CNN, NYT, PBS, etc., I would not have believed how unfair and biased they are had I not witnessed what has happened during this election. It’s not hard at all to see that the same kind of “dirty politics” is alive and well in the Catholic MSM. Like their secular confreres, none of these Catholic “journalists” want to be stricken from the list of invitees to tony cocktail parties.

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    • Yes! We are the “rigid” Catholic “deplorables”…and there are a whole lot more names that the sophomoric ones call like to call us. Maybe someday they’ll mature…
      Anyway,…
      I’ve read some of the “stuff” at NCR and posted a note at EWTN asking them to drop alliance or drop all business with them. NCR writes so similar to a Protestant site on some articles that is is difficult to tell them apart.
      One Peter Five has been doing an awesome job in covering the real Catholic news. Congratulations and know when a left leaning, liberal news site blasts you, it’s a good sign that you are getting it right! Thanks for your informative articles that cover so much more real Catholic than NCR. Please, keep up the great work!

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  11. SAT Analogy [Answer]:

    Mainstream Media : Breitbart ::
    Mainstream Catholic Media : OnePeterFive

    Correct! 2 Points for you!

    One lies and hides the truth and the other states the truth plainly [like Jesus did].

    That was easy.

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  12. Ahh, sounds like Burke needs a Missionary of Mercy, stat. Apparently, Francis isn’t the only one boiling with rage over the dubia.

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  13. I smelled them out a long time ago, sad to say. The papolotry is sad and why I never suscribed. If the Pope said duo instead of Trinity, they would spin it.

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  14. Dan Burke and his ilk just can’t learn the basic lesson: don’t you-know-what on me and tell me it’s raining! You lose my respect doing that! Never had to tell Mother Angelica stuff like that! She got it. Never would have caught her being snippy and “unfriending” facebook people either, whatever that means. Didn’t have the time to mess with it! Be honest with me, Dan. Be brave! Be dangerous, for a change! At least then it’d be a little more fun to read! Maybe you’d enjoy coming to work a little more, too! Does this make me a onepeterfiver? So be it!

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  15. It is so sad to see Satan stirring up conflict between faithful Catholics who need to be united in opposing him, not each other. It seems to me that I see more and more of this in the secular and religious spheres right now. In the U.S., since the election, the hostility and in-fighting are out of control. Just sent this email to Mr. Burke:
    Dear Mr. Burke,

    As a long-time reader (long trusting the NCR, and a long-time appreciative subscriber to spiritualdirection.com), I was very disappointed to see your disparaging remarks about readers of 1Peter5. Along with your publications, that site is one of the ones that most resonates with me and that I find most helpful at this turbulent time in the Church. As you know, Sr. Lucia warned that the final battle would be about marriage and family, and Our Lady at Akita warned of apostasy in the Church and bishops and cardinals opposing each other. I join with those who suspect that the extraordinary events which have been occurring in the Church in recent years may well be part of the fulfillment of these prophecies, though obviously we cannot know for sure. But unless you can prove that statements being made at 1Peter5 are false, it seems un-Christian and wrong to attack them – and to attack those of us who follow that blog in our deep concern for our Church.
    To stir up division among people trying to live as faithful Catholics, at a time when our Church and nation (I, like you, am in the U.S.) are in such a state of division and animosity, seems irresponsible at best. I would like to continue to benefit both from your online publications and Mr. Skojec’s, and, honestly, with all the tension in the world right now I would personally prefer that I, and the many other readers, could do that without being bashed! Let the community of believers strive to be of one heart and one mind. That is a gift of the Holy Spirit, but we need to allow it to happen. We may see things differently, but we all love and seek to follow the same Lord, and appeal to His Holy Mother.
    May God bless you and your work.
    Jane Schiano-Wigutow

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  16. Steve, in my mind you just gave your detractors the prize they sought. Egged on by the great deceiver and divider, you gave in to their unkind words and reacted to their actions. I would have thought it would have been better to shrug, say “to each his own”, and got on with doing God’s work. Too much happening too fast to be distracted now. Just a thought…

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  17. Sad. Mr. Burke let his slip show. It’s rather tattered. His publication is the Old Media. On the way out, too. Turns out readers really do prefer the truth, no matter how unpleasant.

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  18. Keep up your good work Steve. Burke is just protecting his middle-of-the-road franchise. He keeps his audience fat, dumb and happy so to speak by trying perfume a pig. He is not part of the Church Militant as you are; he is irrelevant to the cause.

    I used to contribute to the National Catholic Register but stopped when they couldn’t seem to understand how Pope Francis is undermining the faith. In my mind covering up the truth is a work of the devil. So—let us pray for Dan Burke that he will begin to see the truth.

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  19. “because you are intelligent.” Typical liberal snobbishness. They think they are SO enlightened. They have all kinds of fancy degrees from impressive institutions, and scoff at those who don’t see things the same way they do. People like that would do well to consider that people generally don’t fall into heresy because they’re stupid. People who fall into heresy are usually very intelligent, probably of above-average intelligence. Often times, they have degrees from prestigious institutions, and achieve a lot of success from within the Church before they fall into heresy. Maybe they even achieve so much success that they live their lives enjoying the constant praise of popes, cardinals, and bishops. That doesn’t matter though, because worldly success dissolves in ashes at the end of the world. These people who think they know so much probably have sins they’re unwilling to give up. Instead of accepting the Church’s doctrines, they try to think their way around them to justify their sins. They get a seriously inflated view of their own intellect and, thinking they know better, decide to claim a falsehood as truth. Give me faithful Catholics who seek to help others grow in holiness over a bunch of self-righteous academics who seek to win the praise of men and to satisfy their own itching ears.

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    • They keep sending me free copies and trying to bill me (NCR, that is). I am glad for the extra birdcage liners, but can’t financially support a “newspaper” that sings lalalalalala while the House is on fire. I get the Remnant too, now. And read 1P5, obviously.

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  20. Dan Burke came to mind yesterday as I heard one misreport after another regarding Pope Bergoglio’s “Apostolic Letter.”
    It was my understanding that Mr. Burke was to engage with the press in order to help them get their reports somewhat closer to accurate. Perhaps he should return to Fox and let Megyn Kelly have a stab at this…
    Once they get to be part of the club they lose self-governance. Has narcissism ever been so virulent? Do the job and disappear. That goes for ecclesiastics and journalists.

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  21. Are there costs to speaking truth? Of course. Reputation, career, finances, social standing, friends, etc. Are there rewards to speaking truth? Of course. The only thing is that those rewards may not be found on this earth. As I see it, the various churches, including the Catholic Church, are a mirror of the society and culture all around us. When Jesus returns, will he find faith on earth?

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  22. I didn’t remember that the Register fired Pat Archbold because of him confronting them over the ‘communist crucifix’ incident. That was pretty much the nail in the coffin, that convinced me that they could no longer be trusted; anyone who looked closely at the photos could verify that the Register’s headline was in serious error (Francis had a smaller version of the same blasphemous image around his neck. How could he have been offended by it?).

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    • If a publication willfully distorts once in a while, it’s shaping opinion and belief – you are manipulated by them in true propaganda style.

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  23. Tyranny of relativism. Despite being a child raised post VII, I still feel that the Catholic faith I was taught asserted that there are moral absolutes. Today’s emerging social fracture, and indeed the fracture within the Catholic Church is between those who maintain there are moral absolutes and those who maintain that right (even Truth) is relative. Faith without good works is dead becomes – good works define faith. At the conflict point of choosing between what is seen as a human good (relative) and what is understood as God’s Law (moral absolute), there is no longer clarity.
    “I place before you life and death choose life then that you may have it in abundance”
    ad-absurdum : Kill this new born child or an atomic explosion will annihilate 1000 000 people in that city.

    Is the modern Cathiolic’s primary mission “Teach all nations” or is it “Serve one another”?

    “Jesus answered: In all truth I tell you, you are looking for me not because you have seen the signs but because you had all the bread you wanted to eat.”

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  24. Don’t take it too seriously. Previously information came from a few sources. Now that they have lost control they are spitting mad. Carry on striving for the Truth in Charity and your readership can only grow. God bless

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  25. Burke fancies himself as a contemplative in the great spiritual tradition of the Carmelites. But really, he is a lightweight. His slur against you, based on nothing but his feelings, just demonstrates that unpleasant truth.

    About 2 years ago, I commented on his blog, something to the effect, a very mild criticism of American bishops, and it was deleted. It was humorous to me because my criticism was made in the subordinate clause of the sentence. I was coming from the tragic lessons regarding bishops I was learning from Michael Voris.

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    • Yes i was really disappointed by his book “Navigating the Spiritual life” which struck me just as you say, lightweight. Burke’s work cannot be compared to the likes of, say, the late Father Thomas Dubay.

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  26. Burke’s comments are the flip side of the sedevacantist coin. Sedevacantist: the pope can’t do that, therefore we have no pope. Burke et alia: the pope can’t do that, therefore he really means something else by it, or he actually did something more nuanced that lesser minds cannot comprehend.

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  27. God bless you for your courageous actions, Steve. Blessings on all at 1P5. Is it fear that drives some people to deny what’s going around them? Yes, it is fear that makes people act irrationally. At least admitting ones fears helps one to stay sane, while others are mad to ignore the emperor’s nakedness. What is it they are afraid of – a situation God cannot bring good from? And remember: “Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so men persecuted the prophets who were before you.”

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  28. “Unfriending” seems to be all the rage, these days. I suppose Burke pictures Steve wailing gnashing his teeth when he Discovered being unfriended. Such is the infantile world we inhabit: To publicly boast of removing someone from the “cool people” list.

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    • There’s a chance even of willfully blinding one’s self. For instance disqus lets you ignore. The echo chamber idea is that too – just reinforce the idea.

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  29. If you are reading OnePeterFive, you are part of the Resistance, the Deplorables, the Alt-Christian-Right. Yes, the MSM is biased against the Truth, as is the Mainstream Catholic Media, as is good portion of the Church hierarchy.

    When you are taking flak, you are over the target.

    You are doing yeoman’s work, Steve. Keep it up. Follow the Truth wherever it leads.

    The light of God shines forth in the darkness, and permeates the darkness. However, light is only seen when it is looked at directly, or when it is reflected off of something. So let the Light reflect on you. You don’t have to do anything special, or be a hero. Just show up. Let His light shine on you, and make of you such a powerful beacon that it cannot be ignored. Let Him drive away the forces of darkness by your witnessing to the Truth.

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  30. I’ve seen the same delusional, head-in-the-sand avoidance coping strategy from yoga enthusiasts.
    Anything that could disturb inner peace is considered evil, so to keep the illusion alive the practitioner needs to cut himself from reality.
    I don’t know Mr. Burke personally, but it could be a sign of concern.

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  31. Funny… I just discovered 1P5 this past year, and now I don’t read much of anything else, including NCRegister. Compared to many other Catholic publications (of all “camps”), 1P5 is exceptional in both pertinence and (bold) accuracy! Perhaps Edward Pentin will end up writing here, once he becomes too hyperbolic for the NCRegister. (The way the Church is going now — and assuming Pentin remains honest — that probably won’t take very long…)

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  32. The Church has a rich history of internal opposition and conflict – think of St Nicholas or Christ himself. To walk away from spirited argument is not particularly Christian.

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  33. Dan Burke is a friend of mine, and you have taken the conversation way out of context here.

    If he was calling out adherents to your blog for what he termed hyperbolic rants, then address that. If you think he is inconsistent in allowing Shimek to hijack his Facebook post, then address that. But, stay with the facts- there is no one over the world intimation on Facebook that DB in his professional capacity dissed your readership at large.

    You were making what seemed like a sound fraternal concern there at first and then slipped right off the rails into something else.

    If you want credibility then act like Mike Pence.

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    • False. He referred to non readers as intelligent ergo we are dumb. Credibility is missing. You seem not to have read Steve’s article.

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  34. Why am I not surprised? One of the disclosures of Wikileaks was that John Podesta, the same Podesta who declared he was promoting ‘revolution’ in the Church and who also stated that traditonalists / conservatives had ‘bastardized the faith’, was very interested in the National Catholic Register juding from the NCR articles sent to his inbox. The NCR also requested interviews at times and had questions checked out with the Clinton Team, etc, so you know that publication is a progressive leaning source that can be put in the same basket as the rest of the progressive lame stream media that was shamelessly giving one side of the election coverage story and bashing Trump to bits. I’m not surprised they are calling 1P5 readers ‘unintelligent’ just like the media did to Trump supporters!

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  35. All I can say is kudos to 1P5.

    I suppose it is hard for Catholic MSM to be independent. I wonder if this would have happened if Mother Angelica was still in charge.

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  36. It’s decision time for all of us, including the Register et al. We’re either part of the problem or part of the solution. In de facto schism there is no neutral territory.

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  38. I expect most of the critics are weeping bitter tears over HRC’s fail and now are madly posting on Reddit’s /r/politics about getting a recount, or how Russia hacked Wisconsin’s paper and scan voting, despite it being disconnected from the internet. Probably giving all their money to Jill Stein’s recount scam fundraiser.

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  39. I stopped looking at NCRegister about a year ago (I stopped looking at CNA two years or more ago). There’s nothing but pablum and happy talk, with no recognition of the encroaching shadows, their heads stuck firmly in their . . . sandboxes (what did you think I was going to say there?). Edward Pentin is still good, not because he’s polemical (he isn’t), but just because he doesn’t flinch at what he sees, but just reports it, warts and all.

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  40. Thank you, Steve to point this out. Just like the Secular Media is in the tank for Hillary so is the Catholic Media in the tank for this New Age Catholic Agenda. I hope Steve you will look into the John Podesta’s Catholic Spring Revolution that was brought up during Presidential Campaign. It seems to correspond to what is happening here in the U.S. with Catholics and also in the Vatican and with Pope Francis which what is looking like he is heading this Catholic Spring Revolution. The silence to the Dubia Letter, the latest criticisms of the Traditional Mass, the acceptance of descendants to Pope Paul VI declaration on Contraception. Thanks Steve we need you to continue your good work. God Bless.

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  41. Hmmm. At Yahoo.com this morning: “The pope, who met Fidel Castro when he visited Cuba last year, said he had received the “sad news” and added: “I express to you my sentiments of grief.”” Sets me to wondering what Pope Francis might have said if he’d occupied the papal throne (so to speak) back when Mr. and Mrs. Ceausescu, both Commies at least as ardent as Fidel, met their untimely end. I guess we can hope his grief comes from the realization that the Cuban dictator left the Church long ago and died seemingly without ever repenting.

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  42. I am a programmer and love to crunch numbers. I took all the the Catholic blog and websites and compared their growth over the last year. It is very interesting. As far as 1P5 went, it had the greatest gain in readership of any Catholic website, up 40%, RC Register was down 30%. The official Vatican website that is full of positive Pope propaganda is down 80%, yes that is 80%. The liberal Catholic websites are all down even worse than RC Register. For example, RC Reporter is down 41%. Oddly, Catholic websites that have no news content, are staying about even or going up a little.

    As for myself, I get so upset at the news coming out about Pope Francis, the Vatican, and many bishops, that I have to turn it all off. I start getting depressed and my faith falters. (I thinks Steve mentioned a few months ago that his wife had to get after him a little bit about similar issues.) None the less, it is understandable that we both want to know what is going on. It is kind of like when you have family in Florida during a hurricane, you are concerned about so you watch everything you can about the hurricane.

    But sometimes we still have to back off and not allow it all to depress us. For me, I have decided to watch with a bit of an attitude that either this will blowup and cause a total purge of the heretics of the Church, or Jesus will have to step in, perhaps even his second coming and the end of the worldly system.

    Another interesting statistic is that Church Militant, who has been supporting the Pope while bashing unfaithful bishops, has seen it traffic drop by 25%. I think a lot of readers can see the irony in supporting the Pope ( who appoints these heretical bishops), while dong good work exposing those same bishops in their heresy.

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