Publication: One Peter Five
The Welcome Demise of Enforced Optimism
The meltdown of the Church in the West since the Second Vatican Council doubtless has many and complex causes, but I am convinced that the foremost cause of it is ...
The Homosexual Mafia in High School Seminary
As a sex abuse victims’ advocate and investigative reporter, I have encountered many cases which led me to conclude that the sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church is the ...
Book Review: Masonic Conspiracy, Lefebvre, and the Murder of John Paul I
Fr. Charles Murr is one of the last living witnesses to Vatican corruption who is both orthodox and courageous. We have many clerics out there – dare I opine “many”! ...
It’s Time to Occupy the Churches
This past summer, just before the God of Surprises ordained it be revealed that Grindr users’ location data is accessible to the public, Pope Francis issued something unsurprising to traditional ...
What Is A Canceled Priest?
This is the question I get asked the most by Catholics unfamiliar with cancel culture. To be honest, I find it surprising amidst the rash of cancelation in various forms ...
Seminarian: “Is There Any Reason Why I Should Remain Catholic?”
Editor’s note: we received this submission from an anonymous seminarian, and have chosen to run it as such. It is the cry — and the challenge — of a child ...
WATCH: A Fantastic Theological Review of the Amazon Synod
A complete theological analysis of this Synod would take many lectures, not just one, so I will have to be selective and brief. My talk today will have four parts ...
The Amazon Synod and the Church as Laughingstock
The synod is done. But the mutant thing lives on in its final document, “Amazonia: New Ways for the Church and for a Holistic Ecology.” Prudence and discretion, rationality itself, ...
Marco Tosatti: A Refresher on Liberation Theology
The fact that Benedict XVI is still living and witnessing what is transpiring today in the Church is perhaps a mystery of the Faith. First as cardinal and then as ...
Pope’s Scalfari Message Is for Italians (Not for You)
People on various internet platforms are still expressing their dismay and confusion over the pope’s alleged denial of the divinity of Christ, as conveyed by the Italian journalist and former ...
The Evidence Suggests The Francis-Scalfari Connection is No Accident
Since the news broke early this week that the nonegenarian atheist socialist editor of Italy’s La Repubblica, Eugenio Scalfari, claimed that Pope Francis told him during one of their many conversations ...
Vatican Scandals: Follow The Money…If You Can
On January 4, 2013, a month before Pope Benedict resigned, the Italian Central Bank turned the lights off on the entire Vatican. The Vatican no longer had the ability to make any electronic financial ...
Cardinal Maradiaga Evacuated From Plane Due to Protesters & Threat of “Lynching”
Part of Pope Francis' inner circle, Maradiaga has been the subject of many controversies in his home country of Honduras Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, the head of the pope’s council ...
BUSTED: Vatican Caught Trying To Modify Pope’s Interview
After nine months Pope Bergoglio has responded, in a certain sense, to the testimony of Archbishop Viganò on the McCarrick case. In the last post we saw how he responded: ...
Vatican Scandals: Follow The Money
On January 4, 2013, a month before Pope Benedict resigned, the Italian Central Bank turned the lights off on the entire Vatican. The Vatican no longer had the ability to make any electronic financial ...
De Mattei on the Francis Pontificate: Six Years of ‘Hypocrisy and Lies’
OnePeterFive presents this exclusive interview of Professor Roberto De Mattei, President of the Lepanto Foundation, with Italian journalist Aldo Maria Valli – one of the Italian journalists who helped publish ...
The Pell Fallout Continues And It Has Implications For The Whole Church
Last week, it was announced by the Australian court system that Cardinal George Pell had been convicted in December of child sex abuse. The media had been prevented from reporting ...
Prominent Sex Abuse Whistleblower on the Summit: ‘This Cannot Be the Catholic Response’
During the press conference for the Vatican Summit on Sex Abuse, early Monday, Cardinal Blase Cupich was asked by CNN’s Delia Gallagher to address whether “part of the problem is ...
Viganò: Rome Has No “Genuine Willingness to Attend to the Real Causes” of Clerical Sex Abuse Crisis
In response to an invitation to participate in a National Catholic Register symposium on the Clerical Sex Abuse Summit in Rome later this month, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has once again made public ...
The LA REC Is a Blueprint for Obliterating the Faith
If one were looking for a front-row seat to comprehend the disarray that’s befallen the Catholic Church, one needn’t look far from the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress (“REC”), taking ...
Pope Francis’ Parade of Embarrassing Friendships
The least we can say is that the figure of Pope Bergoglio is embarrassing. Perhaps not so much for who he is as a person in himself – but then ...
