One Peter Five

20 years ago, Steve Skojec had a front-row seat to the unfolding scandal that brought down the founder of the Legionaries of Christ. Michael Voris' situation is very different, but there are still lessons there to be learned.

http://www.onepeterfive.com/he-that-doth-truth-cometh-to-t…/

"While most Catholic commentators later concentrated – understandably – on the troubling remarks of the pope about the possibility (under certain conditions) for Protestants to receive Holy Communion, few noticed the seeming snub or slap in the face of Cardinal Müller himself that had taken place there. The pope was obviously not at all “afraid” of the CDF Prefect -- whose job it is to safeguard the Church's teachings -- when making his spontaneous and imprudent, controversial remarks. Instead, the pope effectively placed Cardinal Kasper over Cardinal Müller as a doctrinal authority..."

http://www.onepeterfive.com/in-a-series-of-strategic-moves…/

OnePeterFive Weekly Digest | 04/23/2016

After reading Amoris Laetitia, John Zmirak asks the question we should all be considering:

"How much of this same 'charitable' rhetoric will dissenting Catholics apply to people in same-sex relationships? The correct answer is 'all of it.' If Catholics living in adultery are to be fully 'included' in Church life, to be welcomed as godparents, religion teachers, and lectors, what exactly is the argument for rejecting those in homosexual relationships calling themselves 'married'?"

http://www.onepeterfive.com/through-the-eye-of-a-loophole/

"The folks at Church Militant and I do not see eye to eye on some very important things. But today, I stand with Michael Voris against those who would use public detraction to destroy a man’s reputation. Michael has my personal prayers and my public support in this fight."

http://www.onepeterfive.com/note-voris-confession/

Last year, Cardinal Marx, head of the German bishops' conference and proponent of the Kasper proposal, made the controversial announcement that whatever the Synod decided, the German church was “not just a subsidiary of Rome" and would make its own decisions on communion for the divorced and remarried.

After the exhortation, he seems perfectly content to play nice with Rome.

http://www.onepeterfive.com/cardinal-marx-no-situation-in-…/

This essay is essential reading on the exhortation:

"I have felt the Church’s teaching on marriage land like a sharp blow, yet I take no encouragement from this shift. Amoris Laetitia suggests that an objective assessment of whether or not one is in a state of mortal sin can be replaced with a more subjective “discernment” of one’s “interior disposition.” While this may seem merciful, it leaves Catholics less sure of how they stand before God."

http://www.onepeterfive.com/a-christ-both-loving-and-fierce/

"The greatest oppression is the law of sin reigning in our hearts, and the social reformer ought first to search his own breast and the souls of the oppressed if he would find the true source of oppression. If we truly assent to these basic theological data, then we must admit that social justice can be truly transformational only if it is sacramental. Alleviation from external oppression, if not supported by inner transformation of mind, leads only to a new kind of slavery. "

http://www.onepeterfive.com/social-justice-catholic-not/

"To put all of this advice into a single phrase: Become the kind of Catholic you want the world to be full of."

http://www.onepeterfive.com/tempest-tossed-whats-next-for-…/

If you haven't watched this segment yet, you should set aside some time to watch it. Raymond Arroyo has takes kind of investigative stance one once might have expected of Church Militant as he asks important questions about the exhortation's troubling language.

http://www.onepeterfive.com/ewtns-arroyo-asks-tough-questi…/

It was well and truly time.

http://www.onepeterfive.com/comment-policy-is-now-in-effect/

The Society of St. Pius X has at last published something formal about the exhortation, a statement entitled “The Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia: the Victory of Subjectivism.” The text is not yet available in English, so we have provided a translation of some important excerpts.

http://www.onepeterfive.com/sspx-amoris-laetitia-a-victory…/

When we recorded this podcast in 2014, we realized it was too controversial to publish at the time. In 2016, it barely seems adequate.

http://www.onepeterfive.com/1p5-podcast-episode-35-explori…/

OnePeterFive Weekly Digest | 04/16/2016

Cardinal Burke, please call your office.

**UPDATE**: To head off the "bad translation" trolling at the pass, our translator, who has now double-checked the audio in Italian, says that the Italian syntax in the linked transcript is slightly off. He tells me that the pope clearly says, "Io posso dire sì. Punto." In English: "I can say yes. Period." This actually makes the statement even more emphatic, not less so.

http://www.onepeterfive.com/on-change-for-divorced-and-rem…/

They're certainly not making us wait to find out what they think.

http://www.onepeterfive.com/kasper-amoris-laetitia-changes…/

"There can be nothing more dangerous than those heretics who admit nearly the whole cycle of doctrine, and yet by one word, as with a drop of poison, infect the real and simple faith taught by our Lord and handed down by Apostolic tradition"

http://www.onepeterfive.com/pope-leo-xiii-warned-us/

Mr. Spence took parting shots at the "far right blogosphere" in an interview with the National Catholic Reporter. News reports say that following his resignation, he was escorted from the USCCB offices.

http://www.onepeterfive.com/cns-director-resigns-amidst-pr…/

Cardinal Lehmann stresses in his statement – which has been posted on the website of the Diocese of Mainz, where he is the bishop – that the pope says now, with regard to those couples who live in “irregular situations” that one cannot simply any more say that they live in “the state of mortal sin” and that they have thus lost the “sanctifying grace.”

http://www.onepeterfive.com/cardinal-lehmann-praises-amori…/