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Pope Francis “takes aim” in “Gaudete et Exsultate”—and misses?

April 9, 2018 Carl E. Olson 105

The many good qualities and substantive passages in Gaudete et Exsultate are often overshadowed, or even undermined, by straw men, dubious arguments, and cheap shots. […]

Editorial

Cardinal Marx promotes false news about blessings and “homosexual unions”

February 3, 2018 Carl E. Olson 47

Will Pope Francis correct the German Cardinal, who has stated that Catholic priests can conduct blessing ceremonies for homosexual couples and says “we have no […]

Editorial

Catholics aren’t obsessed with sex—they are obsessed with life

January 9, 2018 Carl E. Olson 30

There seems little doubt, at this point, that 2018 is going to witness yet another great clash over Paul VI’s encyclical—arguably the most contested and […]

Editorial

Why does Fr. Martin persist in embarrassing, sleight-of-substance tactics?

November 3, 2017 Carl E. Olson 74

The well-known Jesuit priest and author insists that Fr. Thomas G. Weinandy is a “dissenter”. That would be funny if it wasn’t so stupid. […]

Editorial

In gratitude for the gift of the “Catechism of the Catholic Church”

October 11, 2017 Carl E. Olson 22

How I learned that reading and studying the Catechism, Church doctrine and dogma, and theology are not ultimately about knowing things or facts but about knowing […]

Editorial

Transcendent truth, not leftist hypocrisy, needed to overcome racism and other evils

August 17, 2017 Carl E. Olson 43

The Left always seeks to claim and re-name the moral high ground, but has no objective foundations for its radical political project […]

Editorial

Is Cardinal Pell “the quintessential scape-goat”? [Updated]

July 6, 2017 Carl E. Olson 38

I’m not an expert—not even close—on Australian politics or Catholicism Down Under, but over the past few years I’ve carried on correspondence with a number of Catholics in Australia. And these folks, all of them […]

Editorial

Pope Francis and the Doctrinal Ideologues

May 22, 2017 Carl E. Olson 9

There is a reason the Creed is recited every Sunday. And to defend and hold to doctrine is not only not ideological, it is part […]

Editorial

Settle for nothing less than the infinite mystery and infinite delight

April 27, 2017 Carl E. Olson 0

Back in the early 1840s, John Henry Newman observed that physical philosophers—that is, scientists—”are ever inquiring whence things are, not why; referring them to nature, not to mind; and thus they tend to make a […]

Editorial

The hysterical media attacks on Cardinal Burke

February 10, 2017 Carl E. Olson 0

A couple of weeks ago I came across the following, written by Oscar Wilde some 125 years or so ago: In old days men had the rack. Now they have the press. That is an […]

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