The Dispatch
Why didn’t Jesus consider these inclusive ideas?
In an age when so many have raised inclusivity to the status of a Commandment, I have been pondering how Jesus might have better incorporated [...]
Cardinal McElroy’s Grand Deception
Chapp's Schtick
Cardinal Robert W. McElroy of San Diego, in his recent manifesto on synodality (“Cardinal McElroy on ‘radical inclusion’ for L.G.B.T. people, women and others in the Catholic Church”) in America magazine, has done us a [...]
Sanity, synodality, and Germany
Analysis
A headshrinker could have a field day with the interview Pope Francis gave to the Associated Press last week. There was plenty of grist for the mill, and news nonetheless buried between the argle and [...]
Columns
Why St. Thomas?
The Church has given the title “doctor” to some of her saints. In Latin doctor means “teacher” and the doctors of the Church are teachers of a very special sort. Pius X calls them “our [...]
Analysis
Some questions about the Bidens’ 1977 Catholic wedding
For quite some time, I have been puzzled about the relative silence regarding the nuptials of Joe and Jill Biden, especially since President Biden has told us repeatedly that he is a devout, practicing Catholic. [...]
Features
Films of memory and identity: My favorites of 2022
The movie year 2022 was a year of memory and identity, with one film after another exploring how memory both gives us access to our past, to our roots, and also distorts and obscures the [...]
Features
Why is ad orientem worship so controversial?
Until the 1960s, Catholics worshipped ad orientem, with priest and congregation facing the East during Mass. Originally Christians celebrated Mass before daybreak Sunday morning with the rising sun serving as a symbol of Christ’s resurrection [...]
Books
New book examines origins, history, and goals of the sexual revolution
Over the last several decades, the decay in our society has flowed almost exclusively from the rotten state of the family, confusion over proper approaches to human sexuality, gender, and more, all of which is [...]
Columns
Garrigou-Lagrange’s On Divine Revelation is a master class of Thomistic apologetics
I’m sure very few people ever expected to see a revival of interest in the thought of the late French Dominican theologian Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange. In preconciliar Catholic theology his traditional Thomism belonged to the mainstream, [...]
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Cardinal Robert W. McElroy of San Diego, in his recent manifesto on synodality (“Cardinal McElroy on ‘radical inclusion’ for L.G.B.T. people, women and others in the Catholic Church”) in America magazine, has done us a [...] -
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Shortly before his death two weeks ago, Cardinal George Pell wrote an essay lambasting what he described as “one of the most incoherent documents ever sent out from Rome.” Noted researcher and professor of sociology [...] -
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Marriage in the evil one’s new “Catholicish” church will not be about children or families — and certainly not sacrificial…
The little-known story of when the Masons tried to kill Don Bosco | Passionists Missionaries Kenya, Vice Province of St. Charles Lwanga, Fathers & Brothers:
[…] CNA Newsroom, Jan 31, 2023 / 14:25 pm (CNA). History notes how much the Freemasons hated St. John Bosco,…
