Features
Covid-19 vaccination should not be mandatory
In a recent post on my personal blog, I argued that a Catholic can in good conscience take one of the Covid-19 vaccines, but also that [...]
Covid-19 vaccination should not be mandatory
Features
In a recent post on my personal blog, I argued that a Catholic can in good conscience take one of the Covid-19 vaccines, but also that such vaccination should not be mandatory. In a follow-up post, I [...]
Did comedian Dave Chappelle crack the LGBT edifice?
Analysis
A recent Netflix special starring the comedian Dave Chappelle has sent the biggest names in the American corporate media into a fit of histrionic indignation. The evident reason for this frenzied backlash, which has taken [...]
Features
The French bishops have only themselves to blame
Alfred Hitchock’s 1953 I Confess! Is one of the master’s lesser-known noir efforts. It tells the story of a Quebecois parish priest who is framed for murder. The film is signature Hitchcock in style, but [...]
Essay
“Tell His Glory Among the Nations”
Evangelization is not for the faint of heart. It is for those whose hearts are conformed to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, pierced for sinners. The Church’s mission of proclaiming the Gospel is aided by [...]
Features
The Italian missionaries who introduced Christianity to Tibet
For the past 70 years, Tibet has been dominated by China, which is actively trying to erase the region’s cultural and religious roots. The Chinese invasion of Tibet dates back to 1950. In 1959, after [...]
Features
Catholicism in Myanmar: Solid faith amid a tenuous existence
Catholicism has never been easy in Myanmar. The Church first arrived in 1514, but failed to find enduring success, as fledgling missions were either driven out or abandoned. Not until 2017 did the Vatican finally [...]
Features
Catholic doctor takes up cause for natural immunity against vaccine mandates
Doctor Aaron Kheriaty will soon be suspended without pay from his post as a professor of psychiatry in the University of California-Irvine’s School of Medicine. He has been threatened with being fired for his refusal [...]
Columns
What is freedom?
We talk about freedom as if we knew what it is, but it’s a tricky business. Issues relating to health are a constant source of dispute, so they dramatize some of the problems. Medical freedom [...]
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We talk about freedom as if we knew what it is, but it’s a tricky business. Issues relating to health are a constant source of dispute, so they dramatize some of the problems. Medical freedom [...] -
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“In journalism,” wrote Venerable Fulton Sheen in 1955’s Thinking Life Through, “the modern man wants controversy, not truth.” I could say that examples abound, but that would assume a broad definition—to the point of non-definition—of [...] -
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Timothy J. Williams:
Dave Chappelle is crude, yes, but one can only imagine what an author like Rabelais would have written in reaction…
George Kocan:
If the "vaccine" kills me, or fails to protect me from the virus, who pays? Biden? Pfizer? The employer? Where…
Peter Santos:
If priests or bishops who know that particular priests are pederats/paedophiles, want to be able to report these perverts, then…
