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  • [ December 1, 2025 ] Pope Leo tells Lebanese religious leaders unity and peace are possible News Briefs
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  • [ December 1, 2025 ] Pope Leo entrusts Lebanon to Saint Charbel’s intercession, prays at his tomb News Briefs
  • [ November 30, 2025 ] Pope Leo XIV calls Lebanon to tenacity, hope, and reconciliation News Briefs
  • [ November 30, 2025 ] Pope Leo says Erdogan talks focused on Gaza and Ukraine, sees Turkish role in peace efforts News Briefs

Articles by Matthew Cullinan Hoffman

About Matthew Cullinan Hoffman
Matthew Cullinan Hoffman is a Catholic essayist and journalist, and the author and translator of The Book of Gomorrah and St. Peter Damian's Struggle Against Ecclesiastical Corruption (2015). His award-winning articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, London Sunday Times, Catholic World Report, LifeSite News, Crisis, the National Catholic Register, and many other publications. He holds an M.A. in Philosophy from Holy Apostles College and Seminary, with a focus on Thomism.
Books

The weaknesses and flaws in Bishop Schneider’s Credo: A traditionalist’s review

October 19, 2024 Matthew Cullinan Hoffman 97

Bishop Athanasius Schneider’s recent catechism Credo: Compendium of the Catholic Faith, published in late 2023 by Sophia Institute Press, has been hailed by high prelates and famous theologians as a much-needed clarification of Catholic teaching in […]

Analysis

Controversial “orgasm” book contains roots of Amoris Laetitia, Fiducia Supplicans

January 11, 2024 Matthew Cullinan Hoffman 74

Editor’s note: The following essay contains graphic language about sexuality that may not be suitable for all readers.  It recently came to light that Pope Francis’ doctrinal chief, Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez, is the author […]

The Dispatch

Mexican Supreme Court strikes down abortion laws at behest of US-funded pro-abortion group

September 9, 2023 Matthew Cullinan Hoffman 12

The Mexican Supreme Court on Wednesday issued a new ruling nullifying criminal penalties for abortion in federal law, in response to a lawsuit brought by an abortion activist group funded with millions of dollars in […]

Features

Values of life and family in catastrophic decline in Mexico (Part 2)

August 20, 2023 Matthew Cullinan Hoffman 37

Editor’s note: Part 1 of this essay was published on August 15, 2023. ————– Mexico’s post-2016 denouement: abortion decriminalized, violent feminist marches begin Since Pope Francis visited in 2016, Mexico has rapidly lost ground to […]

Features

Values of life and family in catastrophic decline in Mexico (Part 1)

August 15, 2023 Matthew Cullinan Hoffman 16

Over the past decade, the state of the Mexican family – so long its strongest institution – has entered into the worst crisis of its history. The divorce rate in Mexico has skyrocketed, the country’s […]

Features

Transgender ideology makes inroads in Archdiocese of Guadalajara

March 23, 2023 Matthew Cullinan Hoffman 30

A male-to-female “transgender” drag queen performer in the city of Guadalajara, Mexico has received a new baptismal certificate affirming his female self-identity, with the approval of an official of the city’s Catholic archdiocese. The issuance […]

Features

Cardinal Becciu case is the tip of corruption iceberg in the Vatican

November 14, 2021 Matthew Cullinan Hoffman 37

Editor’s note: This is part two of a two-part series. Click here for part one. Cardinal Angelo Becciu’s eight-year tenure in the Vatican Secretariat of State has left a trail of scandal and moral wreckage […]

Features

Pope Francis and the Cardinal Becciu affair

November 8, 2021 Matthew Cullinan Hoffman 24

Cardinal Angelo Becciu’s fall from grace in the Francis papacy is unparalleled in recent Vatican history, and the Vatican’s public relations apparatus is portraying his case as an example of the pope’s commitment to cleaning […]

Analysis

Does the Catholic Church owe an apology for the conquest of the New World?

October 29, 2021 Matthew Cullinan Hoffman 15

Mexico’s socialist president Andrés Manuel López Óbrador is on a crusade, or perhaps better put, an anti-crusade, to obtain an apology from Spain and the Catholic Church for the conquest and colonization of the Americas. […]

Analysis

Did comedian Dave Chappelle crack the LGBT edifice?

October 20, 2021 Matthew Cullinan Hoffman 41

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 […]

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