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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.
Analysis

“Anti-science” vaccine skepticism rooted in the breakdown of institutional trust

October 12, 2021 Matthew Cullinan Hoffman 39

America’s media and health establishment are expressing horror and consternation at what has now become a mass resistance movement to the implementation of the COVID-19 vaccine, as millions insist they will not receive it despite […]

Features

German “synodal way” votes for blessing homosexual unions; defends contraception, masturbation

October 4, 2021 Matthew Cullinan Hoffman 77

The “Synodal Way,” a conference consisting of German bishops, priests, religious, and laity, on Friday approved a draft document that appears to undermine Catholic doctrine on fundamental points of sexual morality, offering a defense of […]

The Dispatch

Pope Francis says “attacks and insults” against him are “work of the devil”

September 21, 2021 Matthew Cullinan Hoffman 110

Pope Francis recently accused a “large Catholic television channel” of “attacks and insults” against him and opined that some people wanted him dead, adding that certain unnamed Catholic prelates had met to plan a new […]

Analysis

The Church as an endless “journey”: Pope Francis’ ambitious “Synod on Synodality”

September 18, 2021 Matthew Cullinan Hoffman 59

Pope Francis announced in March that the next Synod of Bishops, to be held in October of 2022, will discuss the topic of “synodality” – that is, the Synod will be talking about synods, synods, […]

Features

Mexican Supreme Court strikes down right to life legislation in historic reversal (updated)

September 8, 2021 Matthew Cullinan Hoffman 7

Updated Sept. 9th: On Thursday, September 9th, the court also voted to strike down the State of Sinaloa’s constitutional amendment protecting “the right to life from the moment that an individual is conceived.” One of […]

Features

Costa Rican priest suspended, sent for psychological treatment for celebrating Latin Novus Ordo

August 20, 2021 Matthew Cullinan Hoffman 53

A Costa Rican priest says he has been suspended, removed from his parish, and sent to psychological treatment by his bishop who is angry with him for celebrating the reformed liturgy in Latin and ad […]

Features

Pope Francis’ motu proprio on the usus antiquior defeats its own stated purposes

August 12, 2021 Matthew Cullinan Hoffman 61

Pope Francis new motu proprio on the traditional liturgy of the Roman Rite is, as so many commentators have already observed, a shockingly draconian exercise of papal authority, one that strikes at the heart of […]

Features

St. Peter Damian’s battle against clerical homosexuality offers useful lessons for today

February 21, 2019 Matthew Cullinan Hoffman 23

When the eremitic monk and reformer Peter Damian cast his critical gaze upon the Catholic Church of the mid-eleventh century, he encountered a panorama of corruption that would have appeared daunting even to the most […]

Features

Fr. Thomas Reese’s quixotic, irrational battle with Greek philosophy

January 11, 2018 Matthew Cullinan Hoffman 20

The former editor of America magazine would do well to read Benedict XVI’s 2005 “Regensburg Address” and Vatican II’s documents on seminary training and Catholic […]

Interview

The Third Secret of Fatima and the “Hermeneutic of Conspiracy”

November 27, 2017 Matthew Cullinan Hoffman 94

“I am convinced that we are entering into a new phase of Fatima’s history,” says the author of a new book on the controversial Third […]

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