We have reached such an extraordinary degree of political derangement within Catholic discourse in the U.S. that twelve bishops praying over the President of the United States now constitutes a scandal requiring public apologies and […]
Some weeks ago, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation demonstrated exactly why historical memory requires deliberate protection when its internal guidance instructed journalists to avoid independently describing 9/11 as a “terrorist attack.” This followed a decades-old CBC […]
Twenty years ago, a small social media platform called Twitter was launched into public life. Few imagined that a service built around brief updates would become one of the principal architects of modern consciousness through […]
The Society of Saint Pius X, unfortunately, finally carried out its long-threatened illicit episcopal consecrations at Écône on July 1. The entire fraternity has incurred excommunication latae sententiae (by virtue of the deed). The DDF […]
I recently read Bishop Joseph Strickland’s May 26th essay critiquing Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas (MH), and I wanted to comment on it by drawing insights from the encyclical itself. One of the more surprising criticisms […]
Beatrice Scudeler’s recent essay on the Public Discourse about Gen Z women and the internet fascination with “men who yearn” exposes a rather inconvenient truth for a culture that has spent sixty years telling women […]
The Catholic Church has a simple principle that ecclesial revolutionaries keep finding impressively difficult to understand: obedience to legitimate authority belongs to communion and covenant hierarchy rather than institutional convenience. The announced plan by the […]
These past few days have given us a series of civic episodes in which the public square seems to lose its mind all at once. Let’s consider just a few of them. Joy Behar said […]
Many are abuzz about Pope Leo XIV’s Palm Sunday homily. In order to provide some context, let’s consider what Pete Hegseth prayed at the Pentagon last Wednesday, March 25th. In leading a Pentagon Christian service, […]
A recent appeal from Pope Leo XIV urged patient diplomacy amid rising tensions between Western powers and the Islamic Republic of Iran. His words reflected the Church’s perennial instinct toward peace. Through long decades of […]
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