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On the USCCB’s revised “Ethical and Religious Directives” for Catholic hospitals

November 19, 2025 John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. 0

The Plenary Assembly of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) meeting in Baltimore, November 10-13, is probably most widely known for its “Special Message” on immigration. But another important document came out of […]

Features

What the bishops got wrong on immigration

November 18, 2025 Father Jerry J. Pokorsky 27

The Apostles’ Creed teaches that the Church, as the Body of Christ, is one, holy, catholic, and apostolic. The Church herself—understood as the Mystical Body and safeguarded by the Holy Spirit—cannot be the object of […]

Features

What the bishops got right on immigration

November 18, 2025 Kenneth Craycraft 16

Through recent comments from Pope Leo XIV and a statement by the United States Bishops at the end of the annual meeting of the USCCB, immigration is again in the headlines of both secular and […]

Essay

Newman on the Sacred Liturgy, Part Two

November 17, 2025 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 2

Editor’s note: Part One of this essay was posted on November 10, 2025.   The Place of Externals in Worship With the three pillars of reverential fear, stability and continuity, and orthodox teaching in place, […]

Columns

On the surprising sanity of Bill Gates on climate change…

November 16, 2025 Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. 45

I didn’t see this coming. I could hardly believe the news article that came across my desk the other day: none other than Bill Gates was urging climate advocates to rethink their priorities and rhetoric […]

Analysis

Casual Sex, No Casual Dating, No Courtship

November 15, 2025 Dr. Randall B. Smith 35

My students report an alarming fact. They live in an environment, they say, in which there is casual sex, but no casual dating. Why would that be? One reason there might be so little casual […]

Essay

On Nick Fuentes and the rise of the woke right

November 14, 2025 Marcus Peter 157

The rise of Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and the growing faction known as the “woke right” is one of the strangest spectacles in contemporary political life. What began as a reaction against the […]

Columns

Catholicism and the American Founding: A further response to “The Great American Story”

November 13, 2025 Dr. Christopher Shannon 11

“No taxation without representation!” Every American school boy and girl learns this as the rallying cry that inaugurated the sequence of events that led to the birth of the United States of America. In this […]

Essay

On the Taliban and the dehumanizing “regulations” of radical Islam

November 11, 2025 Luma Simms 60

The Taliban, who took control of Kabul and overthrew the government of Afghanistan in August 2021, have set up a ministry for the propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice. In August 2023, they […]

Essay

Newman on the Sacred Liturgy, Part One

November 10, 2025 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 6

Editor’s note: The following address was delivered to the Theology Department of the University of Dallas on November 5, 2025, and is posted here in two parts. When thinking of John Henry Newman, one’s thoughts […]

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