The first full news cycle after the Vatican released a declaration allowing pastors to offer blessings for couples in irregular situations was filled with predictable handwringing, improbable popesplaining, and yet another round of doomsaying, mostly […]
Reactions have generally been negative to the December 5, 2023, appearance of three prestigious university presidents before the House Education and the Workforce Committee to address antisemitism on American college campuses in the wake of […]
In July 2023, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) received ten dubia (formal questions) from Cardinal Dominik Duka, Archbishop Emeritus of Prague, on behalf of the Czech Bishops’ Conference, regarding the proper […]
Hyper-analysis of Pope Francis’s Angelus this Sunday will likely run well into the week. That’s not because of anything he said or didn’t, but because of his brief and previously unannounced visit to Rome’s Tiber […]
Evidence continues to accumulate that the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City was not bombed on October 17th by Israel’s Defense Forces (IDF), but was hit by a misfired, faulty Palestinian rocket, most likely coming […]
The brutal massacre of Israeli women and children by Hamas terrorists on October 7th momentarily shocked the world. What seemed to shock people even more was the almost immediate demonstrations of “solidarity” with the Hamas […]
The role that eroticism plays in today’s world and in the Church is not well understood, even by those who are concerned about it in the first place. While everyone knows that there has been […]
“Praise God for all his creatures”. This was the message that Saint Francis of Assisi proclaimed by his life, his canticles and all his actions. In this way, he accepted the invitation of the biblical […]
The Church’s social doctrine is therefore of a theological nature, specifically theological-moral, “since it is a doctrine aimed at guiding people’s behavior.” “This teaching … is to be found at the crossroads where Christian life and […]
“Bonkers,” is the only word for the week that was, especially on the Catholic news beat, and with particular regard for a set of official questions called dubia in the technical language of ecclesialese. For […]
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