My wife loves puzzles. She has been working on a thousand-piece puzzle since last December and is determined to complete it by herself. As she nears the end, I noticed that several pieces of the […]
Want proof of how successful parents have been in unexpectedly thwarting the progressive agenda in schools? The New York Times, the progressive conscience of America, has gone on the offensive against “book bans” initiated by […]
Twenty years ago, during the Long Lent of 2002, I began using the term “Catholic Lite” to describe a project that detached the Church from its foundations in Scripture and Tradition: a Catholicism that could […]
“The whole world woke up astonished to find itself Arian.” So lamented the fourth-century Church Father St. Jerome on just how fast a Christological heresy originating in Alexandra, Egypt spread within the Church with the […]
It was a secret meeting. On Oct. 24, 1999, the Vatican’s top officials met at the Congregation for the Clergy in Rome’s Piazza Pio XII, all the cardinal prefects of the relevant congregations and their […]
Editor’s note: This essay was published in German at kath.net last week and was translated into English, with the permission of the author, by Frank Nitsche-Robinson. Munich (kath.net) “Benedict’s lie!” – this accusation is haunting […]
There have been vast improvements in the techniques and technology of filmmaking since 1961, when Stanley Kramer made Judgment at Nuremberg. But it’s difficult to imagine any cast today improving on the extraordinary performances of […]
Pope Francis’s call for a more synodal Church is still something that has been more discussed than implemented. The 2022 Synod on Synodality will continue the discussion. However, there are a least two places in […]
In a recent Word on Fire video, Bishop Robert Barron comments on the currently fashionable chatter about “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (or DEI, as they are commonly abbreviated). In much political and cultural debate and institutional policy, […]
In 2016, Pope Francis gave an interview to Fr. Antonio Spadaro, editor-in-chief of Civiltà Cattolica, in which he wondered why it is that so many young people are interested in the traditional Roman liturgical rites, […]
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