The expressed intent of the recent declaration of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith is to “illuminate different facets of human dignity that might be obscured in many people’s consciousness” (Dignitas Infinita, Presentation). To […]
Good pastors must imitate the Good Shepherd and warn their sheep of ravenous wolves. When Cain murdered his brother, Abel, God said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to […]
It’s fair to say he should have seen it coming. “He” in that sentence is Pope Francis. The thing that was coming, well, it came on Friday: a caustic statement from the Coptic Orthodox Church […]
In a recent decision, the Supreme Court of Alabama shocked the world by stating that babies in infertility clinics that are frozen, kept in suspended animation, and often forgotten, are human beings with a right […]
The Gospel for the Third Sunday of Lent this year (unless your parish is using the “scrutiny readings”) is John’s account of Christ cleansing the Temple (Jn 2:13-25). Jesus went up to Jerusalem for the […]
“Trads” (or devotees of the traditional Latin Mass), charismatic Catholics (or those who emphasize the charismatic gifts of the Holy Spirit in life and worship), conservative Catholics, liberal Catholics—we live in a time of great […]
The demagoguery surrounding last week’s Alabama Supreme Court ruling involving in vitro fertilization (IVF)—incendiary rhetoric being pushed by Democrats to stoke a new fear while making political hay over abortion—deserves refutation. It also deserves an […]
By now, unless you live under a rock or gave up all media for Lent, you have heard of the debacle that played out at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York (“America’s parish church”) on […]
Today I saw the headline, “Pope denounces ‘hypocrisy’ of those who criticise LGBT blessings.” I found that disconcerting, because I have been critical of LGBT blessings. It grieves me to be regarded as a hypocrite […]
“Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? And when he […]
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