As I write these words, sitting at my desk in Rome, we are heading into the second day of the conclave. By the time this is posted, we might have a new pope.  Therefore, instead […]

As noted in Catholic World Report, on May 2, 2025, Washington’s Democrat Governor Bob Ferguson signed Senate Bill 5375, “An ACT Relating to the duty of clergy to report child abuse and neglect” into law. A putative Catholic, […]

If a man has made it through seminary to the moment of ordination these days, he has likely studied the classical virtue tradition. He has learned that virtue lies between excess and defect. And he […]

The riddle of Japanese Catholicism has long fascinated me. At the end of World War II, Catholics were less than 1% of the population of Japan. Today, eighty years later, Catholics are less than 1% […]

The Biggest Scandal – “The darkest mystery of Francis’s 12-year reign was his persistent habit of shielding credibly accused and even convicted sexual predators from justice.” REVEALED: How the People’s Pope shielded sexual predators in […]

The election of a new pope always captures the world’s attention. The media cannot resist covering the intrigue of the most unique election process in the world. All eyes turn toward the chimney of the […]

Editor’s note: This interview was conducted in March, prior to the death of Pope Francis. A new book from Cardinal Marc Ouellet entitled Word, Sacrament, Charism: The Risks and Opportunities of a Synodal Church (Ignatius Press, 2025), is an […]

In the interregnum between the death of Pope Francis and the conclave to elect his successor, a quotation from Pope Benedict XVI—then Cardinal Ratzinger—has been making the rounds on social media. It comes from a 1997 […]

Coup de théâtre, as the French say, or colpo di scena in Italian, is an unexpected turn in a play or a film, often applied to real life when surprising developments unfold suddenly and to […]