The Dispatch
Our Lady of Fatima, ideology, and the Vatican’s homosexual crisis
Both radical feminism and homosexuality have no use for healthy, ordered, loving men and women, parents, and children. […]
Fr James Martin SJ
Chapp's Schtick
Synodality and the continued and deceptive use of “People of God”
Johathan Liedl, a reporter with The National Catholic Register, has written a very important article on one of the more influential theologians of the upcoming Synod on synodality in October. The article got some traction […]
Analysis
The serious problems with the “radical inclusion” delusion
The Synod 2021-24 is, apparently, constructing Fr. James Martin’s bridge. The authors of the Instrumentum Laboris (IL) for this fall’s Vatican gathering have embedded — rather disingenuously — an acronym that derives from and embraces […]
Features
The need for clarity in a time of moral and doctrinal ambiguity
“So faith, hope, love abide, these three,” Saint Paul reminds us, “but the greatest of these is love” (1 Cor. 13:13). The Sacrament of Penance is a Sacrament of mercy. In the service of love, […]
News Briefs
Documentary depicts ‘LGBT Jesus,’ highlights Catholic dissenters
CNA Staff, Feb 3, 2021 / 04:58 pm (CNA).- An upcoming documentary aims to revise Catholic iconography for those who self-identify as LGBT and will depict Jesus Christ as “a member or ally of the LGBTQ+ community.” It includes appearances from Father Ja… […]
Features
Abp. Chaput responds to Fr. Martin regarding “LGBTQ” Catholics, discusses synod
Yesterday, at the Synod on Young People in Rome, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. of Philadelphia gave two interventions that included specific criticisms of the Instrumentum Laboris – the working document for the synod — and some […]
Features
Bishop Eleganti: “The Pope’s silence is a classic non-denial!”
“The attempts to rewrite the traditional doctrine that regards homosexual acts as disordered in themselves,” says the Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Chur, Switzerland, “and […]
Essay
Abusing Zacchaeus
Fr. James Martin’s approaches to interpreting Scripture have a long pedigree in Western Christianity; they’re largely rooted in the modernism of liberal Protestantism. […]
The Dispatch
Fr. James Martin is not thinking with the Church
What Fr. Martin writes and says seems guided more by GLAAD than by God, and is more aligned to the thinking of the World than […]
The Dispatch
Observers remain “mystified” over Pope’s remarks on clerical sex abuse, and call for bishop accountability
The Vatican deemed Bishop Barros’ accusers credible. Why doesn’t the Pope believe them when they say the bishop knew about their abuse? […]