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Revisiting the lively wit and uncompromising pen of “Diogenes”

November 18, 2022 Paul Senz 3

Philip F. Lawler is the editor of Catholic World News (CWN), part of Catholic Culture, which he founded in 1996, making it the first English-language Catholic news service operating on the internet. He offers regular […]

The Dispatch

Intrinsic evil acts are stubborn things

August 5, 2022 Father Jerry J. Pokorsky 12

Paraphrasing John Adams, intrinsic evil acts are stubborn things. The Fifth Commandment prohibits murder. Abortion is murder. It is always and everywhere wrong. A person who commits — or formally cooperates in a direct abortion […]

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The Smoke of Satan provides clear, concise analysis of the episcopal crisis

November 15, 2018 Gregory J. Sullivan 20

“Through some fissure the smoke of Satan has entered the temple of God.” — Pope St. Paul VI in 1972 The sex-abuse crisis, now in its episcopal phase, is certainly the worst crisis the Church […]

Analysis

Whither the Church on “sensitivity” to homosexuals?

August 21, 2018 Thomas R. Ascik 55

To what degree does the campaign of American Jesuit Fr. James Martin become the agenda for parishes in the Catholic Church throughout the world? […]

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An idiosyncratic guide to papally-minimalist, free-market Catholicism

July 9, 2018 Dr. Leroy Huizenga 10

John Zmirak’s Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism is a witty, acerbic, and clear book that shows up the ongoing crisis in contemporary Catholicism. […]

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A Papacy of Contradictions

March 2, 2018 Dr. Samuel Gregg 36

Veteran journalist Phil Lawler asks hard questions in Lost Shepherd about where Pope Francis is—or isn’t—leading the Catholic Church. […]

Opinion

Sexploits and crisis: Is it 2002 revisited?

December 22, 2017 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 47

The current drama of Hollywood stars, media types, athletes and politicians is the fruit of the hyper-sexualization of society as a whole for decades at […]

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Is it possible that secular liberals, some of them anyway, are starting to realize that knocking the supports out from under traditional marriage may not be such a great idea? If so, and if their […]

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