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Fr. James Martin recently carried the monstrance in the Napa Institute's NYC Eucharistic procession and sat for a friendly Pillar interview. Why are conservative Catholics suddenly embracing him?
Pope Leo XIV just had surgery for lung cancer. What happens to the Church when the pope is sick? There's no vice pope, so who's in charge?
Silicon Valley says it's building a god. We’ll discuss the new AI religion, Anthropic's push on AI consciousness, and the Catholic response.
The horrific nature of the now-infamous Cornell case should make every good-willed person ask: how did we get here? How has our society become so debased? We’ll explore the factors that led to our cultural demise.
The Vatican has come out strongly against the death penalty, and now it is convening a conference on Amoris Laetitia, which approved reception of Communion for divorced couples. What should a Catholic do when he disagrees with these viewpoints?
We live in interesting times, with algorithms controlling our online behavior, machines taking over our thinking, and talk of alien visitations increasing. Kale Zelden joins Eric Sammons to break it all down.
Many disaffected Trump voters are considering sitting out the 2026 midterm election. Is that justifiable? Can Catholics sit out this election? Should they?
Many Catholics talk about the crisis in the Church today, and many actions are defended in reaction to that crisis. But what exactly is the crisis and how should we respond to it?
More than a year into Pope Leo’s pontificate, and a few months after the SSPX episcopal consecrations, where is the traditional Catholic movement headed?
Last week’s AI scare is just the latest in a growing list of supposed existential threats to the world. Why is doomerism so popular, particularly in recent years, and what is the proper Catholic attitude toward these claims?
Increasingly our culture excuses all types of behavior from women, and exalts the most narcissistic behavior from them. How did this happen and how can we return to normalcy?
Since the murder of Charlie Kirk one year ago, the MAGA movement has fractured. What caused it, and can it be reunited before the midterms or even 2028?
The growing sentiment against artificial intelligence, which is found particularly in the anti-datacenter movement, is often based on emotionalism, ignorance, and politics.
Stories of large numbers of non-Catholics converting to Catholicism have filled social media in recent years. But what do the numbers really say about how many people are converting?
A Jewish feminist biblical scholar was recently elected president of the Catholic Biblical Association. How could such a thing happen?
The question of how many souls will be lost is a perennial question in Church history, with a variety of answers. But is it the right question to ask?
Pope Leo and other Church leaders have been sending mixed signals regarding the future of the TLM. Will Traditionis Custodes remain the law of the Church, or will we return to the days of Summorum Pontificum?
Here's the completion of the last podcast (which was interrupted by a tornado) in which we give practical advice to both young and old on how to survive—and thrive—in an era of rising prices.
In spite of claims that we’re entering a “Golden Age,” many young people are struggling under the weight of rising prices. What can Catholics—both young and old—do to help?
Almost forty years ago thousands of Christians were being arrested throughout the country for blocking abortion clinic doors. Here’s my first-hand account of what we did and why we did it—and how it changed the pro-life movement for both good and ill.