We don’t need to know why Fr. Chad Ripperger was asked to step out of the limelight. But today’s cult of celebrity exorcists feeds an unhealthy curiosity about the demonic, and any good priest should want to live his vocation in hiddenness.
Athletes who walk off the court during the national anthem reveal what sports have become. Once touted as the place where character was formed, sports have become an epicenter of privilege.
The DDF’s new document Venite ad me deliberately avoids “terminological precision,” and it misses the real story. “Epochal change” is not the problem; the failure of faith is what it is all about.
To stay respectable in a materialist culture, even orthodox Catholics have turned miracles into safe metaphors. A disenchanted world will only be converted by a Church that speaks with the absolute conviction that the physical veil has been pierced.
The new documentary You Can See Everything never settles whether Elizabeth Holmes was victim or victimizer. But it does make one important point: a person can be allowed to see everything and still come away learning nothing.
“White coats can make acceptable what brown shirts can’t.” From lethal injections to Canada’s MAID regime, dressing death up as medicine sanitizes killing and explains away our fallen nature.
Catholic marriages have collapsed since 1975, and one overlooked obstacle keeps young Catholics from even dating: cringe. With St. Thomas Aquinas as our guide, Catholic young adult culture can become more beautiful, more friendship-centered, and more natural.
Earning something may give us a right to possess it, but not freedom from responsibility for its use. Has personal comfort replaced our Christian responsibility to future generations?
We need to defend a Catholic sense of “triumphalism.” Since truth and the triumph of Christ are inseparable, politeness must not mute the Faith.
When Pilate asked “What is truth?” he did not stay for an answer. Yet the answer was standing before him, and its silence spoke more eloquently than any argument.
In almost 35 years as a Catholic, I’ve seen the Church bend quite a bit through scandal, corruption, and confusion. But it hasn’t broken, and it won’t, because the Lord has promised to protect it.
Fr. James Martin wants you to believe homosexuals hear relentless condemnation from the pulpit. His stories are what Mark Twain would call “stretchers” and I would call, well, lies.
Roe v. Wade has fallen, but abortions are rising and Catholic apathy is suffocating the pro-life movement. It’s time for the faithful to pray, give, teach, and show up to witness for life.
Twenty years after The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins is still trotting out the same tired arguments. Meanwhile, philosophy, science, and a wave of conversions have shown that God was never so easily explained away.
Moments after preaching that death comes for us all, an Ecuadorian priest was killed at the altar by a falling crucifix. The shocking tragedy invites us to contemplate the awful weight of the Cross and the swiftness of death.
The alleged Cornell gang rape exposes a debauched youth culture the American Church has largely failed to confront. The Church must rebuild America’s moral demography—starting in each human heart.
A new iconoclasm denies not Christ’s image in paint, but God’s image in our own human nature.
Unwelcome, overly loud music—“loudcasting”—has become the norm in public spaces. Our aversion to silence is crowding out manners, health, and the stillness in which we meet God.
Fr. Mario Portella is right that the postliberalism of Carl Schmitt is incompatible with Catholic teaching, but not every postliberal project is Schmittian. Some can be defended within the Catholic intellectual tradition.
The condemnation of Quietism in the seventeenth century unleashed an anti-mystical crusade that drove contemplation out of Catholic spirituality and left a man-centered moralism in its place.