Will Federal Funding Cutbacks Spur the Catholic Church to a Mission Course Correction?
Catholic NGO funding scandal prompts calls for USCCB to pivot away from emphasis on pro-immigrant policies.
Catholic NGO funding scandal prompts calls for USCCB to pivot away from emphasis on pro-immigrant policies.
The desire live in the country is understandable, but Catholics cannot flee the cities.
As much as the American public is shocked by the ongoing DOGE revelations of our abuse by the Federal government, betrayal by spiritual leaders is infinitely worse.
We are witnessing a full-scale cultural swing away from the progressive policies and agendas that have defined the operations of major American institutions for the past decade, from education to government to media to entertainment.
There’s something to be learned from the pope’s actions, timing, and even (as I suspect this is) missteps—not necessarily because the pope is trying to teach us but because God always is.
Considered a dry subject by even mainstream standards, monetary policy is a subject Catholics should care deeply about as a broader electorate.
In hearing St. Ambrose, St. Augustine began to distinguish between mere eloquence and the real truth.
St. Valentine apparently did not meet the DEI criteria or the historical-critical requirement, so he was removed from the liturgical calendar.
The dominant narrative of victimized American Indians and victimizer white settlers has a tendency to obscure what the many civilizations and tribes of our continent’s indigenous populations were truly like.
Traditional Catholics are particularly susceptible to scrupulosity, because a (understandable) lack of trust in the leaders of the Church can lead to an increased reliance on one’s own understanding, and therefore scrupulosity.
The American Church in my lifetime, as an institution rather than as individual priests or bishops here and there, has done nothing to keep the working class in the fold.
The professional ecumenical class claims a common Easter would promote “Christian witness, unity, and evangelization.” The claim leaves me unconvinced because it does not address calendar differences.
The reign of DEI was a captivity, in which normal folks were terrified to speak openly, lest they be overheard and dismissed from employment, or worse.
It is not power, wealth, or numbers that will determine our fate, but rather our allegiance to truth, virtue, and the discipline of reason.
Catholics, especially younger Catholics, are urged under the name of charity to be more open to Protestants, which is difficult if not impossible to delineate from simply being less Catholic.
Homesteading has become trendy, but the Catholic Land Movement has been advocating for it for decades.
The Catholic people of the Vendée, aware of the horrors being unleashed by the stormtroopers of the French Revolution, responded courageously to the threat to their Faith and their way of life.
The resistance to RFK from the medical community might be due to corruption and greed. But it might just boil down to our instinct to enforce social conformity.
As a Canadian, I hope that Trump’s threats will serve as a reminder to my countrymen that we must be a strong country, economically, culturally, and spiritually.