The Conformist Cardinals
Their Eminences want everyone to understand that they dissent from the Catholic faith, but they don’t want to say it directly.
Feminized Faith, Failed Families, and Fertile Fields
Hope-filled in its conclusion, a new book offers the Catholic community a fresh look at current issues, addressing them with scholarly and thoughtful argumentation, and peaceful and commonsense rhetoric.
Is My Pet in Heaven?
We should avoid the temptation to provide a peremptory, dismissive—and often negative—answer to this frequently-asked question.
J.K. Rowling Demonstrates How to Handle the Woke Mob in Three Easy Steps
Without resorting to intimidation, compromise, excuses, or deception, Rowling confronts her opponents and puts them in their place.
Development of Doctrine and Its Discontents
Development of Doctrine—a legitimate way to understand how the Church’s teaching appears different in different ages—has become a way to introduce innovations contrary to the Church’s perennial teachings.
The Tyranny of Gender Ideology in Practice
Gender ideology has become an obsession throughout the West, and it’s transforming into a practical tyranny.
The Equalization of Religions and the Troublesome Abu Dhabi Declaration
The Abu Dhabi Declaration suggests an equalization of religions, a problem that has plagued interreligious dialogue since the beginning.
The Joys of Not Being a Scripture Scholar
Our business is to journey on in unceasing search of God, the sheer outpouring of whose Word upon the Scriptures suffuses every page with the presence of Another.
The Abortion Militancy of the Department of Defense
The DoD’s promotion of abortion – including paying for servicewomen to abort their children – puts active service members in a moral dilemma.
If You Want a Happy Marriage, Take the Marital Debt Seriously
Few subjects raise such ire and disgust as the marital debt, but it is the teaching of the universal Church, and it does matter.
Unity, Charismatic Masses, and Africa
Part Four of a response to Cavadini, Healy, and Weinandy’s critique of the traditional Latin Mass.
Signs of Hope: A Catholic Experience of Street Evangelization
Whereas we expect to be met with hostility when we attempt to share our Faith with others, often the experience is just the opposite.
The Asbury Revival and the Long Game of Faith
While Catholics may rightly admire and be inspired by such moments as the Asbury Revival, it is important that they look beyond the moment as well.
“In the Land of Promise”: An Encounter with a Pro-Life Painting
A relatively obscure painting speaks to the Pro-Life movement, to the shifting sands of familial ideologies, and to the necessity of loving the simple and domestic realities of life.
Pope Francis’s Schism
If Pope Francis drops his nuclear bomb on Tradition, this will create a schism in the Church.
All You Need Is Love?
This past half-century or so has seen the word love dragged through the mud. Once a queen; now a harlot.
The Fallibility of Popes, According to St. Paul and St. Gregory
Infallibility is not to be generalized to all the pope’s statements, just as it must not be confused with impeccability. The pope is human and can sin like all of us. He can also be mistaken about things.
By Their Works Ye Shall Know Them
In our increasingly all-present welfare state, we must realize that working for our daily bread is not a necessary evil but a means to ensuring man’s dignity and humanity.
You Need to Fast More
Is modern man not cut out to fast? Should we only strive to achieve the Church’s very minimal standard of fasting?