Loosing and Binding
Penitents do not have an absolute right to absolution: they must meet what the sacrament itself requires for the forgiveness of sins.
Challenging Traditionalist Criticisms of St Josemaría
Some traditional Catholics criticize the founder of Opus Dei for his views on the papacy and his apostolate’s lack of enthusiasm for the TLM. But are those criticisms legitimate?
Rebuking the Spirit of Yellowstone’s Beth Dutton
The character of Beth Dutton in the hit series “Yellowstone” in many ways reflects the destructive consequences feminism continues to wreak on real American women.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in a Nutshell
There can be few more worthy winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature than Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who illustrates in his life and work the power of literature to transform society.
Confessions of a Creationist
Natural science is a great thing, and many great scientific advancements have helped us immensely. But evolutionary science is historically about as reliable as Faucian Bugle Science.
Dysconnected: An Excarnational Reckoning Is Coming
A new documentary makes sense of the insanity of the transgender movement.
Invest Your Funds Upon This Rock?
A new Vatican document proposes to give guidance for Catholic investors based on Catholic social teaching, but often falls into regurgitating liberal talking points on redistribution and environmental awareness.
Tridentine and Proud
Criticism of “Tridentine Catholicism” by modernists and even some defenders of the ancient Roman liturgy leads me to think the term should be embraced as a badge of honor.
A Unified Theory of “Backwardism”
What was so awful about the pre-Vatican II Church that its memory needs to be obliterated and those who hold to doctrines that are ancient in provenance must be labeled as “rigid” and psychologically damaged?
Transforming the Culture
Education is not the sole answer when it comes to forming good habits – we need to create a culture that rewards good behavior and punishes bad behavior.
Is China Really a Threat?
Too often conservatives conflate the internal policies of the CCP with a threat to the United States, so they support a belligerent attitude when it comes to China.
How Catholics Should Respond to Suicide Survivors
In efforts aimed at consoling the suffering and in saving souls, it is crucial to know the real danger that any initiatives to alleviate the pain and anguish of suicide survivors that depart from Catholic doctrine can be.
To the German Bishops: No, the Church Will Not Change
What is keeping the German bishops from leaving the Church? The Church, after all, will never change on the “pelvic issues” they care most about.
People, Look East
The venerable tradition of celebrating the liturgy toward the east (ad orientem) is symbolically and theologically more in keeping with the nature of the liturgy as a cosmic and eschatological sacrifice of Christ the high priest.
Gen Z Loves Big Brother
Gen Z’s apparent response to three years of controlled demolition of their freedoms and opportunities betrays a Stockholm syndrome-like affection for one’s abusers that is breathtaking.
The Roots of Woke: The Devil and Bella Dodd
A new book examines the life of a communist who worked to infiltrate Catholic seminaries and higher education—before Fulton Sheen brought her home.
The Theology of Thanksgiving
When we celebrate the Thanksgiving Meal of the Eucharist, we thank God for our deliverance from the bondage of sin and give thanks for Christ the Passover Lamb who was slain.
It Was Homosexual Abuse
Leftists deny the mountain of demographic data that draws a strong link between homosexuality and abuse of minors in the Church.
The Terror of Tenderness
Kindness, American style, detached from the Man upon the cross, has turned sour and sickly. It can justify anything.
Life Lost in Michigan: The Sad Saga of Proposal 3
Proposal 3 is an amendment to the Michigan State Constitution that enshrines a right to abortion—among a whole boatload of other reproductive “rights.”