The Life and Death of a Catholic Community
The story of a small faithful parish unable to weather the storm of Covid and diminishing numbers.
The Papal Push to Keep Latin Alive
Modern popes have been urging Catholics to embrace the Latin language. Will we follow their call?
Christ Reorients Webb
Even a casual glance or two at the astounding images being released from the Webb Space Telescope, that penetrating eye in the sky, can rapidly lead one to a crisis of orientation, a disorientation of meaning, of personal identity, of individual existence.
The Ahab Papacy
The Church has always been symbolized by a ship. Her crew are fishers of men. Some of the first were indeed fishermen, Peter most prominent among them. She is diminished in influence, careening from seeming moral orthodoxy to permissiveness.
Facing the Rising Barbarism
The rising barbarism we see all around us cannot be ignored, nor can we withhold the medicine to cure it.
The Case Against Contraception
Contraception is in Church news again, so it is pivotal that we know why the Church has always prohibited artificial contraception.
Bill Kristol Was the Standard
Bill Kristol has never explained his abrupt 180-degree change of views on key issues like abortion and same-sex marriage. Maybe he never cared in the first place. Maybe he lied to us all along.
Our Culture’s Diabolical Unsexing
The diabolical underpinnings of rejecting nature is a connection we too often forget when confronting the transgender movement today.
Religion’s Decline is Reason’s Decline
People don’t rely on logic and evidence for most of the decisions they make; they follow the suggestions of their media, their tribe, and their appetites. This has led to a decline in Christianity.
Get With the Times
The pope has not bothered to call upon those faithful who love the old rite to speak with them. He has spent less time critiquing the old rite than he has spent belittling that small portion of the faithful who will not go along with his disdain.
Respect the Doctrine
While the “Doctrine of Discovery” can be rescinded, the call to evangelize and convert all nations cannot be.
In Praise of the (Former) Society of Jesus
The Jesuits used to be God’s Marines. They have become God’s embarrassment.
Where the Synodal Way Leads
Other churches that have adopted a “Synodal Way” have experienced a loss of membership, a loss of doctrine, and a loss of identity.
When Abuse Occurs in a Sacramental Context
What has not been widely addressed in the Church is whether abuse that takes place during the celebration of a sacrament is a sacrilege against that sacrament.
Why We Should Fight
I have vowed for the last 50 years that I would never again allow evil to take me without a fight.
The Man Who Was Thursday in a Nutshell
The Man Who Was Thursday shows us the paradoxical truth that it takes a big man to know how small he is.
When Saying “I’m Sorry” Is Never Enough
Leftists in Canada have been demanding apologies from the Church, even for things she didn’t do, and even though it won’t satisfy them anyway.
Conversion Is Not a Four-Letter Word
Tomorrow, July 30th, is the 100th anniversary of Chesterton’s reception into the Catholic Faith. Let us look to him for a deeper understanding of the importance of calling non-Catholics to conversion to the Church.
It’s Not for the Pope to Change
We may have a third, and perhaps most catastrophic, change coming to Catholic teaching under the pontificate of Francis.
CDC Leaders Continue to Mislead About Monkeypox
The fact that nearly all of the documented cases of monkeypox have emerged in the population of men who have sex with men seems to suggest that the disease has a behavioral component to it. But many just don’t want to acknowledge that.