Archbishop Weakland, sworn by his office to teach what the Church teaches, did his best to undermine it, to sow indifference or contempt whenever the teachings touched upon his own most precious field of sin.
All politics, and culture, is a contest of elites. The question is, which elite will dominate the halls of politics and culture? Contingent to this question is who will benefit because of the elites in power?
We must be aggressive—yes, aggressive—about spreading the Faith.
The Black Lives Matter movement undercuts the legitimate—and consistent with Catholic Social Teaching—role of the police in our communities.
Was the prophet Elijah “fired” by God, as Bishop Barron alleges? Or is a better way to understand this biblical story?
Our Catholic schools need to be more Catholic, but it can be difficult to determine exactly what “being more Catholic” should entail.
It’s hard to be a kid these days. Your blue-haired teachers appear on Libs of Tik-Tok videos bragging about selling you into sex slavery, and people go “Ho-hum. How cute. Don’t judge.” If you’re a girl, the federal government and institutions like Boston Children’s Hospital will promote “gender affirming hysterectomies.” And, of course, also on … Read more
The recently-approved government definition of marriage is meaningless and built on a house of cards.
The relevance of C.S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy has grown more, not less, as the twenty-first century ushers in the “New Normal” and the “Great Reset.”
Liz Cheney famously said, “the truth matters.” The truth does matter, and Cheney’s rejection by the people of Wyoming is a clear demonstration that her repurposing of truth to gain political advantage will not be tolerated.
The death of a young mother revealed the deep impact founding a family can have.
Sexual activity among Catholic young people has declined but only partially and not to a degree that should give us much comfort.
Why did Pope Benedict XVI consider Anglican traditions “a precious gift” and a “treasure to be shared,” considering the Anglican church’s bloody history of schism from Rome?
The synodal process appears to be an attempt to make everyone complicit in the guilt of our leaders.
The single greatest contributor to our social pathologies such as addiction, mental illness, suicide, and violent crime is the breakdown of marriage and the family.
In an especially shameful statement of cowardice, a Vatican consultant wrote: “With ongoing military actions in the world today, raising someone from the military for veneration may not be appropriate for our Church.”
One should open the mind only in order to close it on something solid. Reality is never the result of my mind thinking it but rather my receiving it.
The new limitations on abortion access has moved Democrats to put the pressure back on men to get permanently sterilized.
If you have not seen a friend or family member for the better part of a decade, the assumption is that, when you do meet, you’ll notice that you’ve both added a pound (or five) for every year of absence. If you did not gain weight in the interim, blunt relatives demand, “How do you … Read more
The overarching spirit of “The Ball and the Cross” can be encapsulated in a comment that Chesterton made of his relationship with his brother: we were always arguing, but we never quarreled.