Opinion

Presiders Be Gone – Give Us Priests!

A Roman Catholic priest sacrifices everything; his life is not his own. His example should be the model for our lives, for no Christian’s life is truly his own: it is Christ’s.

The Infrequency of Infallibility

The pope exercises no authority on his own, all authority having come from Christ. He is not, therefore, above the Church’s Doctrine of the Faith, but rather he is its custodian and protector.

Make Catholicism Penitential Again

Repentance is not a sometime dimension of the Church’s message, occasionally trotted out at Lent and maybe in a raging pandemic. It is an essential, everyday message of the Church.

Weekly Wrap-Up: April 16-22, 2022

The public transportation mask mandate is dropped, the U.S. is sending more than a billion dollars to Ukraine, and the pope’s health seems to be deteriorating. We’ll cover that and more on today’s Crisis Weekly Wrap-Up.

Father Stu: A Beautiful Story of Redemption

My enthusiasm for “Father Stu” was dampened after reading a negative review, but I found the film to be a wonderful story of God condescending to the most wretched of sinners and raising him up.

The Bishop Who Can Unite the Clans

Bishop Fulton Sheen can be a figure around which all orthodox Catholics—whether “traditional” or “conservative”—can unite in combatting our current crisis.

The Truce of ’68 Revisited

The “Truce of ’68,” in which dissent from Church teaching is allowed as long as one does not push for changes in controversial teachings, still holds but is crumbling.

The Yoke of Vaccine Mandates

The experiences of the first Christians should teach us not to put unnecessary burdens on our brothers and sisters, such as vaccines that violate one’s conscience.

Easter and the Eighth Day

Christians no longer even understand what the Eighth Day means, but reclaiming such ideas like the Eighth Day is no small part in the requisite work for the restoration of Christian culture.

The Cover-Up Continues

A priest credibly accused of ritual satanic sexual abuse is living and ministering at a well-known, well-respected institution that houses hundreds of vulnerable boys and girls, and officials do nothing.

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