The pope is a pastor more than a thinker. We cannot expect the intellectual rigor of either of his two most recent predecessors. But am I the only one who feels like this “two steps forward, two steps back” is a little confusing?
Cardinal Sarah recently praised the American Church, indicating that she can impact the universal Church by rejecting the practical atheism the European Church has embraced.
The deep roots of our current social crisis lie in failed subsidiarity.
The division in French society over Alfred Dreyfus and the events that led to his conviction bear an eerie similarity to what is happening to American society over the crimes charged against Donald Trump.
A canonically-approved catechism, supported by many catechisms of the past, answers whether the Vatican has the authority to shut down the traditional Latin Mass.
Do not let anyone discourage us or tell us that it’s redundant, unnecessary, or foolish to speak the truth among our fellow Catholics.
The Trump-led Conservative Movement won’t save the nation, but it will at least keep the State from coming after practicing Catholics.
In 2024, it seems we have betrayed the classical ideals of beauty in favor of something more superficial and emptier, something that prioritizes shock value over substance.
Catholicism is everywhere in Uganda, but the Church faces challenges there as elsewhere.
How many Catholics take their sacramental characters anywhere near as seriously as the characters they tattoo on their bodies?
Fiducia Supplicans deeply and detrimentally affects the Catholic Church as a whole, as well as local Catholic communities.
Chesterton sat and wrote about great adventures; Belloc only wrote about them once he had been up and away and lived the adventure.
Few popes have lived in more perilous times than Pius XI and fewer still have shown as much courage in the midst of peril.
For those with eyes to see and ears to hear, the example of D-Day should remind us of another and very different battle, one which was fought a long time ago and on a far greater scale.
Seeking celebrity acceptance sacrifices seriousness and credibility. It is sad when leadership in the Church shows star-struck, stage door behavior.
Echoes of the Holy Trinity ring out in the hearts of fathers. Failing to appreciate this leaves them prey to the cultural vandals.
According to some critics, the main causes of the decline in churchgoing are to be attributed to conservatives. Let’s break down why that’s ridiculous.
Through the life and witness of the saint of Padua, we can learn how to navigate our time of heresies as well.
Our public memory of the Second World War we have inherited in the United States is a myth designed to propagate a political ideology.
