There’s a lot of confusion among Catholics regarding our obligations to the pope. Do we have to agree with everything he says? Must we implement his political views? Are we allowed to ignore him? We’ll break down exactly when we must adhere to the pope’s views and when we don’t have to.
The dominant narrative of victimized American Indians and victimizer white settlers has a tendency to obscure what the many civilizations and tribes of our continent’s indigenous populations were truly like.
Traditional Catholics are particularly susceptible to scrupulosity, because a (understandable) lack of trust in the leaders of the Church can lead to an increased reliance on one’s own understanding, and therefore scrupulosity.
The American Church in my lifetime, as an institution rather than as individual priests or bishops here and there, has done nothing to keep the working class in the fold.
Catholics, especially younger Catholics, are urged under the name of charity to be more open to Protestants, which is difficult if not impossible to delineate from simply being less Catholic.
Homesteading has become trendy, but the Catholic Land Movement has been advocating for it for decades.
The more I pray the St. Michael Prayer, the more I am convinced of its benefits.
There’s a problem with black American culture, and it’s not racist to say that.
In all this talk about women’s role in the Church, a more vital and visible female role for the future of the Church has been drastically overlooked—that of the mother.
The new Notre-Dame de Paris would shock the saints and holy doctors who prayed within its hallowed columns and vaulted ceiling. But today its walls moan as they are compelled to embrace the hellscape of liturgical innovation.
The Church has long pointed out the dangers of technology, with even the earliest pages of Scripture noting the connection between technology and the line of Cain.
Once children are part of our lives, we need to think more carefully about the liturgy we attend week in, week out.
I am tired of new ideas. I don’t mean to say that I’m tired of learning. Nor do I mean that I don’t appreciate fresh takes on old subjects. But the constant reinvention of the wheel has worn me out.
Just as the Catholic Faith has been reduced to little more than an intellectual philosophy of life for the clergy—all head and no heart—the same happened to the laity, who depend on them for their spirituality.
The real division in political as in cultural and religious life is between those who accept that Christ is King over all nations and all men and those who do not.
The questions that AI raises about reality could end up justifying the claims of Christianity in the eyes of many.
We all know that the music at the typical Catholic Mass is often cheesy and inappropriate. But what can we do about it?
Some well-meaning Catholics are prone to advocate unapproved additions to the Deposit of Faith in response to attacks on that Deposit.
How can we live in such a way that overcomes the fakeness of everything around us?
Mel Gibson possesses a fear of the Lord combined with a reverence and long-held respect for the old and authentic traditions of the Catholic Church, which doesn’t necessarily reflect in his behavior and daily living.