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The Flemish bishops caused a stir this week by issuing a document outlining a liturgy for blessing same-sex couples. In doing so, they abandon the way of the Lord.

The real problem behind the Synod on Synodality is the fatally-flawed underlying presuppositions about how the Church operates and the role of the laity in shaping it.

In times of need, we discover that so-called “nonessential services”—which our political and religious leaders denied us two years ago—are actually not so nonessential after all.

In the Church, specialists should not rule, but instead it is the bishops who should act as “experts of the whole.” But, in practice, they often abandon this duty.

Pope Francis has declared that a plurality of religions is “willed by God.” What does this mean, and, more importantly, is this true?

When Catholics in a typical parish are served lounge music instead of sacred music, their souls suffer a kind of dry rot. They experience not the “fear and trembling” of Calvary but only the wispy breezes of the musical theater.

Princess Anne’s curtsy to the coffin of Queen Elizabeth reminds us of our duty to venerate our true Queen, the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Many churchmen are generally unaware of the real reasons why people are leaving the Faith in droves and why younger generations are not drawn to the Church. 

Bishop Thomas Daly recently spoke out against the trend of even Catholic schools accepting the lies of the transgender movement.

A look at the Church’s past makes clear that if the Holy Spirit guides the Church, He does it with a light touch.

The conclusion of a recent book published by the Pontifical Academy for Life is not the result of a different evaluation of the purpose of the marital act but of a radically different view of what constitutes the moral goodness or evil of any action.

I’m an angry, disgusted Catholic these days. I’m stunned, horrified, furious, and grieved. But the way is narrow, the Cross is calling, and I want to finish the race marked out for me. I cannot do it without the Church.

How Shia LeBeouf’s Conversion Gives Insight into What Attracts Millennials, Particularly Men, to the Church.

Diversity and inclusion have completely replaced the Gospel as the raison d’être of many protestant denominations, and that ideology threatens to infect Catholicism as well.

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.

We must be aggressive—yes, aggressive—about spreading the Faith.

Was the prophet Elijah “fired” by God, as Bishop Barron alleges? Or is a better way to understand this biblical story?

The synodal process appears to be an attempt to make everyone complicit in the guilt of our leaders.

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.”

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.