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One of the Church’s blessings in this country has been its tax-exempt status. But is it also a curse?

The recent promotion of Bishop McElroy from San Diego to the cardinalate has led a clergy sexual abuse victim to tell her story about how the Diocese of San Diego has done little to help her.

Given its flawed reasoning, ambiguities, and blatant discontinuity with Tradition and Scripture, it would be a travesty to see Amoris Laetitia displace Veritatis Splendor as the blueprint for a new moral theology.

Msgr. Thomas Wells was killed 22 years ago today, the result of his efforts to root out active homosexuality in the clergy.

A Nigerian priest recounts the local response to the recent tragic shooting at a Nigerian Catholic church, and gives his thoughts on the environment that led to the persecution of Christians in Nigeria.

New Vatican regulations have led to forcibly-shuttered monasteries’ assets being claimed by a bureaucratic monastic federation, the diocese, and the Vatican, raising questions on how decisions are made.

There’s been great outcry and shock at Archbishop Cordileone banning Nancy Pelosi from Communion. Somehow, the Church and the world have progressed to a point where it’s unexpected for a bishop to condemn what is an obvious evil.

A new documentary attempts to cool down the “liturgy wars” while advancing the conversation in a productive way.

We now see an exodus from the parish school system to independent and classical curricula Catholic schools, schools focused on holding Catholicity at the center of their identity.

The arrest of Cardinal Zen brings to the fore some awkward questions about the Vatican’s cozy relationship with Beijing.

The response of Bishop Barron’s Word on Fire ministry to recent allegations of sexual misconduct by a prominent employee reveal a culture that prioritizes legalese over compassion.

Pope Francis recommended that we “make a mess.” Well, a mess we have – perhaps it’s time to clean things up?

I am traditional, but not because, as “progressives” often say, I want to go back to the time of “Pre-Vatican II,” or “the fifties.”  

Evelyn Waugh was not optimistic about Vatican II’s ambitious renovation project. He found the glib optimism surrounding the Council fatuous, the presumption repellent.

The Church used to pray that we might overthrow our enemies, but today we act as if we have no enemies.

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.

There must be a way forward for the Church that both restores and innovates; that is not defensive, yet is rooted in Tradition.

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.

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.

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