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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.

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.

Catholics have little reason for optimism today. But because of the Resurrection, we do have reason for hope.

Cardinal Sarah believes that the West’s greatest enemy has never been al-Qaida, ISIS, or China, much less Russia, but rather the West itself—and none of those professing to admire him have seen fit to notice.

The Church is not a democratic society, and attempts to make it so will not actually liberate the laity as promised.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church isn’t above question or critique, but such inquiries should challenge not *what* the Catechism teaches but, rather, *how* it teaches it.

The dissolution of the English monasteries is a blight on English history, and an example of a State grown out of control.

Archbishop Viganò has not become absorbed with politics. He has become absorbed with the Eternal, with seeing the Eternal in the affairs of the day.

The Church’s strategy of evangelization has been to accommodate ourselves to the culture, reversing the words of St. Paul; we grow old and stale, conforming to the world.

Pope Francis, in just a few words, tossed Catholic Just War Teaching into the doctrinal trash bin where it may be keeping company with Francis’ 2018 revision of the Catholic teaching on capital punishment. 

The history of the Faith is filled with astonishing reversals, so why can’t the Consecration of Russia have a miraculous impact?

Archbishop Viganò’s latest declaration contains language that seems to suggest that he is looking toward Eastern Orthodoxy.

The upcoming consecration of Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary raises many questions about Our Lady’s request and past consecrations.

Recent updates to Canon Law make it likely that we’ll see new and updated catechisms being used to propagate errors in faith and morals—a kind of “viral vector” for doctrinal innovation.

The USCCB plan to foster more reverence for the Eucharist could be done a lot cheaper, and a lot more successfully, with just a few simple steps.

“Men without chests” are those who lack any sense of the sublime, the beautiful, the homely, or the slovenly, the ugly, and the perverse. What is a Church without a chest?

Many are urging the pope to consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart. Aside from whether this has already occurred or not, there is the problem that there is no set way to “consecrate” a country.

The Church is conducting “listening sessions” for the laity, when she should be demanding much for the great adventure of the Cross.

Has the Bride of Christ become like an old widow, who, caught within her inertness and fixed habits, periodically looks out into the flock—and rails against it?

The treatment of Fr. Eduard Perrone by his bishop reveals a case of broken spiritual fatherhood.