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Those outside the Catholic Church simply scratch their heads in bemusement and dismay at the effect one word can have on a sacrament, yet they will be up in arms if someone gets a pronoun wrong.

The 1990’s was a great time to be a Catholic, but there were hidden troubles that we still need to confront today.

Uncle Sabnacke has some new advice for his demonic nephew Belphegor.

The Church in Nigeria is in danger of falling to the same sad fate as North Africa, losing the faith due to it not being truly incarnated in the culture.

The strict Covid policies in many Catholic schools make physical safety an idol and could very well destroy the faith of our Catholic school children if we don’t remedy the situation.  

Is it really true, as Pope Francis said, that “No one can exclude themselves from the Church?”

A revealing 1968 documentary on the American Catholic Church tells us exactly what we need to avoid if we want the Church today to thrive.

I believe that the Covid pandemic and the horrific response to it were directly caused by the veneration of Pachamama in the Vatican.

The only way to approve of or even condone any form of mock-marriage, homosexual or otherwise, is to deny that we have access to objective reality outside of our feelings about it.

What are Catholics to think when bishops forbid ancient liturgical practices but allow egregious abuses?

Current problems in both the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Churches could providentially lead to a healing of the Great Schism.

Since Gregorian chant has not been banned, and since most people actually enjoy dabbling in another language once in a while, we might well inject the germs of beauty into our Masses.

Does Petrine supremacy mean that the pope can take power away from the world’s bishops and give it to a small group of Italian priests known as the Roman Curia?

Priests need to stop accompanying sin and call out the abusers and heretics in their midst.

Recent accusations against Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI remind us that the Church is still in need of a deep scouring.

A generational divide is at the heart of the wider divisions of faith currently roiling the Church, with younger priests more traditional than their older compatriots.

Treating the pope as a “super-bishop” who is the only necessary member of the Church militant is a crime against sound theology.

The short, impossibly complex songs—let’s call them ditties—played during modern Catholic Masses are a major distraction to the solemn, prayerful state of mind we should aim to enter.

Whatever power Christ conferred upon Peter, and all his successors down through the centuries, is not about this or that pope’s own private preferences, but rather the clear and public defense of a common faith.

Restoring the Last Gospel (John 1:1-14) to the end of Mass would be a bulwark against the disturbing trends of our culture.