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Cardinal McElroy, homosexuality, and the repudiation of doctrine

Tuesday, March 19, 2024


America’s least religious cities

Tuesday, March 19, 2024


Snakes have returned to Ireland

Monday, March 18, 2024


St Patrick’s Day: the Irish-American diaspora is as vibrant as ever

Monday, March 18, 2024


The difference between doctrinal development and cultural corruption

Friday, March 15, 2024


Will China launch a crackdown on Hong Kong confessions?

Friday, March 15, 2024


Catholics and slavery: the truth

Thursday, March 14, 2024


Putin’s lies about the Blessed Virgin

Thursday, March 14, 2024


‘A Clockwork Orange’ author’s prophetic novel

Wednesday, March 13, 2024


The Catholic midwife who delivered 3,000 babies at Auschwitz

Wednesday, March 13, 2024


The ugly truth about IVF

Tuesday, March 12, 2024


The pope’s favorite theologian

Tuesday, March 12, 2024


A Biden v. Trump rematch: In good conscience, can Catholics vote for either?

Monday, March 11, 2024


‘Queer’ pastoral care of the German bishops

Monday, March 11, 2024


IVF and the inconsistent ethic of life

Friday, March 8, 2024


Revoke ‘Fiducia supplicans’!

Friday, March 8, 2024


Leftist protestors: rage, psychosis, or possession?

Thursday, March 7, 2024


Modern martyrs of communism

Thursday, March 7, 2024


Italy’s lapsed Catholics reverting to paganism

Wednesday, March 6, 2024


Must priests be forced to concelebrate Masses?

Wednesday, March 6, 2024


Four ways of looking at Christian nationalism

Tuesday, March 5, 2024


What is inclusive language and why is it dangerous?

Tuesday, March 5, 2024


Vladimir Putin is no Christian hero

Monday, March 4, 2024


A profile of the next Pope

Monday, March 4, 2024


The rise of anarcho-tyranny in the West

Friday, March 1, 2024


The truth about Alabama’s ruling on IVF

Friday, March 1, 2024


Should the next conclave vote just once each day?

Thursday, February 29, 2024


“Gendered” nonsense is dangerous nonsense

Thursday, February 29, 2024


The year the pope canceled Lent

Wednesday, February 28, 2024


On shame

Wednesday, February 28, 2024


Is ‘Fiducia’ a new obstacle to Vatican’s peace push on Ukraine?

Tuesday, February 27, 2024


“None to make him afraid”: America’s central promise broken by antisemitism run amok

Tuesday, February 27, 2024


Catholic Georgetown’s extremist turn

Monday, February 26, 2024


Putin’s deadly fantasies

Monday, February 26, 2024


St. Peter Damian and the wounds of the Church

Friday, February 23, 2024


An age marked not so much by disenchantment as by desecration

Friday, February 23, 2024


‘Rave’ in the nave?

Thursday, February 22, 2024


Pope Francis is undermining Catholic tradition on just war

Thursday, February 22, 2024


About that ‘trans’ funeral at St. Patrick’s Cathedral

Wednesday, February 21, 2024


Feminists: Celebrate the Middle Ages (and the Catholic Church)!

Wednesday, February 21, 2024


The Awfulness of Elite Hypocrisy on Marriage

Tuesday, February 20, 2024


Rehabilitation and beauty at famed Milan opera house

Tuesday, February 20, 2024


Does ‘Fiducia supplicans’ affirm heresy?

Monday, February 19, 2024


Pope to Naples seminarians: The Church is a “work in progress”

Monday, February 19, 2024


Prepare for a Voyage on the Sea of Lent

Friday, February 16, 2024


Orwellian transgenderism

Friday, February 16, 2024


When feast and fast collide

Thursday, February 15, 2024


Can the Sacrament of Reconciliation even extend to Rudolf Hoess, commandant of Auschwitz?

Thursday, February 15, 2024


St. Valentine was no patron of love

Wednesday, February 14, 2024


Cardinal Müller: Efforts to explain ‘Fiducia supplicans’ only increase confusion

Wednesday, February 14, 2024