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Vatican trial evokes things we thought were in the past

Thursday, December 7, 2023


Whatever Happened to Saint Nicholas?

Thursday, December 7, 2023


The liturgy wars at 60

Wednesday, December 6, 2023


Disney’s “Wish” unfulfillment

Wednesday, December 6, 2023


When “climate ‘activists’” disrupt the opera

Tuesday, December 5, 2023


The dangers Pope Francis avoided by not going to Dubai

Tuesday, December 5, 2023


In the Cold War, Kissinger’s realism bowed to John Paul II’s vision

Monday, December 4, 2023


Canada Rights Commission: “colonialist” Christmas is “discriminatory”

Monday, December 4, 2023


St. John Henry Newman and ‘The Infidelity of the Future’

Friday, December 1, 2023


The ACLU: Lost to leftist ideology

Friday, December 1, 2023


When docs play deities

Thursday, November 30, 2023


Cardinal Becciu’s Nixon moment: insists he’s not a crook

Thursday, November 30, 2023


Synod on Synodality: a new springtime or Pandora’s box?

Wednesday, November 29, 2023


God’s plan for our salvation

Wednesday, November 29, 2023


Do papal overtures to Muslims compromise the Church’s relationship with Jews?

Tuesday, November 28, 2023


The next papal conclave

Tuesday, November 28, 2023


We need a deeper theology of synodality

Monday, November 27, 2023


How thankful are Americans for their blessings?

Monday, November 27, 2023


St. John Henry Newman: Doctor of the Church?

Thursday, November 23, 2023


My experience at the Synod

Thursday, November 23, 2023


AI aids ancient chant

Wednesday, November 22, 2023


America’s vocation crisis continues

Wednesday, November 22, 2023


What Pope Francis could learn from ‘Fides et Ratio’

Tuesday, November 21, 2023


The myth of the white Catholic Democrat

Tuesday, November 21, 2023


JFK: Martyr of the Cold War

Monday, November 20, 2023


What did Pope Francis say?

Monday, November 20, 2023


‘Do not kowtow to this evil’: a Chinese Catholic speaks

Friday, November 17, 2023


Can Christian leaders speak truthfully about Gaza?

Friday, November 17, 2023


The Catholic crisis: Where we go from here

Thursday, November 16, 2023


Ireland’s rebellion against God

Thursday, November 16, 2023


Plenty of blame to go around on Bishop Strickland’s case

Wednesday, November 15, 2023


Understanding predestination

Wednesday, November 15, 2023


Putting the ecstatic in history

Tuesday, November 14, 2023


More kowtowing to China as senior state bishop visits Hong Kong

Tuesday, November 14, 2023


Cardinal Sarah: Church crisis is a Magisterium crisis

Monday, November 13, 2023


Facing the truth about Hamas

Monday, November 13, 2023


A drag show at Notre Dame

Friday, November 10, 2023


Vocation Awareness Week: 5 ways men and women are called to vocation

Thursday, November 9, 2023


The grave sin of Jew-hatred

Thursday, November 9, 2023


A half-century of change in religion and politics

Wednesday, November 8, 2023


The Vatican does not understand U.S. Catholics

Wednesday, November 8, 2023


Jordan Peterson’s wife converts to Catholicism

Tuesday, November 7, 2023


Archbishop Gänswein’s new book: detailed, informative, never sensational

Tuesday, November 7, 2023


Prayer is a challenge, like Jacob wrestling with God

Monday, November 6, 2023


Synod fatigue

Monday, November 6, 2023


A synodal Church will be guided by the spirit of the age

Friday, November 3, 2023


All Saints, All Souls and the Synod

Friday, November 3, 2023


Melting down America and the Church

Thursday, November 2, 2023


St. John Paul II: Mr. October

Thursday, November 2, 2023


Thomas More College honors two Catholic heroes

Wednesday, November 1, 2023