St. Stephen’s martyrdom served as most excellent proof of his fidelity to Christ
It was more than an appropriate coincidence that the First of all the Martyrs was a Deacon, for Martyrdom is the great proof of fidelity, and fidelity is the official virtue of the Deaconate.Read More
DeSantis is right: America’s Founding Fathers would never have recognized Satanism as a public religion
Official documents from the time of America’s founding make clear that religion means public worship and service of the One True God Who created the world, sustains it by His providence, rules it with His wisdom, and blesses it with His mercy. Read More
Was Vatican II a valid ecumenical council?
In 1982, Pope Benedict XVI (then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger) called some of the documents of the Second Vatican Council a ‘counter-syllabus’ to Pope Pius IX’s and Pope St. Pius X’s syllabi and encyclicals against the heresy of Modernism. How should we Catholics interpret such a statement?Read More
FULL LIST: Events surrounding the 2024 March for Life
This year’s March for Life takes place on January 19, 2024.Read More
19 states support Trump against Jack Smith’s efforts to speed up immunity case
Jack Smith is trying to force a fast trial on schedule to gain maximum interference with the GOP primary election, while Trump’s lawyers are calling him out for it.Read More
Why The Night of the Hunter is a Christmas Movie
The 1955 thriller The Night of the Hunter may be one of the best dramatizations of spiritual warfare ever to come out of Hollywood. In a way the film feels both ahead of its time—it’s direct and wise about the pragmatic realities of spiritual abuse—and helpfully behind our time—it believes in sin. It seems fitting […]
Vatican reports 20 Catholic missionaries murdered in 2023
In its annual report on Catholic missionaries murdered during the year, the Vatican-based news agency, Fides, noted what many of them had in common was living a normal life in areas where violence had become common.
Church and world must ‘respect, defend, esteem’ women, Pope Francis says
The world and the Catholic Church must respect and defend women and foster a motherly care for others to end dehumanizing cycles of violence, Pope Francis said Jan. 1.
Nicaraguan bishop asks world ‘not to abandon us,’ as president escalates anti-Catholic campaign
Since Christmas, Nicaraguan police and paramilitaries have detained more than a dozen priests, including an archdiocesan vicar, as the Sandinista regime escalates a campaign of terror against the Catholic Church — an institution it has struggled to subdue.
The Medieval Peasant Option
Shortly after the horrible news came out of the Vatican about blessing “same-sex couples,” I went on an already scheduled retreat for Christmas. Thanks be to God, I was able to unplug totally from work, news, and anything beyond the four walls of my home, my parish and my community. It was an experience of […]