An Open Marriage Manifesto?
An Open Marriage Manifesto? In 2002, Meredith Berkman sued the manufacturer of the nutritionally dubious snack Pirate’s Booty for $50 million because its label claimed it was “Good For You.” When pressed to defend its claims, the company’s founder insisted the snack bags were making a different assertion altogether: it’s not that Pirate’s Booty is […]
Abrahamic Dialogue in the Shadow of War
Abrahamic Dialogue in the Shadow of War In February 2023, global religious leaders met in the United Arab Emirates to celebrate the opening of the Abrahamic Family House, a soaring multifaith complex encompassing a mosque, a church, and a synagogue. The grand opening came exactly four years after Pope Francis travelled to Abu Dhabi to […]
Reflection for the First Sunday of Lent
Reflection for the First Sunday of Lent Last summer’s wildfire in Joshua Tree National Park was the largest to burn through the eastern Mojave Desert in recorded history—surpassing the 71,000-acre Hackberry complex fire of 2005, and, as The Los Angeles Times put it, “searing through a delicate ecosystem already strained by invasive species and the […]
Celebrating Pink Vestments
Celebrating Pink Vestments It happens twice a year, in March and in December, and somehow it always catches me off-guard. I’m talking about the unofficial Catholic ritual that I call Toxic Masculinity Sunday. Surely you’ve had this experience: You join the assembly to celebrate Mass in the midst of a penitential season, whether Advent or […]
The Summit on Abuse, Five Years Later
The Summit on Abuse, Five Years Later Five years ago this month Pope Francis convened the Meeting on the Protection of Minors in the Church at the Vatican. The first-of-its-kind meeting—announced in September 2018—was an acknowledgment of the global dimension of the clerical abuse crisis, which after a year of revelations and reports was becoming […]
The Power of a Woman’s Voice: “Cabrini” Director Says Film Inspires the “Fight for Good”
On March 8, 2024, Angel Studios will release “Cabrini,” a film about the life and mission of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini. Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini was the first canonized saint from the United States. As a Catholic sister, she immigrated from Italy and founded almost 70 institutions worldwide. These facilities included orphanages, hospitals, and schools […]
Vatican sponsors youth guide promoting ‘values’ of ‘heretical’ interfaith Abu Dhabi document
A group of students will share the ideas of a document that Bishop Athanasius Schneider warned would ‘suffocate (the Church’s) burning zeal to evangelize all men.’Read More
Majority of Canadians approve of euthanasia but not for mental illness, poll finds
While the survey unfortunately found that 77 percent of Canadians support the state’s MAiD euthanasia program, it also found that only 42 percent want to expand it to allow for the killing of people suffering solely from mental illness.Read More
VIDEO: Here’s a view of Communion time in a German church.
Remember… there’s only one expression of the Roman Rite and the Traditional Latin Mass and every person who wants it must be suppressed and marginalized. With that in mind, here’s a view of Communion time in a German church. The … Read More →
GOP senators propose bill to protect aborted babies from gruesome medical experimentation
‘This legislation would stop the Biden administration’s gross abuse of taxpayer funds,’ U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, the bill’s chief sponsor, said.