America’s Catholic bishops are decrying the evils of human trafficking, while ignoring their own role in facilitating the dehumanizing practice amidst the illegal immigration crisis. Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, Texas, chairman of immigration activities for the U.S. Conference…
Faithful Catholics have been saddened by the allegations — most recently suggested by Vice President JD Vance — that their Church has been complicit in creating the humanitarian crisis at the border. Vance pointed out that the Catholic Church has…
President-elect Donald J. Trump is to be inaugurated Monday and his mass deportation program is slated to begin Tuesday. While a number of Catholic bishops have spoken out against Trump’s deportation plans (I’ve covered the subject for The American Spectator…
As President-elect Donald Trump is just days away from returning to the White House, American Catholic leaders are denouncing his immigration agenda. Chicago’s powerful Cardinal Blase Cupich warned in a recent interview that U.S. bishops “are going to have to…
Pope Francis turned 88 years old last month, yet he remains as energetic as ever in influencing the direction of the Catholic Church. This week, the Roman pontiff named the very progressive Cardinal Robert McElroy as the archbishop of the…
Washington, D.C. is about to receive a new archbishop: a staunch opponent of incoming President Donald Trump and a champion of dissident LGBT causes. The Vatican announced last week that Cardinal Robert McElroy, currently the bishop of San Diego, would…
Pope Francis appointed Cardinal Robert McElroy to succeed Cardinal Wilton Gregory as the Archbishop of Washington. A progressive voice in the American hierarchy, McElroy’s imminent move to the nation’s capital seems more political than pastoral. McElroy has previously sparked controversy…
In his apocalyptic novel Lord of the World, first published in 1907 and centered on the Catholic Church’s final stand against Masonic globalism and communism, author and priest Robert Hugh Benson imagined that the penultimate Pope will spend his time…
Long before little Linus walked onstage with his blue blanket in 1965 to deliver a monologue from the Gospel of St. Luke, another television show answered that question burning in the hearts of men every winter, so succinctly phrased by…
