Old Dominion’s Catholic bishops are calling on lawmakers to halt assisted suicide bills working their way through the state legislature. Bishops Michael Burbidge of the diocese of Arlington and Barry Knestout of the diocese of Richmond issued a statement last…
This Sunday’s television lineup may look a little bare without the customary evening NFL games, but that doesn’t mean you have to give up watching TV. Instead, tune in to EWTN’s popular show Franciscan University Presents to watch the editor…
I read that the New York Post has internationalized the controversy over the “gay Christ” poster (so named by the media) that announces this year’s Holy Week in Seville. The poster truly is as awful as the excessive controversy that…
Immigration has been a hot-button issue for years. But with Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s recent declaration that illegal immigration at America’s southern border constitutes an “invasion,” the button has gone from hot to scorching. Many self-described but poorly-catechized Catholics —…
The Archdiocese of Washington is challenging the constitutionality of Maryland’s new Child Victims Act. The 2023 legislation took effect in October and lifts the statute of limitations for lawsuits alleging child sexual abuse, much akin to legislation approved in numerous…
Nicaragua’s anti-Catholic regime rounded out 2023 with nearly 20 Catholic clerics imprisoned, earning sharp criticism, especially from the U.S. On New Year’s Eve, Fr. Gustavo Sandino Ochoa became the 15th priest abducted by President Daniel Ortega’s paramilitary police in December….
One year ago today, countless Catholics lost their spiritual father. The present pontificate has been, in the words of the late Cardinal George Pell, “a disaster in many or most respects; a catastrophe,” leaving faithful Catholics feeling as if they’ve…
The announcement from the Vatican last week that priests would be permitted to bless same-sex couples shook the Catholic Church. The Vatican declaration made clear (as countess faithful Catholics have pointed out, including myself) that the Church’s moral teachings and…
Continuing its commitment to abusing the religious freedom and human rights of its people, the government of the People’s Republic of China, in collaboration with the Hong Kong government, began the trial this week of media mogul Jimmy Lai, who…
