It may not be a surprise to hear a Catholic convert who was tutored by Dominicans quoting St. Thomas Aquinas. But certainly nobody had the Vice President of the United States publicly citing the Dominican saint and referring to his…
“A religion that doesn’t interfere with the secular order will soon discover that the secular order will not refrain from interfering with it,” the venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen predicted over a half a century ago. That dark prophecy 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…
At this point, you may have seen the Vatican’s recently unveiled mascot for the 2025 Jubilee Year. She’s a brightly colored anime figurine in a yellow rain jacket with sky blue hair and colored rosary beads around her neck. She…
On Thursday, Kevin Ray Underwood was executed in Oklahoma, after having been convicted of the horrific murder of a ten-year-old girl. Oklahoma City’s Archbishop Paul Coakley lamented the murderer’s death at the hands of the justice system, writing on social…
There is a new sense of tranquility this Advent that may resemble that of the very first one two millennia ago. Shortly before the birth of Our Lord, the Roman republic was rocked by civil wars, assassinations, and much insecurity….
