As a child, I loved clouds. I would spend lazy summer afternoons on my back in the grass in my parents’ front yard under a massive maple tree watching the clouds float by and my siblings and I would tell…
The Stigmatists: Their Gifts, Their Revelations, Their Warnings by American Spectator Editor Paul Kengor will be published on September 3, 2024. You can purchase the book here. The date was September 14, 1224. For the Catholic Church, it was the…
The incoming archbishop of the notorious archdiocese of Boston is slamming a “Catholic” college for hosting a Harris-Walz fundraiser, while his Chicagoan counterpart is taking the opposite approach to America’s Abortion Party. Ahead of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) this…
The term “Catholic” has, in the present age of identity politics and progressive activism, lost some of its meaning, but the name is still touted as if it is itself a blessing from the Vatican. A group calling itself “Catholics…
Pipe bombs, Molotov cocktails, and arson are just a few of the many ways people have attacked churches. Since 2020, at least 342 attacks, with some estimates indicating over 400, have occurred against Catholic churches in the U.S. According to…
In the sixth century, the monk St. Columba left the Emerald Isle and sailed to Iona to build a new monastery and spread the Christian faith. For centuries afterwards, Ireland held a reputation as a deeply and even fundamentally Catholic…
A new report is alleging that one of the Vatican’s top defenders of orthodox theology was dismissed from his post due to mismanagement of Church’s finances, but the truth of the matter may be more complicated. Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller…
On Thursday, while Americans were celebrating our proud heritage of liberty and courage, the Vatican was concluding an ecclesial trial. Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the former papal nuncio to the United States, was accused of the delict of schism, tried,…
There’s no such thing as being “too young” to make a difference. In 2006, Carlo Acutis died at the age of 15 from acute promyelocytic leukemia. On Monday, he was approved for sainthood. The Work of Carlo Acutis Nicknamed “God’s…
