In a recent interview with Jason Whitlock, social commentator Pearl Davis admitted that she’s recently begun reconsidering her childhood Catholic faith because she’s concluded that the Church may elevate Mary, the Mother of God, too much. On today’s episode of The…
If you’d like to see a movie about a saint utterly gutted of religious meaning this Lenten season, piqued by a perverse curiosity of what such a spectacle might look like, then go see Cabrini. It’s quite the marvel: a…
Germany’s Catholic bishops are officially launching their first commission for “queer” pastoral care. Auxiliary Bishop Ludger Schepers of the troubled Essen diocese, the commission’s inaugural chief, is already urging a change in the Church’s teachings on homosexuality. “In the coming…
The number of attacks against Catholic and Protestant churches has skyrocketed in recent years, and the violence shows no sign of slowing down. The Family Research Council (FRC) has identified 915 “acts of hostility” against Christian churches since 2018, with…
There’s a fatal temptation with Lent. Few people struggle to come up with a list of things to “give up” — and frequently those lists are quite long with items like sweets, carbs, TV shows, genres of music, and so…
Two years ago this month, a memo began circulating among the College of Cardinals excoriating Pope Francis’s pontificate and thoroughly analyzing its many failures. Entitled “The Vatican Today,” the detailed evaluation was signed simply by “Demos,” a Greek word meaning…
If you’ve missed the Catholic Church of the 1970s, no need to worry. Last weekend, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles hosted its annual Religious Education (RE) Congress — one of the largest gatherings of Catholics in the U.S. — at…
Germany’s Catholic bishops have abandoned their plans to form a forbidden Synodal Council to replace the authority of bishops with a democratic body of clergy and laity. On the eve of their annual plenary assembly, the German bishops were given…
Germany’s Catholic bishops may be preparing to defy the Vatican, despite Pope Francis’s efforts to rein in the heterodox prelates. The German Bishops’ Conference will meet tomorrow for its annual Spring plenary assembly, where the bishops may move forward with…
