Calvary Cemetery in Dayton, Ohio, is a quiet, lovely, sacred place. Maple and oak trees stretch hundreds of feet into the air, and in November they rain their multicolored canopy onto the quiet graves of the dead. When you speak,…
The president of a self-described Catholic university is endorsing controversial drag shows on campus, despite students’ protests. Ahead of a drag show “symposium” scheduled for November 3rd at the University of Notre Dame, the school’s president Fr. John Jenkins is…
As Rabbie Burns reminded us, in his barbaric Scotch brogue, “The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men/Gang aft agley,/An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,/For promis’d joy!” If he had been a wiser man — and been born…
The once popular conservative radio host, Michael Savage, coined the phrase, “Liberalism is a mental disorder,” and wrote a 2005 book with that title. In the two decades since, Savage has been proven not only right but prescient. Ironically, the…
On Wednesday, more than 300 delegates from around the world will meet at the Vatican for what has become known as the Synod on Synodality — a meeting intended to continue the “three-year process of listening and dialogue” that began…
A major Vatican criminal proceeding is likely coming to a close, with defendants accused of corruption, extortion, blackmail, and treating the Vatican Bank like an ATM. At present, ten men are on trial before a Vatican criminal tribunal — including…
WASHINGTON — There is still more gibberish emitting from the Pope as he travels to and from the Far East. Now he is safely home in the Vatican, so only his close advisers will hear the claptrap that comes from…
Poland already boasts notable saints from the 20th century — Pope John Paul II, Faustina Kowalska, and Maximilian Kolbe, to name a few. Today, those great saints look on as the Ulma family is beatified in their hometown of Markowa,…
It is perhaps no great secret that the Catholic Church in the U.S. is facing something of an identity crisis. On the one hand, there are those who interpret Pope Francis’s leadership as a license to reshape the entire Catholic…
