A Canadian-based writer named Daniel Panneton has written an article in the Atlantic that claims that “radical traditional” Catholics have “weapon[ized]” the rosary. Panneton’s article is titled “How Extremist Gun Culture Is Trying to Co-Opt the Rosary,” and its subtitle…
In the name of “nondiscrimination,” President Joe Biden advanced last week a proposed final regulation that would force religious doctors and hospitals to perform abortions and transgender surgeries. Xavier Becerra, Biden’s Health and Human Services secretary, spent many months working…
In 2020, according to exit polls, Joe Biden won the Catholic vote by five percentage points over Donald Trump. But Biden “has lost significant ground with Catholics since his election,” reports Susan Crabtree of RealClearPolitics. Citing “findings in the latest…
For thousands of years, the upper echelon of the Vatican has been occupied by men. Pope Francis is reversing that custom, empowered by a new Vatican constitution he approved that allows for the appointment of non-ordained people to high-level Vatican…
Pope Francis, who belongs to the Jesuit order, periodically meets with Jesuit magazine editors to discuss the direction of the Church. These interviews are invariably newsworthy. In 2013, he made headlines after telling Jesuit editors that the “dogmatic and moral…
After San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone recently barred Speaker Nancy Pelosi from Communion, she appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe to defend her defiant brand of Catholicism. It was an abject performance. She didn’t address the substance of Cordileone’s ban but…
Whoopi Goldberg, who has said that she got six or seven abortions by the age of 25, recently pronounced on The View that San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone has no right to bar Nancy Pelosi from receiving Holy Communion. “This is not your…
Chinese Cardinal Joseph Zen was arrested by Hong Kong’s national security police for violating the new national security law imposed on Hong Kong by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in June 2022 that outlaws “terrorism, collusion with foreign forces, subversion…
Burger King has apologized, and it wasn’t for its burgers. That’s the news. An advertising campaign in Spain during Easter caused a flood of complaints calling for a boycott for offending Catholics. On the billboard, the words of the consecration,…
