A Monday night in January when the temperature is 19 degrees isn’t the best time to realize everything you believe about the Catholic Church is a minority opinion. But there I was, driving to my parish church in the wake…
Pope Francis scrambled the last remaining eggs of Twitter feminists last week when he condemned those picking pet ownership over parenthood as “selfish” and worsening the West’s “demographic winter.” As domestic birth rates decline and the inheritance of upright values…
Paris, 1954 It is the evening of the eighth of December, and Henry de Montherlant’s newest play, Port-Royal, is premiering at the Comédie-Française. The stage is set, and 800 or so patrons are now filing into the Salle Luxembourg, passing…
A Vatican office flip-flopped this weekend and decided to promote an LGBTQ organization, New Ways Ministry, on the “resources” page of its website. Last week, the office, the General Secretariat for the Synod of Bishops, removed the organization from its…
Editor’s Note: This article has been updated with a response from Francis DeBernardo. Francis DeBernardo, the executive director of the LGBTQ advocacy group New Ways Ministry, claimed Wednesday that the organization received two friendly letters from Pope Francis in May…
Cardinal Roger Mahony, the retired archbishop of Los Angeles, is notorious for his role in the Church’s abuse scandal. In 2013, he was “removed from all public duties by his successor, Archbishop José H. Gomez, as the church complied with…
Pain and love run perpendicular. Somewhere along the way they inevitably meet. We see it in the Cross. I trust you’ll understand if I don’t feel like satire today. It happened last Thursday in Madrid. At the end of the…
Julia Meloni’s new book The St. Gallen Mafia provides a valuable service to readers curious about the origins of the current pontificate. Drawing on a wide range of sources, she fills in the picture of the St. Gallen Mafia, a…
American Catholic priests ordained after 2010 are more likely to be theologically conservative and to affirm Church teaching on controversial moral issues than priests ordained in prior decades, a survey published this week found. The survey showed that newly ordained…
