The United Methodist Church cannot seem to stay out of the news these days — and, given the nature of the news it’s not staying out of, that is not a good thing. It is facing a dramatic internal split,…
The Southern Baptist Convention released its annual membership report last week, and the news isn’t good. The U.S.’s largest Protestant denomination lost just short of half a million members within a single year, falling from 13.68 million members in 2021…
The “ministerial exception” is under attack again. And this time on two fronts. The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 10th District ruled in June 2022 that a religion teacher at a Colorado Christian high school — a “chaplain”…
While most of mainline Protestantism — whether Lutheran, Episcopal, Presbyterian, or United Church of Christ — has declared victory in the gay-marriage wars and moved on to bigger, juicier heresies, like installing transgender bishops and assigning new, preferred pronouns to…
People from across the country have gathered at Asbury University to join students who have been praying, singing, and worshiping the Lord for hundreds of hours straight. The small Christian college is located in Wilmore, Kentucky, which is just outside…
Para descubrir al tonto no hay mejor reactivo que la palabra: medieval. Inmediatamente ve rojo. To discover the fool there is no better reagent than the word “medieval.” He immediately sees red. – Nicolás Gómez Dávila The church of St….
The man who was likely the most important intellectual of the last century has died. And it is also likely that it will take us a long time to realize it. Pope Benedict XVI died just as he lived, because…
Cardinal Gerhard Müller, the former head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, has called the Synod on Synodality a potential “hostile takeover of the Church of Jesus Christ.” Pope Francis announced last week that he is adding…
San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy was elevated to cardinal last weekend, a significant snub to Jose Gomez, the archbishop of Los Angeles, a much larger see than San Diego whose head typically receives a red hat. As if Gomez hadn’t…
Former Milwaukee Archbishop Rembert Weakland, one of the most influential liberal American prelates of the 20th century, died last Monday. He resigned in 2002 after it came out that he had paid hush money to a male Marquette University graduate…