High levels of homosexual orientation among American Catholic priests have been an open secret for decades. Citing data by sociologist Paul Sullins, University of Texas sociologist Mark Regnerus noted in a 2021 Public Discourse article that, historically, homosexual orientation in…
“A religion that doesn’t interfere with the secular order will soon discover that the secular order will not refrain from interfering with it,” the venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen predicted over a half a century ago. That dark prophecy has,…
Most people don’t follow the Catholic news cycle regularly, and there’s a good reason: In recent years, it’s been a web of entangled finances, bishop appointments, and meetings that concluded by affirming the need for more meetings while accomplishing little…
Besides devoting a whole month to celebrating one of the seven deadly sins (for the poorly uneducated, that would be “pride”), annual Pride Months are intended to normalize and even promote an ever-expanding list of sexual orientations (pan-, grey, or…
List of Characters Man: a 30-something year-old man attending a gay pride parade. Volunteer: a 30-something year-old male assigned by parade organizers to hand out fliers and paraphernalia along the parade route. The scene: A man watches a pride parade…
When the rejections began rolling in, there was a universal theme. All the editors of the big publishing houses had taken the time to read my new memoir, and they all emailed my veteran literary agent to say how great…
Well, we’re a couple of days into the annual festival of malignant narcissism that is Pride Month — a 30-day bacchanal of corporate virtue-signaling and cranky anti-normie bigotry the majority of the population is growing weary of and is beginning…
In 1996, the prominent Protestant theologian Richard Hays published A Moral Vision of the New Testament, which asserted that the Bible teaches that sexual relations should occur exclusively within a marriage between a man and a woman. The book’s scholarship…
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…