Two years ago this month, a memo began circulating among the College of Cardinals excoriating Pope Francis’s pontificate and thoroughly analyzing its many failures. Entitled “The Vatican Today,” the detailed evaluation was signed simply by “Demos,” a Greek word meaning…
To live in America in the third decade of the 21st century is to experience something similar to that which many, particularly those on the right, warned about not long after the turn of the millennium. Following the jihadist attacks…
Blue eyes. Blond hair. Somewhere between 5’9 and 6’3. Does that sound like the ideal baby boy? Or maybe you wanted a girl with brown hair and green eyes who would grow to be 5’3. Until very recently, that wasn’t…
When Bishop Karl-Heinz Wiesemann asked priests, deacons, and lay pastoral workers in the German Diocese of Speyer to offer blessings for same-sex unions and remarried couples early last month, his letter made international news — and it should have. That’s…
Good news on the religious-liberty front from Finland: it is not a hate crime to quote the Bible’s views on homosexuality and marriage. As outrageous as it sounds, the top prosecutor of that Nordic country wanted to make it so,…
The year 2018 was a stark and, in many ways, defining one for the Catholic Church. Still slowly recovering from the ongoing revelations of the devastating clerical child sex abuse scandal and its widespread coverup by bishops, another major revelation…
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 man has a penis and a woman has a vagina. They are the two kinds of person that exist in human nature. This is the most striking external distinguishing feature, but not the only one. So Hollywood millionaires might…
A new law under consideration in California states that gay men are entitled to have access to a surrogate. A revision to the California law SB-729 would allow the government to force insurance agencies to cover surrogacy for same-sex couples….
