This week, Luther and Aubrey have thoughts about Harvard embarrassing itself in the wake of its president, Claudine Gay, being exposed more daily as a serial plagiarizer. The two also consider the Pope’s guidance on blessings and how those relate to…
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…
In a new declaration published by the Vatican, the Catholic Church is reaffirming its opposition to one of its ancient enemies. The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a document last week reiterating, “On the doctrinal level, it…
Most major “modernization” efforts in the Roman Catholic Church tend to be something of a wash: not modern enough to please the progressive liberals in places like Germany and Chicago; offensive in kind to the traditionalists in Texas and Poland;…
As the Synod on Synodality in Rome races towards a debate on blessing homosexuality, a Polish Jesuit is calling on Pope Francis to offer clarity, not confusion. In a recent essay, Fr. Dariusz Kowalczyk addressed the prevalence of what he…
Wartime pontiff Pope Pius XII has long been accused of failing to act in the face of Nazi atrocities, giving rise to the myth of “Hitler’s Pope.” But Vatican officials are working hard to debunk that myth and to share…
This has been a light year for major elections in the West, but Poland currently offers more than its share of political theater. The country will hold parliamentary elections on Oct. 15. At stake is the direction of a country…
A major Vatican criminal proceeding is likely coming to a close, with defendants accused of corruption, extortion, blackmail, and treating the Vatican Bank like an ATM. At present, ten men are on trial before a Vatican criminal tribunal — including…
A staunchly conservative Catholic bishop is retiring, leaving behind a legacy of fighting for orthodoxy. Lichtenstein’s archbishop Wolfgang Haas has tendered his resignation leading the nationwide archdiocese of Vaduz, having reached the typical retirement age of 75. Haas’s time leading…
