Columnist: Chris Manion
Cardinal Cupich Proclaims the Sacrament of Immigration
On October 3, 2026, Cardinal Blase Cupich spoke at an immigration rally held at Old Saint Patrick’s Church in downtown Chicago. “I am delighted to be with you to celebrate ...
Brave Bishops Issue Battle Cry to Virginians
These days, it takes a brave bishop to defend Catholic doctrine on the family, marriage, and children. Fortunately, Virginia’s two bishops, Michael Burbidge of Arlington and Barry Knestout of Richmond, ...
Fauci and the Bishops
The recent revelations regarding the contents of the diaries, emails, and cell phone records of Dr. Anthony Fauci have produced a curious sidebar that involves the Catholic Church, and specifically ...
Dear Shepherds: Can You Hear Me Now?
What’s Stopping Them? Audiology or Ideology? “You aren’t listening to me!” Your standard reply: “Yes I am, honey, I just didn’t hear you!” In noisy restaurants; at home, when you’re ...
Memo to Tom Homan: Our Bishops Are Not “The Church”
To: Tom Homan, Director, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Dear Mr. Homan: On November 12, a reporter asked you about allegations by some Catholic bishops’ that your “massive deportations” were “inhumane.” ...
The Next America: Getting Closer
How times have changed: Cardinal Gibbons demanded assimilation; Archbishop Gomez rejects it. This week, Nicholas DiMarzio, retired bishop of Brooklyn, suggested in OSV News that the U.S. legalize “as many ...
Tucho Fernandez Strikes Again
“Every human person possesses an infinite dignity, inalienably grounded in his or her very being, which prevails in and beyond every circumstance, state, or situation the person may ever encounter” ...
Cardinal Dolan Claims Illegal Immigration is Good for the Church
Regardless of any motions that the bishops might adopt every four years affirming the “preeminent issue of abortion,” immigration continues to consume most of their energy. One factor is money ...
Bishops Turn Blind Eye Toward TransCatholic Joe Biden
Last June, Joe Biden boasted to the AFL-CIO that his administration was “changing people’s lives.” He didn’t add that American Catholic lives were “Target Number One” — we’ve had to ...
Inaction of the Bishops Has Allowed ‘Catholics’ to Lead the Pro-Abortion Movement for Decades
Fifty years ago, in response to the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade, a group of radicals founded “Catholics for a Free Choice” in Washington, D.C. It was a ...
“What The Hell Is Going On In The Catholic Church?”
In the fall of 2004, the local news here in Northern Virginia, reported that the pastor of St. John the Apostle in Leesburg had been arrested for the possession of ...
Do Most Bishops Hate America?
Sixty years ago Bill Buckley wrote God and Man at Yale, describing how the professors and administration at his alma mater had betrayed so profoundly the Christian foundations of the ...
“Catholics For Biden” Cheer Miami Archbishop
A recent exchange between two prominent figures in Florida has exposed a seamy underside of the pro-illegal immigration efforts of the U.S. Catholic hierarchy and their connections with Joe Biden ...
Pelosi and the Popes . . . Two Meetings, Two Versions
Rome watchers have remarked that Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Rome this month was reminiscent of an earlier occasion, when she met with Pope Benedict XVI in February 2009. There were ...
Post Revisted: Powerful Perverts – Cardinal Theodore McCarrick and Jeffrey Epstein
Great story by Christopher Manion from last August painting the parallels between two sexual perverts. There are several parallels, some of them ominous, between two recent scandals that have dominated ...
“Racism” Replaces Abortion As “Preeminent Issue” For U.S. Bishops
America’s bishops have been struggling to regain their balance ever since the lockdowns began. Financial ruin faced our schools, parishes, even entire dioceses. Catholics everywhere were starving for the sacraments ...
All The President’s Critics
On June 1, President Donald Trump and Mrs. Trump visited the Knights of Columbus Shrine of St. John Paul II in Washington. There they honored the revered champion of religious ...
Are Lawyers And Lobbyists “Forgotten Suffering Populations?” – CRS Thinks So
On March 17, in the midst of the Wuhan Coronavirus crisis, the USCCB’s Executive Committee took time out to issue a statement defending Catholic Relief Services. “In the name of ...
USCCB Staffers Reverse Bishops’ Decision On Abortion
USCCB "Deep State" Employees Defy Their Bosses At the USCCB’s annual meeting last November, America’s bishops considered updating their document entitled Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizens. The text, published every ...
The Judas Complex
With US bishops, actions speak louder than words Boston College philosopher Peter Kreeft has observed that “Judas was the first Catholic Bishop to accept a government grant.” One wonders, did ...
Bishops Let Bygones Be Bygones
“It would be a good Lenten practice to try to stop gossiping about others, criticizing them, and instead look at our own faults, and then remain mute,” Pope Francis said ...
