Columnist: Darrick Taylor
The SSPX is Not the Problem
Nearly 10 years ago, my spiritual director suggested to me that I should teach a Church history class at my local parish. I asked my pastor, who thought it was ...
Pope Leo and the Death Penalty Charade
Popes since John Paul II have created the impression in the minds of many Catholics—and many outside the Catholic Church—that the Church believes the death penalty to be intrinsically immoral ...
Revolt of the Janitors
This is not a gentlemanly dispute that can be resolved by gestures of charity and humility. The Church is divided between people who have long ceased to believe in anything ...
The Church Is Political—Inside and Out
A reporter recently asked U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a practicing Catholic, how he reconciled the teachings of the Catholic Church with the Trump administration’s aggressive stance against illegal ...
A System Is What It Does
A few years ago, I did a deep dive on my Church History podcast on the Council of Trent, the great reform council that responded to the Protestant Reformation in ...
Why the Attempt to Ban the Latin Mass Is Failing
There has been much chatter on the interwebs lately about possible further restrictions being imposed upon the celebration of the classical Roman Rite, or the Traditional Latin Mass, as it ...
The Pope, the Bishops, and the Church’s Crisis of Trust
In any area of human endeavor, the testimony of others and certain types of authority are necessary to producing agreement about what is true and false, even in the realm ...
The Synod of the Red Death
When I was a child, I was a huge fan of the Beatles. I listened to their songs over and over again and bought several cassette tapes (Google it, young ...
Examining the Deep Roots of the Abuse Crisis
The ongoing sexual abuse crisis in the Church has left many good Catholics shaken, and like many I have tried to understand how this has happened. Obviously, homosexuality in the ...