Columnist: Eric Sammons

WATCH: The Politicization of Ad Orientem
Last week I shared a video on social media that went viral (with more than 59,000 views at last count). What was this video? Was it a cat doing a ...

Power vs. Authority in the Church
The recent Vatican directive that parishes can’t advertise their scheduled traditional Latin Masses was met with widespread mockery on social media. For anyone who has worked in a parish, the ...

The Vatican’s Homosexual Flirtation
The Vatican just ran afoul of the LGBTQ mafia. The Synod of Bishops removed a link on its website to New Ways Ministry, a pro-homosexual group whose work was condemned ...

WATCH: US Bishops Completely Clueless
The US Bishops document on Eucharist Coherence is one great big nothing burger. Eric Sammons, editor of Crisis Magazine, breaks down last week's USCCB meeting in Baltimore, and why it ...

Will Your Bishop Support COVID Vaccine Religious Exemptions?
While the bishops of Colorado have confirmed they will support Catholics who object to the vaccine, New York's Cardinal Timothy Dolan has instructed his priests NOT to do so. Steve, ...

Standing-Up to the LGBT Anti-Bullying Bullies
“Bullies” are the modern-day boogeymen. Lurking around every corner ready to pounce on their prey, they live to inflict psychological harm on their victims. They demand blind obedience to their ...

The Present Crisis
More than 38 years ago, Ralph McInerny and Michael Novak founded a new journal called Catholicism in Crisis, later renamed Crisis Magazine. In its opening editorial, entitled “The Present Crisis,” ...

Covid-19 and the Limits of Obedience
The response to Covid-19 has resulted in a flood of restrictions on our behavior and activities, including within the Church. Initially, the bishops in the United States suspended the public ...

When Bishops Lose Their Authority
While on the scaffold awaiting his execution, St. Thomas More famously declared, “I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.” Throughout the controversy surrounding King Henry’s divorce and remarriage, ...