Columnist: Fr. John Perricone

Martyrs spilled their blood for Truth come down from Heaven. For the Synodalist, there is no truth, only transactional process. Who would die for that? For the Synodalist, truth is ...

Hammer and Sickle? Who under the age of 60 would even remember that barbaric symbol of Communism? Or the tens of millions it executed under its totalitarian death grip? Or ...

Sermon of Father John A. Perricone on the Second Sunday after Pentecost, with the External Solemnity of Corpus Christi preached on Sunday, June 7th, 2026 at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, ...

Sermon of Father John A. Perricone on the Sunday After Ascension preached on Sunday, May 17th, 2026 at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Hackensack, New Jersey. Father encourages Catholics to remain ...

T'is a pity when a word dies. It is conceived in the womb of a certain culture, and it gestates in that culture until its meaning is set as firmly ...

Those still giddy about Vatican II appear like a straggling line of octogenarian cheerleaders—irrelevant and embarrassing. Once upon a time, Hollywood used to produce movies. Real movies, that is. They ...

As to the greatest threat to the Church today there can be no doubt. It is synodality. Synodality represents the full maturity of the modernism condemned by Pope St. Pius ...

If you want to understand the strange currents running through American Catholicism today, you could do worse than to look inside the U.S. Capitol at 8:00 a.m. on a Monday ...

Sermon of Father John A. Perricone for the 23rd Sunday After Pentecost preached on Sunday, November 16th, 2025 at Our Lady of Sorrows Church, Jersey City, New Jersey. Father warns ...

Try as hard as you might to understand him, still Pope Leo leaves us befuddled. Even giving the benefit of the doubt to his recent statements, Catholics are still left ...

Synodality has as much to do with religion as astrology has to do with astronomy. It refuses to end. Synoding, that is. That clever term is George Weigel’s and captures ...

Sermon of Father John A. Perricone on the 7th Sunday After Pentecost given Sunday, July 27th, 2025 at Our Lady of Sorrows Church, Jersey City, New Jersey. Father urges Catholics ...

Clownishness reached new depths several months ago in the Philippines. Not the Bozo kind, the Catholic kind. Cardinal Antonio Tagle took to the stage, donning a chorus line outfit, microphone ...

The persecution of tradition is not a new story, but the latest—and probably final—attacks from the Woodstock-era Bishops have a fresh tyrannical twist. Any Catholic with a pulse recognizes that ...

Good Catholics were often confused during the Francis pontificate. Not even months into his new pontificate, Pope Francis declared, to a group of young people in Paraguay, “Go out and ...

The Catholic Church had been exercising the rigorous disciplines of Lent for 500 years before Muhammad arose from the sands of Arabia. Have these good prelates forgotten the fasts of ...

For all its good intentions, the grand project of Eucharistic Revival is barely limping to its finish line. Applause is in order, for at least it noticed a precipitous loss ...

Today's “new spirituality," often found within the Church, is an ugly caricature of the millennial truths of union with God set forth by the Church, her saints, and her Doctors ...

Lower the Vexilla Regis. Raise the white of flag of surrender. The Synodal Church has arrived. Where Christ once declared victory in the red blood of His Cross, the Synodalists ...

Assaults on the city of Rome, the See of Peter, have not been infrequent over the course of the millennia. Attila attempted. But he failed when he came into the ...

Recreational Catholicism? Let me explain. It is an attribution identifying the current stage of collapse in the Roman Church. Its coinage is meant to convey the tangled knot of the ...