Columnist: George Neumayr
Pope Francis Echoes Biden
The anticipated political alliance between Pope Francis and Joe Biden is already beginning to form. The pope recently tweeted out that society needs to “build back better,” which is one ...
Wilton Gregory, Biden’s Kind of Bishop
Wilton Gregory, the archbishop of Washington, D.C., is basking in the praise of the mainstream media. Reports of his elevation to cardinal have generated such gushing headlines as: “Archbishop Gregory ...
McCarrick’s ‘Nephews’ Still Run the Church
Anybody who bothers to slog through the Vatican’s mountainous report on the McCarrick scandal will not emerge from the experience enlightened. The report’s revelations, to the extent they exist, are ...
The Anti-Catholic Presidency to Come if the U.S. Bishops Get Their Way
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB): “We congratulate Mr. Biden and acknowledge that he joins the late President John F. Kennedy as the second United States president to profess ...
Bishops for Biden
Should Biden win the presidency, he will be the “second practicing Catholic” to hold that office, the media informs us without irony. Neither John F. Kennedy, with his prodigious womanizing, ...
Francis and Biden, Ideological Brothers
In courting Catholic voters, Joe Biden never fails to mention his friendliness with Pope Francis. He boasts that he knows him “as well as anybody” and that they share the ...
Biden’s Catholic Con Job Continues
This last week saw Joe Biden simultaneously advertising his “Catholic social justice” and touting his denial of it to unborn children. The former claim came at the virtual Al Smith ...
Democrats First – Catholics Last
Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, is considered one of the most powerful prelates in the United States. His power derives from his status as a member of the ...
The Bishops Bail Out Biden
Were the Republicans to run a Catholic for president who supported, say, segregation, the bishops wouldn’t hesitate to condemn that figure and warn their congregations not to vote for him ...
The Malthusian Pope
Most popes urge austerity as a means of saving one’s soul. Pope Francis urges it for a different reason: to save the planet. In keeping with that temporal focus, he ...
The Vatican Goes to Bat for Biden
In 2016, the Vatican was pulling for Hillary Clinton. Just days before the presidential election, Pope Francis renewed his criticism of politicians who speak about erecting “walls.” This led Slate ...
Why Didn’t Kamala Harris Prosecute Abusive Priests?
Perhaps the deepest and most troubling mystery of Kamala Harris’s tenure as a prosecutor centers on the disturbing issue of sexual abuse of children by priests,” writes Peter Schweizer in ...
The Church Collaborates in Its Own Destruction
It aligns itself with an anti-religious movement. One might think the Catholic Church would stand against the orgy of iconoclasm that we are witnessing across the country — toppled statues, ...
The Deep Church Against Viganò
They find him guilty of being Catholic. In Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò’s recent letter to Donald Trump, he writes, “just as there is a deep state, there is also a ...
The Clergy Follows the Mob
The riots have exposed the depth of America’s civilizational crisis. Yet where are the supposed religious leaders of that civilization to decry it? They are difficult to find. To the ...
Stooges for Secularism
Wherein the hierarchy defers to the state. Donald Trump wants to open up churches more than some church leaders do. No sooner had he proposed that churches be deemed “essential” ...
Pope Francis Turns To Syncretism During Time Of Crisis
The Bible is replete with stories of people who suffer chastisements for placing strange Gods before the true God. But for Pope Francis, who this last week participated in a ...
The Two Popes Problem
When Pope Francis grants an interview, he makes news by subverting Church teaching. When Pope Benedict XVI gives one, he makes news by upholding it. Therein lies the two popes ...
The Holy Week Musings of Pope Francis
Fretting over the fate of Judas wouldn’t seem a high priority for a pope. But it is a subject that gnaws at Pope Francis. In 2014, the Religion News Service ...
Closing Churches, Opening Jails
Thousands of prisoners have been released from jails since the coronavirus crisis hit. “In Los Angeles County, Sheriff Alex Villanueva has embarked on what appears to be the largest U.S ...
Canceling Catholicism Until Further Notice
What happened to the “field hospital” of Pope Francis? Early on in his papacy, Pope Francis likened the Church to a field hospital. But the analogy hasn’t held up amidst ...
