Columnist: John Zmirak

Pope Leo Smothers Pro-Lifers in the ‘Seamless Garment’
Well, the mystery man has taken off his disguise. Like traumatized children who hope that their mama’s new boyfriend won’t beat them as much as the last one, Catholics greeted ...

America’s Catholic Bishops Fan Flames of Violence Against ICE
Life comes at you fast. Last week I wrote a piece at The Stream asking U.S. Catholic bishops and the priests at their command to treat illegal immigrants like the ...

Will Pastors Call on Illegal Immigrants to Repent?
Three weeks ago I reported on the following: The Archbishop of Miami, Thomas Wenski, joined by two dozen bikers from the Knights of Columbus — a Catholic fraternal group committed ...

Pharisaical Advocates of Open Borders Already Have Their Reward
The story and its carefully staged photos are blasting everywhere in Catholic media: The Archbishop of Miami, Thomas Wenski, joined by two dozen bikers from the Knights of Columbus — ...

The American Pope Who Opposes Border Control But Favors Gun Control
History has been made, no doubt about it. The Roman Catholic Church on Thursday chose its first American pope, Leo XIV — Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, a Chicago native and ...

What Do You Say When Your Father Dies? What About If He Was a Traitor? Pope Francis, RIP
Pope Francis is dead. We Catholics are taught to see the pope as our spiritual father on Earth (“Il Papa“), the Vicar of Christ, with a religious authority analogous to ...

The Vatican’s Embrace of Sex Change Mutilation Suggests We’re at a Maccabees Moment
This apostasy by the Vatican’s highest authority carries many grave implications. You might not have read the Book of Maccabees. (Catholics and Orthodox regard it as canonical while Protestants and ...

LISTEN: Exposing the Deep Catholic State
Lawyer and children’s advocate Elizabeth Yore joins Stream Senior Editor John Zmirak to discuss the Deep State’s involvement in the Catholic Church, as well as the Catholic laity’s growing discontentment ...

Why Do Progressive Christians Like Pope Francis Want to Burn the West Down?
Global media are abuzz with the Vatican’s full-on frontal assault on the United States of America. Faithful Catholics are staggered by what they call Pope Francis’s “unprecedented” intrusion into American ...

President Trump Keeps Flooding the Zone with Sane Policies That Expose Sick, Squalid Secrets
No, it’s not manna from Heaven or multiplied loaves and fishes, because Caesar isn’t Jesus. We don’t look to Donald Trump, Elon Musk, or any mere human being to save ...

Elon Musk Tweets to Trump: No More Federal ‘Bribes’ for Churches That Traffic Immigrants
Thanks to Elon Musk, we’ve just seen a historic moment of real importance to our country — and one which is in the genuine best interests of Christians, especially my ...

How Donald Trump Could Save My Church From The Lavender Bishops
Perhaps only a Church stripped of assets, denuded of wealth, and exposed as powerless would return to its mission of preaching the Gospel rather than pimping for globalism, abortion-tainted vaccines, ...

Trump’s DOJ Must BANKRUPT the Deep Church Which is Enabling Illegal Immigration
The USCCB is an immigration Ponzi scheme and a gay employment agency with a Catholic problem. I have a proposal for President-Elect Donald Trump’s new attorney general and Department of ...

What Will Be Left for Catholics After Francis?
I’ve spent most of my life defending and advancing the claims of the Catholic Church. In fact, I’ve written nine books doing just that. And my commitment goes back much ...

‘Progressive’ Christianity Is a Suicide Cult
Don’t drink the Kool-Aid, even if your pope or pastor is pouring it. Day in and day out, both in the press and in the pulpit, leftists try to use ...

Anarcho-Tyranny Comes to the Vatican
Imagine you live in some hypothetical state in the segregated, Jim Crow South, circa 1930. Your state has laws against lots of minor offenses such as littering, loitering, and causing ...

Is Richard Dawkins More Catholic Than the Pope?
Over the weekend, The Stream was privileged to reprint a brilliant series recently by intelligent design scientist William Dembski on the evolution of Richard Dawkins. But the famous atheist didn’t ...

Mission Accomplished: The Rainbow Seamless Garment Is Suffocating the Church, as Intended
Over at The Christian Post, you’ll find a story that at first might depress you. On second thought, it ought to cheer you up. And then on deeper reflection, it ...

Dignitas Infinita: Vatican’s New Word Salad Contains Broken Glass
Dignitas Infinita Claims Deportation Is Just as Evil as Slavery There’s a new document from the Vatican, called Dignitas Infinita. It claims that by virtue of being created in God’s ...

Francis and Caiaphas: A Tale of Two High Priests
One thing we know about Pope Francis: He has an unhealthy obsession with Judas. In his private apartments, a crude painting hangs which depicts the risen Jesus ministering to Judas’s ...

Cartels Use Kids, Biden Naps and Bishops Cash the Checks
NOTE: The amount of $122,574,428 illustrated in image above is the actual amount the USCCB received in federal grants and contracts for "Migration and Refugee Services" in 2022 (see USCCB ...