Columnist: Maureen Mullarkey
Raking In Hundreds Of Millions For Trafficking Kids Destroys U.S. Catholic Bishops’ Credibility On Immigration
Earlier this week, Anna Gallagher, executive director of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc. (CLINIC) crooned: “As we enter the Advent season, we remember that the Holy Family themselves were ...
Francis, Illegal Migration, And Charity Minus Justice
America’s Catholics are facing a crisis of authority. The social and economic realities of mass migration contradict the Vatican’s facile theologizing on open borders. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops ...
Vatican Thinks ‘Charity’ Means Championing Leftist Causes And Taking Money To Flout Immigration Laws
America’s Catholics are facing a crisis of authority. The social and economic realities of mass migration contradict the Vatican’s facile theologizing on open borders. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops ...
USCCB Distorts Church Teachings To Cajole Catholics Into Voting For Open Borders
There is nothing Christian about facilitating the erosion of national identity. This past February, President Biden referred to the tsunami of current migrants as “newcomers.” A euphemism that normalizes illegal ...
Pope Francis’ Feel-Good Gospel Fans The Flame Of Radical Gender Ideology
Pope Francis’ coy two-step on sexual mores hangs over Catholic culture like the sword of Damocles. Papal ambiguity weakens the Catholic Radio Association’s current effort to resist newly mandated reporting ...
Cecilia’s Funeral & Theology of the Beaten Dog
We wake up every day to signs of a civilization in free fall. Cratering with it is the moral authority of the Roman Church under the captaincy of Pope Francis ...
Catholic Bishops Gave Biden A Pass In 2020 And Now Christians Are Paying For It
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) meets this week to elect a new president. Relations with Washington top the agenda. Stalking those relations is the reality that the USCCB ...
Pope Francis Ushers In Radical Environmentalism Under The Guise Of ‘Catholic Teaching’
Pope Francis’ militant environmentalism comes couched in the devotional language of his 2015 encyclical “Laudato Sí.” What he calls “the Gospel of Creation” is a politicized assault on fossil fuels, ...
The Amazon Synod and the Church as Laughingstock
The synod is done. But the mutant thing lives on in its final document, “Amazonia: New Ways for the Church and for a Holistic Ecology.” Prudence and discretion, rationality itself, ...
The Amazon Synod Is Exploitation Of The Poor Masquerading As The Opposite
The Amazon Synod has convened. The game is on. It is a cheap confidence game, one that only a debased Vatican could summon. The comedy of hierarchs endorsing middlebrow eco-religion ...
Theodore McCarrick: From Cardinal to Commoner
Theodore McCarrick was demoted from cardinal to archbishop some months ago. Under pressure of media attention, the Vatican has upped the ante on penalties against him. Now he is simply ...
McCarrick’s Seminarians
Ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick interests me less than the seminarians who kept mum for so many years. The saga of this man is far larger than the story of one libertine ...
Pedophilia Isn’t The Main Problem With Catholic Priests, Homosexuality Is
The editorial board of the New York Times declared it had identified the source of “The Catholic Church’s Unholy Stain.” It names pedophilia and asks: “How have so many pedophiles been allowed ...