Columnist: Michael Brendan Dougherty
The Ghost of Pope Francis Haunts Charlotte
In a move that is going to be heavily scrutinized as it develops, Bishop Michael Martin of the Catholic diocese of Charlotte has decided to finalize the implementation of Pope ...
The Pope’s Reign and Ruin
Pope Francis closed out his summer by praising the Mongolian and Russian empires for their tolerance and humanity, before criticizing American Catholics for their backwardness and narrowness. No, you read ...
More Restrictions Coming on the Old Mass
The Catholic internet is buzzing with rumors. Pope Francis is said to be unhappy with the less-than-strenuous implementation of his desired restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass. And so he ...
Pope Francis Is Tearing the Catholic Church Apart
In the summer of 2001, I drove up to Poughkeepsie, N.Y., to find what we called “the traditional Latin Mass,” the form of Roman Catholic worship that stretched back centuries ...
The McCarrick Whitewash
The Vatican has finally released the long-awaited and long-delayed McCarrick Report. The document purports to be a thorough examination of how it was that a man who was widely known ...
The Case Against Pope Francis
He has elevated immoral men in order to change the Catholic faith Just over five years ago, the Argentine cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio came out onto the loggia of St ...
Leading Churchmen are Denying the Undeniable
A few cardinals have roused themselves to respond to the month-old press disclosures that Cardinal Theodore McCarrick is a pederast, whereas before he was merely well known as a serial ...
There Is No ‘Biological Solution’ to the Catholic Church’s Spiritual Crisis
What we were talking about had a name in Catholic circles. It was called “the biological solution.” Roughly speaking, it meant that priests attached to the reforming visions and the ...