Columnist: Michael Hichborn

Common Good Montana received its first-ever CCHD grant in the 2025–2026 fiscal year for $35,000. One problem with this organization is centered around its very identity as a 501 (c3) ...

A couple of weeks ago, leftist theologian Rich Raho posted on 𝕏 celebrating the advancement of Dorothy Day’s cause for canonization, linking to an article by Michael Fox at Catholics ...

Pope Leo XIV has been connected to communist affiliated organizations. Michael Hichborn of the Lepanto Institute joins John-Henry Westen to examine the evidence and ask the question that faithful Catholics ...

I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt not have strange gods before me.” Exodus ...

The Lepanto Institute’s report examines the fifth World Meeting of Popular Movements (WMPM), held October 21–24, 2025, at Spin Time Labs in Rome under the auspices of the Vatican’s Dicastery ...

Last week, Elisa Martinez of the New Mexico Alliance for Life discovered that the Catholic Charities of Central New Mexico (CCASFNM) promoted a Planned Parenthood-sponsored event called the “Lavender Prom” ...

This article will provide a thorough timeline regarding our discovery of CRS’ direct participation in the spread of contraception in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).  It is a ...

It was announced yesterday that the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc (CLINIC) filed an amicus curiae with the Supreme Court regarding Trump’s Executive Order ...

Thomas More University is the Catholic liberal arts university of the Diocese of Covington, Kentucky. As such, it operates under diocesan authority, including oversight of its Catholic identity, liturgical life, ...

In 2021, we published a report on several Tennessee organizations receiving funding from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD). The various organizations were involved in some degree in the ...

Over the weekend, The Lepanto Institute received a tip that the Joseph and Mary Home, a project of the Sisters of Charity Health System, hired an “abortion rights” activist to ...

Significant financial support by the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) is going to organizations deeply connected to socialist and Marxist movements. This report details how, under the banner of ...

Michael Hichborn of the Lepanto Institute shares his personal experiences in interacting with Archbishop Paul Coakley, the newly elected president of the USCCB ...

The organization called Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha (CTUL) has been receiving grants from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) since 2010. In total, CTUL has received 11 ...

Michael Hichborn of the Lepanto Institute is joined by Catholic film producer and documentarian Oscar Delgado to discuss his new movie, TRIUMPH OVER EVIL: Battle of the Exorcists. Who is ...

In a new report, the Lepanto Institute traces the rise of violence perpetrated by sexual deviants to the promotion of LGBT ideologies from Catholic bishops and priest members of the ...

The heretical Association of US Catholic Priests (AUSCP) announced earlier this year that the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) approached the Association, asking it to host a virtual ...

Detroit Archbishop Edward Weisenburger has a history of concealing clerical sexual abuse, according to revelations of a Church-commissioned investigation that examined the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, where Weisenburger served 16 ...

Based on McCormick’s experience as Joe Biden’s White House Press Office stenographer, this eyewitness account details the globalist plots perpetrated by Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Pope Francis, the CIA, President Barack ...

Following the swift crackdown on the Traditional Latin Mass and the firing of three faithful theology professors, Archbishop Edward Weisenburger appointed a new ombudsman who was once indicated as a ...

Archbishop John Wester, the local ordinary for the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, NM, reinstated the faculties of a priest who spent ten years in San Francisco as a registered “domestic ...