Columnist: Michael Hichborn
Erotic Mystic Retreat Director At Heretical Priest Conference
The Association of United States Catholic Priests (AUSCP) has invited Father Ronald Rolheiser, OMI, to serve as the retreat master at its 2025 Assembly in San Antonio. That choice is ...
New Mexico Benedictine Abbott Accused of Homosexual Assault, Medical Abuse, Financial Corruption
Benedictine monks in New Mexico have accused their abbot of homosexual predation, sexual harassment, sexual grooming, medical neglect, elder abuse, retribution, abuse of power, and financial malfeasance. Several monks of ...
Catholic Relief Services: A History of Lies and Cover-Ups
As the USCCB prepares to pass the basket for Catholic Relief Services this weekend, Catholics have a right to know what they’re being asked to support: nearly two decades of ...
WATCH: Exposing the Hymnal Industrial Complex
Since the 1960s, the ancient chants and beautiful hymns that once elevated the Mass have been discarded in favor of a more “modern” sound. Organs and choirs have given way ...
WATCH: Hichborn and Stine Discuss the Interminable Synod
LifeSiteNews has reported that Pope Francis has announced a three-year implementation phase of the Synod on Synodality to be carried out by local churches and concluded with an ecclesial assembly ...
In Defense of Fr. Ripperger Against Mike Lewis’ Defamatory Screed
Mike Lewis, founder of the website Where Peter Is, has taken a swipe at exorcist Fr. Chad Ripperger. But “taking a swipe” is actually too soft a term when one ...
Mosher and Hichborn: USAID Has Always Been About Population Control
The National Catholic Register recently published an editorial, “Separate the Wheat From the Chaff in US Foreign Aid,” attempting to balance support for President Donald Trump’s cuts to “rank ideological ...
WATCH: Catholic Relief Services and the Trump USAID Cuts
Appearing on US Grace Force, Michael Hichborn of the Lepanto Institute helps expose the complicity of Catholic Relief Services in the evil agenda of USAID ...
A Question of Charity
Much has been said lately of the massive amounts of government money going to Catholic Charities, and some are beginning to awaken to the grotesque salaries taken by their CEOs.” ...
US Bishops Are Lying When They Claim Abortion Is Their ‘Preeminent Priority’
The average budget for the US bishops’ pro-life office is just around $2 million, compared to $134 million in 2023 for ‘migration and refugee services.’ Even worse, the USCCB is ...
Did U.S. Bishops Just Blow $28 Million Targeting the Wrong People?
Launching a multi-year, multi-million dollar campaign largely based upon a dubious survey does not instill confidence among the laity. In August 2019, Pew Research published a study suggesting just one-third ...
The Shift from Timeless Beauty to Trendy Mascots: A Modernist Infiltration of the Church’s Artistic Tradition
The Vatican’s decision to adopt cartoonish, trivialized symbols, such as the blue-haired ‘Luce’ mascot, is a symptom of a disturbing shift within the Church. The current trend moving the Church ...
TAKE ACTION: Contact Your Bishop Regarding The Real Presence Survey
Here's a letter the Lepanto Institute sent to its subscribers today. We want to encourage our followers to consider taking the same step recommended by the Lepanto Institute. Earlier this ...
Political Donations Made by “Professional Catholics” Heavily Favor Democrats
In 2016, the Lepanto Institute conducted a review of political contributions from employees of Catholic Relief Services, finding that 98% of those employees contributed to pro-abortion candidates and causes. A ...
Defending the Indefensible: Bishops Approved Grants to Wicked Organizations
Ever since the continued existence of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) was called into question this past April when its executive director, Ralph McCloud, unexpectedly stepped down, bishops, ...
WATCH: Why Have Catholics Lost Faith in the Real Presence?
Michael Hichborn of the Lepanto Institute and Timothy Flanders of One Peter Five discuss a new survey launched by the Real Presence Coalition asking people to identify the reasons why ...
St. Louis Archdiocese Encourages Clergy to Attend Meeting of Pro-LGBT, Women’s Ordination Priests
The Archdiocese of St. Louis is formally promoting and encouraging its own priests to attend the upcoming Annual Assembly of the Association of US Catholic Priest’s (AUSCP). Identified as a ...
Covenant House Promotes Transgenderism, Dispenses Contraception
Covenant House was established in 1972 by Fr. Bruce Ritter as a Catholic shelter for homeless and runaway youth. In 1984, Fr. Ritter was hailed by President Ronald Regan as ...
Lay Leaders Beg US Bishops to Cancel Funding of Marxist, Pro-Abortion, Pro-LGBT Groups
Prominent Catholics from across the United States have signed an open-letter addressed to the bishops of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), asking them to permanently close down ...
US Bishops’ Quid Pro Quo With Funding Agencies
Since 2016, the Lepanto Institute has written about the Quid Pro Quo lobbying efforts of both the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and Catholic Relief Services (CRS) on ...
WATCH: Hichborn and Westen Discuss Current Corruption in Catholic Church
Hichborn and Westen discuss the corruption amongst many bishops and the need for prayer by the laity ...
