Columnist: Michael Pakaluk
A Blindspot in Catholic Social Teaching: Generational Theft
Search the Catechism, the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, or indeed the entire Vatican website—search as much as you like—and you will find no teaching on what ...
If I Were Created a Cardinal…
If I were created a Cardinal and dispensed from the canonical requirement to be ordained a deacon or priest – my vocation is as a layperson – this is how ...
Lay Responsibilities and the Order of Charity
I take it that charity has to be freely given by the person who shows charity. If I steal someone’s credit card and purchase all kinds of goods with it ...
The Office of the Bishop is to Admonish Sinners
“This little work is the key to Gregory’s life,” says the Catholic Encyclopedia, meaning St. Pope Gregory the Great’s Book of Pastoral Care. “For what he preached, he practiced. ...
Multiple Texts Showing Cardinal Fernández’s ‘Idée Fixe’
In Fernández’s strange speculations, one sees a bizarre separation of common sense from a supposed mystical reality. Wikipedia says of a “whiskey priest” that he is “a stock character who ...
On Needing God – and the Teaching on Hell
The doctrine of hellfire attests to the fact that we can make ourselves such as not to need God. “But every creature needs God to continue to exist,” you say ...