Columnist: Michael Warren Davis

The Conformist Cardinals
Do not conform yourselves to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your mind... Romans 12:2 To be fair, Cardinal McElroy didn’t call for the Church to ordain ...

Taking the Widow’s Mite
Over at The Lamp, an anonymous writer—a layman in the Archdiocese of Washington—has written movingly about the possibility that Cardinal Wilton Gregory will abolish the Extraordinary Form in his diocese ...

The Deep Church: From the Borgias to Becciu
The CINO (cardinal in name only) belongs to an old and powerful clique of corrupt, self-serving Italians in the Roman curia. For centuries, they’ve formed a kind of Deep Church ...

Marxists Love Fratelli Tutti
Bishop Heinz-Josef Algermissen recently published a letter claiming that, during an October 7 meeting with Pope Francis, the Holy Father expressed “dramatic concern” with the state of the German Church ...

Do All Dems Go to Heaven?
Fr. James Altman speaks with Michael Warren Davis, editor or Crisis Magazine. Tagged as Father James Altman ...

Father Moloney vs. the Cult of Woke
Progressivism is not an ideology, but a political religion. Black Lives Matter is not a political movement: it’s a secular cult. I’m sure Crisis readers need no convincing on either ...

LISTEN: Shepherds or Sheepdogs?
The Vatican’s Secretariat of State is embroiled in scandal after one of their dubious $100 million real estate deals (in London!) went south. Did Cardinal Parolin know about his underlings’ ...

God or the Mob?
Should Catholics be excommunicated for holding views on race which are found to be insufficiently woke? The Jesuits seem to think so. In a June 1 editorial, America magazine urged ...

Cardinal Pell Is Innocent – Those Who Persecute Him Are Not
The boiling frog never marks that first millisecond, when the water in his pot becomes just a half-degree warmer. And so, Catholics living in America circa 2019 couldn’t possibly appreciate the ...

Playing Politics With Sex Abuse
Leading US bishops and senior figures in the Vatican are – quite disgracefully – playing politics with sex abuse. That is the first thing American Catholics need to understand about ...