Columnist: Peter Kwasniewski
How to Properly Use Righteous Anger About the Amazon Synod
Anger always has to be channeled into thoughtful and focused efforts; otherwise, it disperses itself wastefully and harmfully. I have spoken a little bit here about what laity can do, ...
Dealing Appropriately With The Abuse Crisis Means Rediscovering The Purpose Of The Priesthood
In the midst of what feels like an interminable and ineradicable abuse crisis, some Catholics will be tempted to pin the blame on the traditional conception of the priesthood, which ...
No Place to Hide
For a long time, the pope and the bishops were seen as “men apart,” occupying a lofty sphere that no layman could dare enter, with a special standing that blocked ...
How Catholics Can Live Their Faith More Fully in the Current Crisis
Recently a university graduate asked me what he could do to live out his Catholic faith more fully during the current crisis in the Church, and how he could better share this ...
How US Bishops Should Have Responded to Vatican Hijacking Their Meeting
It was with the proverbial whimper that the recent USCCB meeting in Baltimore went out. The hoped-for and indeed expected bang was thwarted by forces without and within. The Vatican ...
Letter from the Battlefront: What a Faithful Young Priest Goes Through
Dear Dr. Kwasniewski, I remember meeting you at – – – . I am currently a diocesan priest. I had to leave the place I was before due to rampant ...
‘LGBT’ Appears for First Time in Vatican Document – Catholics Should Grieve
As reported here by our Rome correspondent, the working document for the Youth Synod underway at the Vatican contains the first use, in an official Vatican document, of the acronym “LGBT.” Why ...
The Church Never Fails Because Christ Never Fails – But Churchmen Are Another Story
It is when things are looking bleakest, humanly speaking, that the act of faith in God’s revelation is most valuable and saving. When the Church is sailing along in splendor ...
Why Viganó’s Testimony Will Go Down as the ‘Clarifying Moment’ of Francis’ Papacy
The month of August opened with a bang—and closed with a nuclear detonation. On August 2nd the world learned of Pope Francis’s disdain for the witness of Scripture and the ordinary ...
