Columnist: Regis Martin
On Sanctifying Sodomy
The Final Report of Study Group 9 of the Synod on Synodality is a jaw-drooping attack on Scripture and everything that the Church has ever taught concerning sodomy. Is sodomy ...
Don’t Rush the Silence: Rediscovering Stillness in Mass
In talking to a pious young priest the other day, one who strives for punctilio in keeping all the rubrics in place while saying Mass, I asked about the length ...
Catholic Culture: Rediscovering Our Roots
In a culture where every contour of the public life assists in communicating the message of Jesus Christ, the first citizen of the realm will be the Church, she who ...
Why We Go
For those of us who manage to get to Mass at least once a week, not infrequently arriving moments before the sound of the opening hymn, the distance between car ...
Regis Martin: Conservatives Clinging to Christ
Why does the pope think so poorly of us? Conservative Catholics, that is, whom he maligns on a regular basis, accusing us, as he did most recently in an interview ...
Regis Martin: My Advice? Step Down
Suppose you’d been asked by Cardinal Manuel Fernandez, Prefect for the Dicastery for the Doctrine of Faith, to assist him in putting together an official statement on the possibility of ...
Rearranging the Chairs at the Synod
There was a time, not so very long ago, when the raging controversy among Catholics was about how best to receive Holy Communion. Would greater reverence be shown when receiving ...
Ask Mary to Save Us From the Synod on Synodality
Being the soul of good cheer that I am, the very last thing I want to do is send out distress signals, particularly about a Church I dearly love but ...
Whither the Synod?
Of all the absurdly stupid things I’ve ever heard, this was far and away the nuttiest, most insanely silly of them all. And yet it was often and annoyingly said ...
Put an End to the Madness!
Unlike everyone else who witnessed the Holy Father taking a phone call in the middle of a General Audience in St. Peter’s Square the other day, I was not the ...
Dr. Regis Martin: An Open Letter To Our Bishops
Your Excellencies: It seems almost like yesterday that, among all the bishops scattered about the globe, it was everywhere understood that care of the soul was the principal function of ...
It’s Time to Clean Up the Mess
How bad must things get before we can all agree that the sky is actually falling and that Chicken Little was right all along? Forget the secular scene, where Biden-induced ...
Does the Church No Longer Defend the Deposit of Faith?
“Guard the noble deposit,” exhorts the Apostle Paul to Timothy, his young colleague and friend, in what was perhaps his final epistle. And why should he do that? Because, very ...