Columnist: Rod Dreher

Does the Vatican see the face of Christ in the old women raped, even to death, by asylum seekers? Does it see the face of Christ in the girls sex-trafficked ...

They all knew. All the sons of bitches knew. And they did not care. So, Ted McCarrick is dead, and the gristled pervert does not deserve to rest in peace ...

In 1571, Pope Pius V created the Holy League, organizing the Catholic states of Europe in a coalition to end Ottoman control of the Eastern Mediterranean, and to protect Europe ...

This is not the end of the world, but it is the end of a world, in which unaccountable left-wing activists and their captured institutions advance radical programs with no ...

Reposted from Gavin Ashenden on X - Rod Dreher on the universal dimension of the disaster that takes place when a bad man is elected pope. I find that this ...

A reader sent me the photo above of a priest viewing, in the company of children, the relic of St. Jude the Apostle, which has been touring the country with ...

I begin today with awful news about Father Carlos Martins, the Catholic exorcist I’ve praised recently in this place. This broke over the weekend: A St. Jude relic traversing the ...

It will not surprise you that I find the ongoing Synod on Synodality undertaken by the Catholic Church at Vatican instigation to be amusing at best. Why? In part because ...

This essay in the Jesuit magazine America, by Cardinal Robert McElroy of San Diego (above, being made a cardinal by Pope Francis), brings the dubious insights of Critical Theory to ...

Sometimes it is wise to keep calm and carry on in the face of church problems. For Rome, this is not one of those moments. That above is Pope Francis ...

It was a deep shock last night to get the news late that Cardinal George Pell had died. Only three weeks ago I was at his apartment, having lunch with ...

I had so many responses from Catholic readers and others on the Pope Francis/Latin Mass post that I decided to do a separate post. Let's get started. A Latin massgoing ...

Late last week, I made a trip to Krakow, and then to Czestochowa, to visit the Jasna Gora shrine, the spiritual heart of Polish Catholicism. Though I am no longer ...

An informed and highly trusted source tells me: Homeland Security has officially notified the bishops there are credible threats to the safety of Catholic churches, clergy, and bishops if the ...

The diocese of Cincinnati has announced a plan to restructure the diocese and eventually eliminate 70% of the parishes. The “New Evangelization” is a Vatican call from some years back ...

‘Nighty-Night Baby’ Tobin appears to have a problem in his Archdiocese. The latest from the independent Catholic news site The Pillar: The Archdiocese of Newark says it will investigate the ...

Catholic priest friend sent this to me: I’m going to guess that other people have already sent this to you, but the General Secretary of the USCCB resigned today in ...

The Catholic journalist Edward Pentin has an important interview with Father John Lavers, a Catholic priest who has some powerful insights into the McCarrick Report. First, some background: He led ...

I’m trying to describe my experience in the seminary, dejection at the state of the Church, and my latest decision to try to leave. There is something good in these ...

A statue outside St. Joseph Catholic Cathedral in Baton Rouge, Louisiana was found desecrated this past Thursday morning.  Vandals had broken the fingers off the statue and marked it with ...

Anybody who knows much of anything about the US Catholic Church and the abuse scandal knows that former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick was at the center of much of it. But ...