Columnist: S.A. McCarthy
Catholic Bishops and the LGBT Agenda: The Church Is Not a Social Club
Over the past several years, the LGBT agenda has been featured front and center in America’s culture wars, although Donald Trump’s second presidency has seen the issue nearly fade from ...
America’s Bishops ‘Turn A Blind Eye’ to Abuse of American Generosity
They’re at it again. Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Thursday to support President Donald Trump in terminating temporary protected status (TPS) for a host of foreign nationals, the U.S ...
Open Borders Bishops Have Blood On Their Hands
Progressive activists have spent the past 16 months or so whining about President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda. “Mass deportations are inhumane,” they complain. (It’s worth noting that the same ...
Why Did the Pope Appoint an Illegal Alien as an American Bishop?
After more than a decade of chaos, confusion, and pseudo-progressive politics under the pontificate of the late Pope Francis, Pope Leo XIV is restoring some sense of stability to the ...
The Bishops’ Misplaced Priorities
Shepherds ought to protect their flocks from wolves. Instead, we find them demanding that the wolves share our pastures. Last week, The Atlantic’s Francis X. Rocca penned a damning indictment ...
The Church’s Misguided Mercy
Surprise, surprise: the U.S. Catholic Bishops Conference (USCCB) is at it again, watering down the Catholic Church’s teachings to support its own (highly profitable) immigration agenda. Following Kristi Noem’s ouster ...
Immigration Advocacy of US Bishops Undermines Law and Order
I worry at times, writing this column, that I may sound like a broken record, harping on immigration issues and the Catholic Church’s teachings on the subject ad nauseum. But ...
Are America’s Bishops Cowardly — or Just Greedy?
America’s Catholic hierarchy preaches open borders but whispers about abortion. In the late fifth century, St. Patrick, the Apostle of Ireland, wrote a letter to the army of the British ...
When a Bishop Forbids Kneeling
Catholic priests in the Diocese of Charlotte, in North Carolina, are asking the Vatican to possibly intervene as their bishop continues to strip priests and the faithful of traditional Catholic ...
Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Is Evidence of Spiritual Warfare
The recent rash of violence is a symptom of the spiritual disease plaguing our nation. Spiritual warfare is real, undeniably real, and the Western world is currently in the throes ...
Catholics Are Being Killed, and US Bishops Form Another Anti-Racism Committee
America’s Catholic bishops have made some serious missteps in the past — from mishandling and covering up sexual abuse and homosexual predation in seminaries and rectories to distorting the Catholic ...
USCCB Misrepresents Church’s Immigration Teachings — Again
The Bishops would have the US incentivize illegal immigration, rewarding lawbreakers with public health benefits. America’s Catholic bishops are at it again: undermining the nation’s sovereignty and security for the ...
Polish Bishops Boldly Speak-Out Against Illegal Mass Migration
U.S. bishops could learn something from their Polish brethren. Poland’s new progressive political leadership is complaining to the Vatican that the nation’s Catholic bishops are speaking too forcefully against mass ...
Should Illegal Aliens Be Dispensed From Sunday Mass Obligations?
Here's an excerpt from the column: American Catholics may and do face many forms of discrimination, but none fear for their lives when attending Mass. American Catholics shuffling into their ...
The US Bishops’ Hypocrisy on Human Trafficking
Platitudes and press statements will not be enough to confront the depraved evils of human trafficking. America’s Catholic bishops are decrying the evils of human trafficking, while ignoring their own ...
America’s Bishops Should Heed Church Teaching on National Sovereignty
As Trump takes office, they should recall that the Church has long supported preserving the sovereignty and culture of nations. resident-elect Donald J. Trump is to be inaugurated Monday and ...
US Bishops Denounce Trump’s Immigration Plans
The Catholic Church has clear teachings on immigration, but US bishops stand to lose lots of money from mass deportations. As President-elect Donald Trump is just days away from returning ...
Disgracefully! Cardinal Cupich Fronts for Abortion
The incoming archbishop of the notorious archdiocese of Boston is slamming a “Catholic” college for hosting a Harris-Walz fundraiser, while his Chicagoan counterpart is taking the opposite approach to America’s ...
Another Cardinal Characterizes Biden as a “Cafeteria Catholic”
Despite this wanton degeneracy, Biden still claims to be a Catholic — in fact, his lackeys in the media world often tout him as a “devout Catholic.” But a former ...
Why in the World is Bishop Barron Complimenting Bill Maher?
Bishop Robert Barron has, over the past decade or so, become one of the best-known high-profile figures in American Catholic circles. His book and, later, television series Catholicism have elucidated ...
The Holy Eucharist and the Hint of an Explanation
The English author and convert to Catholicism Graham Greene once penned a short story entitled “The Hint of an Explanation,” which is well worth the read, not least of all ...
