Publication: Catholic World Report
Indianapolis Becomes Seventh U.S. Diocese to Grant Mass Dispensation to Migrants Fearing Deportation
Dioceses issuing dispensation decrees cover a combined Catholic population of about 3.5 million people. The archbishop of Indianapolis has granted a dispensation from Mass for parishioners who fear deportation, making ...
In Defense of Moral Agency and the Necessary Pursuit of Holiness
The biblical narrative of redemption is rendered pointless and ultimately incomprehensible in a culture that has been bleached of a real sense of the importance of moral agency—the ability to ...
U.S. Bishops Missed an Opportunity with Changes to the “Charter”
The internet buzzed after the U.S. bishops consecrated the nation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Orlando on Thursday. June 11. Catholic news outlets and bloggers mostly raved enthusiastically, ...
The Scandalous Synod Report: A Betrayal of Trust
The scope of this new synodal “paradigm” is breathtaking; under its erroneous approach, any sexual sin (and most other sins) can be reframed as “good.” A Synod Study Group Report (“Report”) published in early ...
Is The Church Dying Or Reviving?
What is going on in the Church in America? Is She singing a swan song, or is She rising again from the ashes like the legendary phoenix? In the spirit ...
Chicago Priest Resigns After Archdiocese Discovers Misuse of Parish Funds
A priest in Chicago has resigned after the archdiocese found that he misused parish funds for “personal expenses,” Cardinal Blase Cupich told parishioners this month. Cupich told St. John Henry ...
Bishop Seitz Encouraging ICE Officers To Question Their Orders
Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, Texas, said law enforcement agents must “evaluate everything in the light of Christ” while discerning actions in regard to immigration enforcement. Seitz issued the ...
Ratzinger v. Kasper: Why The Debate Matters Even More Today
What is at stake is the very constitution of the Church as a divinely instituted reality. December 31, 2025, marked the third anniversary of the death of Pope Benedict XVI ...
The Urgent Need to Recognize and Reject Religious Relativism
Within various forms of religious relativism, there is a not-so-hidden soft totalitarianism that is swiftly moving into “harder” versions with devastating real-life consequences for anyone who dares to openly resist ...
Is There A White Flag Over New Orleans?
On January 8, 1815, General Andrew Jackson led his American troops to an unlikely victory over the British in the famous Battle of New Orleans. Two weeks later, General Jackson ...
The Red-Pilled Church
Religious submission of mind and will also applies to the hierarchy, and part of the submission must be the full acceptance of obedience to the moral and spiritual demands of ...
Surveying Synodality
It’s sometimes said that synodality has never been properly defined, perhaps because modern ecclesiastical texts are not written by Schoolmen. A suitable definition might run, ‘Synodality is a spirit of ...
The Rule of Law (or the Lack Thereof) in the Francis Pontificate
The problem for the Church’s life, and for the application of justice, comes when the Pope appears to convey disregard or indifference for the uniform application of the law—even laws ...
Synodality: The Opportunity To Replicate The Germany Disaster Worldwide
From Catholic World Report: For the first time, fewer than 20 million Catholics live in Germany, according to the 2024 Church statistics published by the German Bishops’ Conference (DBK) on ...
Synodality For Me, But Not For D.C.: On The McElroy Appointment
This pontificate talks big about synodality and collaboration and listening but then does whatever it wants in largely old-fashioned, non-synodal, autocratic ways. One of the primary problems with the implementation ...
A Pillar Of Salt For Our Age
Although Father Marko Rupnik’s According to the Spirit sheds little light on Pope Francis’s spiritual theology, it is both valuable and concerning as the written testament of a controversial priest whose ...
Victims Feel ‘Betrayed’ As Vatican Investigation of Rupnik Hits One Year With No Answers
One year after the Vatican announced it would open a canonical case on Father Marko Rupnik — an artist and former Jesuit accused of spiritual, psychological, and sexual abuse — ...
The Liberal and Flawed Roots of the Tiresome Synodal Grievances
One of the things I have learned in my 65 years of being a Catholic is that the meaning of the term “Church reform” in the post-Vatican II era is ...
The Transparent Silliness of the Lack of Synodal Transparency
Former secretary for public affairs of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops exposes the absurdity of the gag order imposed on the synod participants. Now we run into a ...
The Sacramental Nature of Authority and the Limits of Synodality
St. Ignatius of Loyola’s first rule for thinking with the Church is: “We must put aside all judgement of our own, and keep the mind every ready and prompt to ...
Rome “Synodals” While The World Burns
In March 2013, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio gave a short speech to the assembled Cardinals before the conclave wherein he described his vision for a Church that was far less “self-referential” ...
