Publication: John Eighteen Thirty Seven

In my November 23, 2025, article entitled, “Pope Leo is following Francis’ Abuse Cover-Up Playbook,” I wrote, “One reason to suspect a cover-up and an abuse of ecclesiastical power is ...

A heterosexual celibate man in his 40s who is discerning a vocation to the priesthood contacted me recently about a particular seminary, inquiring if it might be infested with homosexual ...

Former Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating resigned his position as Chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) National Review Board in 2003, owing to his frustration that the bishops ...

A search on the internet will provide a long list of notable converts to Catholicism. Many of these converts shared how they found the teachings of the Catholic Church to ...

Vos Estis Lux Mundi: A ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Card It was during the “Summer of Shame” in 2018 that: 1) The media and Church leaders finally took notice ...

Catholics tend to project their heterosexuality and their fidelity onto their clergy, just like I did as a seminarian and young priest. It was for this reason that I had ...

In 1990, at the age of 41, I was dying of lymphoma without realizing it. My doctor misdiagnosed my problem and had been treating me with antibiotics for a respiratory ...

The appointment of Bishop James Checchio of Metuchen as the Coadjutor Archbishop of New Orleans is consistent with the recent promotion of other bishops, like Cardinal Robert McElroy and Archbishop ...

Nothing will change until lay Catholics hold leaders accountable. Had the populations of Dresden and other Axis cities decided not to go to work in their factories that were making ...

Over fifty years ago, when the majority of bishops and priests were heterosexual, the main reason priests left was to marry. The teaching that the Holy Spirit would come down ...

This is the first of three articles addressing why men enter the seminary to study for the priesthood and be ordained; why some leave; and why others stay. In some ...

Many articles have appeared recently about Sacred Heart Seminary faculty members who were fired by Detroit Archbishop Edward Weisenburger. Aware of Weisenburger’s record of covering up sex abuse which helps ...

The clerical sexual abuse crisis in the Cathollic Church has demonstrated how clever predators are in covering up their predatory behavior just like homosexual clergy are good at covering up ...

When Michael Rose wrote Goodbye, Good Men in 2002, he claimed that the American College of Louvain (ACL) Belgium harbored a homosexual subculture among the faculty and students. Rose reported ...

The events portrayed in The Godfather movies with Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, and Robert De Niro are no different than what has been happening under recent Popes, along with Bishops ...

Just as people are talking about how the media and the White House staff for years hid President Joe Biden’s cognitive problems from the public, so too are we now ...

As mainstream and Catholic media celebrate the historic weight of a U.S. citizen being elected the first American Pope, not one outlet has questioned what Leo XIV’s papacy will mean ...

Since the election of Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost as Pope Leo XIV, I have been flooded with calls and emails asking for my take on the first American Pope. Insofar ...

For many years gay men and lesbians were perceived as security risks and excluded from military service because they engaged in homosexual behavior and were thought to be vulnerable to ...

Several articles have been published and more will surely appear prior to the upcoming papal conclave. Having lived and studied with five of the ten American cardinal candidates, I have ...

Francis claimed "Those who do not repent, and therefore cannot be forgiven, disappear.” When I began reading gaslighting news reports in the legacy and Catholic media about the passing of ...