Publication: American Spectator
The Last Stand Against the Culture of Death
The Last Stand: Christ or Chaos: The War for the West is an uncompromising book and film documentary written and narrated by Seth Gruber that is less entertainment and more ...
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 ...
Feminism: The ‘Shadow Church’ Replacing Christianity
A Catholic scholar warns that feminist ideology is a religion destroying women for generations to come. “Feminism has created a Shadow Church,” author Carrie Gress stated at the Catholic Information ...
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 ...
A Call for Moral Responsibility Amid Suffering
just finished teaching Viktor Frankl’s masterpiece, Man’s Search for Meaning. A day later, Charlie Kirk was assassinated on a college campus, much like the one that I teach at. Charlie ...
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 ...
The ‘Catholic’ University of Scranton Hires Pro-Abortion Former Senator
It would be laughable if it wasn’t so sad. My alma mater (Class of 1981), the Jesuit-run University of Scranton, announced that it has hired former Pennsylvania Democratic Senator Robert ...
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 Obligations of Home: JD Vance and the Ordo Amoris
Let us not replace Ordo Amoris with abstract notions of “humanity.” Imagine waking up from a coma, or returning from your rest-cure after a nasty bout with Influenza B, and ...
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 ...
JD Vance KNOWS Catholic Charities Has Lost Its Soul
Faithful Catholics have been saddened by the allegations — most recently suggested by Vice President JD Vance — that their Church has been complicit in creating the humanitarian crisis at ...
