Publication: American Spectator
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 ...
The Synod on Synodality: Petering Out Into Irrelevance?
You were probably unaware that there was anything of note going on at the Vatican this month. Even if you’re a diehard Catholic interested in the inner workings of Church ...
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 ...
The Bogeyman: The Leftists’ Hatred of the Catholic Church
A hallmark of irrational ideologies is the fear of a bogeyman: some inexplicable evil hiding just out of view. For leftism, the bogeyman is and always has been the Catholic ...
Pope Francis’ Decade-Long Reign Removes Church From Crucial Moral Debates
On March 13, 2013, I stood among the thousands gathered in Saint Peter’s Square who witnessed the moment when Jorge Bergoglio, the Jesuit cardinal archbishop of Buenos Aires, walked out ...
The Catholic Church and Illegal Immigration
Immigration has been a hot-button issue for years. But with Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s recent declaration that illegal immigration at America’s southern border constitutes an “invasion,” the button has gone ...
McCarrick’s Former Diocese, Now Lead By His Protégé, Challenges Child Abuse Victims Act
The Archdiocese of Washington is challenging the constitutionality of Maryland’s new Child Victims Act. The 2023 legislation took effect in October and lifts the statute of limitations for lawsuits alleging ...
Bishop Strickland and the Decay of Catholic Culture
The year 2018 was a stark and, in many ways, defining one for the Catholic Church. Still slowly recovering from the ongoing revelations of the devastating clerical child sex abuse ...
Notre Dame President Defends Drag Shows on ‘Catholic’ Campus
The president of a self-described Catholic university is endorsing controversial drag shows on campus, despite students’ protests. Ahead of a drag show “symposium” scheduled for November 3rd at the University ...
The Synodal Spirit: Dissent Against Doctrine
The fruits of the “synodal spirit” infecting the Catholic Church are revealing themselves: dissent and division. In a letter dated late last month, Berlin’s archbishop Heiner Koch gave priests of ...
Pope Watch: Buckle Up for the End Times
Keep your eyes on Pope Francis the next few days. You may have noticed two dominant stories on the pope this week. One concerns his visit to Mongolia, arriving on ...
New Cracks in the Rock of Peter
Maybe more Church leaders should heed the old slogan, “What would Jesus do?” Last week, a major Catholic college, the University of San Diego, banned conservative influencer Matt Walsh from ...
Woman Featured in Viral WYD Photo Speaks-Out
The most recent World Youth Day in Lisbon, Portugal, wrapped up a week ago. Although Pope Francis has touted the event as the best-organized World Youth Day to date, it ...
Cardinal-Elect Aguiar: ‘We Don’t Want to Convert the Young People to Christ’
Pope Francis recently appointed Bishop Americo Aguiar of Lisbon, Portugal to the College of Cardinals. Vatican watchers noted that Francis's incardinating an auxiliary bishop like Aguilar instead of his superior ...
Portland Archbishop Reclaims Catholic Schools
Catholic bishop is reclaiming Catholic schools in the face of leftist revolt. Two Portland, Oregon, Catholic school principals have resigned after Archbishop Alexander Sample issued guidelines on gender and sex ...
Archbishop John Wester Calls Catholic LGBTQ Voices ‘Prophetic’
Archbishop John C. Wester of the Sante Fe diocese called the voices of LGBTQ Catholics “prophetic” at Outreach 2023, an LGBTQ Catholic ministry conference hosted by America Magazine. The conference ...
Don’t Just Blame the Dodgers: Blame the Collapse of Catholic Fidelity
As the debate continues to rage over Los Angeles Dodgers’ honoring of the “good works” performed by the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” — a group that has spent the last ...
