Publication: The American Conservative
The NICE Synod
It will not surprise you that I find the ongoing Synod on Synodality undertaken by the Catholic Church at Vatican instigation to be amusing at best. Why? In part because ...
Cardinal Screwtape
This essay in the Jesuit magazine America, by Cardinal Robert McElroy of San Diego (above, being made a cardinal by Pope Francis), brings the dubious insights of Critical Theory to ...
Catholic Crisis: This Time, It’s Different
Sometimes it is wise to keep calm and carry on in the face of church problems. For Rome, this is not one of those moments. That above is Pope Francis ...
Cardinal Pell, White Martyr
It was a deep shock last night to get the news late that Cardinal George Pell had died. Only three weeks ago I was at his apartment, having lunch with ...
Catholics Respond To TLM Post
I had so many responses from Catholic readers and others on the Pope Francis/Latin Mass post that I decided to do a separate post. Let's get started. A Latin massgoing ...
Filicide Of The Catholic Faith
Late last week, I made a trip to Krakow, and then to Czestochowa, to visit the Jasna Gora shrine, the spiritual heart of Polish Catholicism. Though I am no longer ...
Robert McElroy’s Rise to the College of Cardinals
John Quinn, the late archbishop of San Francisco, was one of the most liberal prelates in the post-Vatican II Church in America. A few years before he died, he told ...
Homeland Security Warns Bishops To Be On Guard
An informed and highly trusted source tells me: Homeland Security has officially notified the bishops there are credible threats to the safety of Catholic churches, clergy, and bishops if the ...
Stumbling Down the Synodal Path
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) will convene again as part of yet another synod (a fancy Catholic way of saying “meeting”). This ironically seems to be the ...
Presiding Over A Collapsing Church
The diocese of Cincinnati has announced a plan to restructure the diocese and eventually eliminate 70% of the parishes. The “New Evangelization” is a Vatican call from some years back ...
The Grindr Priests Of Newark
‘Nighty-Night Baby’ Tobin appears to have a problem in his Archdiocese. The latest from the independent Catholic news site The Pillar: The Archdiocese of Newark says it will investigate the ...
Custodians Of The Abyss
Catholic priest friend sent this to me: I’m going to guess that other people have already sent this to you, but the General Secretary of the USCCB resigned today in ...
The Cardinal Marx Charade
Pope Francis recently rejected a preening offer of resignation by German Cardinal Reinhard Marx. It is hard to say which gesture was phonier: the offer or the refusal. Intended as ...
How The Lavender Mafia Works
The Catholic journalist Edward Pentin has an important interview with Father John Lavers, a Catholic priest who has some powerful insights into the McCarrick Report. First, some background: He led ...
Seminarian: ‘I Want To Get Away’
I’m trying to describe my experience in the seminary, dejection at the state of the Church, and my latest decision to try to leave. There is something good in these ...
Statue of Jesus Desecrated at Baton Rouge Catholic Cathedral
A statue outside St. Joseph Catholic Cathedral in Baton Rouge, Louisiana was found desecrated this past Thursday morning. Vandals had broken the fingers off the statue and marked it with ...
Uncle Ted’s Social Network
Anybody who knows much of anything about the US Catholic Church and the abuse scandal knows that former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick was at the center of much of it. But ...
And Then They Came For The Catholics
With the exception of a few courageous bishops, most Catholic leaders have remained silent about the mob’s destruction of the statues of the Father of California’s Catholic missions, St. Junipero ...
SSPX Abuse Scandal Hits Mainstream Media
About a month ago, I posted about a blockbuster Church Militant story on sexual abuse scandal within the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X, in particular in the town of ...
The Vatican’s Pachamama Christmas
A distressed Catholic reader sends in this clip of the Vatican’s Christmas pop concert, a fundraiser of some sort, which featured a moment on stage in which an indigenous young ...
Cardinal Sodano Deserves A Millstone
Cardinal Angelo Sodano has resigned, at 92, as Dean of the College of Cardinals. Excerpt: Pope Francis used the occasion to express “my gratitude, including in the name of the ...
