Modernism
WATCH: Vatican Bishop Imagines Abolishing Religion & God
Raymond Arroyo, Fr. Gerald Murray, and Robert Royal examine major developments shaping the Church, from Pope Leo’s decision to expand bishops’ authority over autonomous monasteries to ongoing debates over synodality, ...
Understanding the Technique of Revolution
This is a long essay to explain something of the revolutionary political technique of the 20th century, showing how it has mobilised desire without restraint within us all to destroy ...
The Vatican’s Invisible College: How Boring Academic Journals Quietly Run the Catholic Church
The Magisterium has an academic upstream. You can read it and predict the future. Statecraft requires a paper trail. If you want to know what the Pentagon will do next ...
One Year of Leo XIV: 365 Days at the Conciliar Circus
When Cardinal Prevost emerged on May 8, 2025 as Leo XIV, many Catholics expected either a quiet administrator or a modest corrective to the turbulence of the Francis years. Some ...
German Parish Using “Star Wars” To Attract Young People To The Liturgy?
In Germany, the Archdiocese of Bamberg defended a Star Wars “church service,” complete with Darth Vader, stormtroopers, a Jedi knight, a lightsaber duel, Kyrie, readings, Psalm 27, Hallelujah, and the ...
Transalpine Redemptorists Say The Not-So-Quiet Part Out VERY Loud
For nearly two decades, the Transalpine Redemptorists of Papa Stronsay were presented as the model of “traditionalism in full communion.” Founded in the orbit of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, regularized under ...
Why Is This 77-Year-Old Arch-Modernist Cardinal Still In-Charge In Chicago?
Cardinal DiNardo, of Galveston-Houston, was born in 1949. He retired and was replaced by his coadjutor, named by Francis, in 2025. Cardinal Dolan, of New York, was born in 1950 ...
Fr. Charles Murr: SSPX And The Church In Crisis
In this video, Robert Moynihan and Fr. Charles Murr discuss the growing tensions surrounding the SSPX, the question of episcopal consecrations, and what they signal about the broader crisis in ...
The Current Covert Demise of the Heresy of Modernism
By Raymond B. Marcin* [Thesis Statement: The thesis of this essay is that our Catholic Church has been backing away from its 1907 condemnation of Modernism as a Heresy ever since ...
Has The Vatican Declared War On Christianity?
Something extraordinary has happened, and most Christians missed it because it was wrapped in the language of love. Over the span of eleven days, from Easter Sunday through an eleven-day ...
One Year Without Francis: A Review of a Pontificate That Fractured the Church
On April 21, 2025, Easter Monday, Jorge Mario Bergoglio died in Santa Marta. A year has passed and the mourning is no longer news: what remains is the balance. Bergoglio ...
Leo Denies Loaves and Fishes Miracle For the Second Time
We already saw this pattern in my June 23, 2025 piece, Bread Without Doctrine: Leo XIV’s Corpus Christi and the Vanishing Reality of the Eucharist, where I reported that Leo ...
WATCH: What The 1960’s Did To The Church And Why The Tide Is Finally Turning
Fr. John A. Perricone entered seminary in 1968 and watched from the inside as the Catholic Church underwent its most catastrophic crisis in modern history: heresy taught openly in classrooms, ...
Holy Week in the Synodal Church: Politicizing the Way of the Cross
Leo XIV’s Good Friday Via Crucis was entrusted to Father Francesco Patton, and Vatican News openly framed the meditations as an effort to bring faith, hope, and charity into “the ...
Cardinal Sarah Denounces Church’s Drift: “It Is Not An NGO, It Has Forgotten Its Mission”
In an interview given to the program Le Club Le Figaro Idées , Cardinal Robert Sarah has offered an uncompromising diagnosis of the situation of the Church and the West ...
Adherence to Apostolic Tradition is What Makes One Catholic
Conservative Catholics often speak of “traditional Catholics” to distinguish them from those Catholics that are lukewarm, heretical, or taken up with the new school of Modernism. But in actuality, the ...
Catholic Church and Casino Operating Under One Roof: ‘They Felt Closer to God’
A Catholic church and a casino are operating under one roof. The sounds of ringing slot machines and chiming jackpots are an unlikely backdrop for Sunday worship, but at one ...
The Incipient and Imminent Threat of “Progressive” Christianity
Matthew 7: 15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.” Matthew 12:34 “You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, ...
Leo’s Church of Women Managers, Handcuffed Bishops, and Harry Potter Liturgies
The report on Leo XIV’s years in Peru is supposed to be flattering. It presents a young priest and later bishop who saw women as the sustaining force of parish ...
Fr. Robert McTeigue: The Church’s Bad Business Model
What if the way that Blockbuster and RadioShack ran their businesses into the ground is the same way that the Church is being run? ...
German Bishops to ask Rome to Permit Lay Homilies
According to Church law, homilies at Mass are “reserved to a priest or deacon,” but lay people can receive permission to preach in a church or oratory, “if necessity requires ...
