Modernism

Bishop Strickland Against the World
A few days ago I commented that Bishop Strickland seems to be following the path of Ven. Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, in going around preaching the Gospel like a good ...

The Shift from Timeless Beauty to Trendy Mascots: A Modernist Infiltration of the Church’s Artistic Tradition
The Vatican’s decision to adopt cartoonish, trivialized symbols, such as the blue-haired ‘Luce’ mascot, is a symptom of a disturbing shift within the Church. The current trend moving the Church ...

What Will Be Left for Catholics After Francis?
I’ve spent most of my life defending and advancing the claims of the Catholic Church. In fact, I’ve written nine books doing just that. And my commitment goes back much ...

A Holy Cardinal Explains the Effects of Modernism
Cardinal Mercier, primate of Belgium September 8, 1907 Dearly Beloved Brethren, On July 3rd, 1907, the Holy Father prepared a list of errors which, later, were grouped together under the ...

‘Progressive’ Christianity Is a Suicide Cult
Don’t drink the Kool-Aid, even if your pope or pastor is pouring it. Day in and day out, both in the press and in the pulpit, leftists try to use ...

Pope St. Pius X Defended the Church against the Rising Tide of Modernism
The primary aim of his pontificate Pius X announced in his first encyclical letter, viz., “to renew all things in Christ.” Here we need but allude to his decree on ...

Outrage as Vatican Drops ‘Before Christ’ for ‘Before Common Era’
Catholics have accused the Vatican of betraying Jesus by substituting the term “Before Christ” with “Before Common Era” in official documentation. The traditional term BC was replaced by BCE in ...

75 Years after George Orwell’s ‘1984,’ We are Awash in Newspeak and Doublethink
The Book of Genesis explains that God created the universe by His word alone, speaking the world into existence. As we read throughout the first chapter of Genesis, “God said, ...

Pope Francis Wants to Humanize the Church, Instead of Helping Sinners Repent, Part 2
For Part 1 of this essay, click here. Philip Rieff’s 1966 book The Triumph of the Therapeutic examined how the therapeutic mentality had swept through secular culture. What was less ...

Living Tradition in a Novus Ordo World
Since the advent of Traditionis Custodes our Bishop has retained two locations in our diocese where parishioners can have access to the Tridentine Rite with committed priests who offer both ...

How Modernizing the Church Gave Rise to Christophobia
Christianity is today, as it has been for 2000 years, a threat: a threat to that which is corrupt in society, and the nemesis of those who prosper from society’s ...

Bishop Schneider: Modernism Has Been Realized In All Its Devastating Consequences
Bishop Athanasius Schneider, the auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan, kindly granted LifeSite an interview about his new book, Flee from Heresy: A Catholic Guide to Ancient and Modern Errors (Sophia ...

WATCH: Is Viganò the Athanasius of our Age?
Dr. Robert Moynihan and Father Charles Murr discuss the excommunication of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò and the parallels with the crisis surrounding St. Athanasius of Alexandria in the 4th century ...

Pope Preaching Universalism? Heaven is for ‘Everyone, Everyone, Everyone’
Heaven is not a secure vault protected from outsiders but a "hidden treasure" that is reached by cultivating virtues, Pope Francis said. Before praying the Angelus in St. Peter's Square ...

What to Do When Pope Francis Tells You Not to Pray the “Rogue” Psalms
“Do you not know that so much reading of Scripture ruins the Catholic religion?” an incandescent Pope Paul V asked the Venetian ambassador Francesco Contarini in 1606. The Italian historian ...

The Masonic Plan to Destroy the Catholic Church with Ecumenism
For the past three centuries Freemasons have sought to dethrone the papacy and place ecumenical bodies in power and Rome is now calling for this decentralization of Church power to ...

The Pope’s Right-Hand Man
When Pope Francis first asked if he would be willing to take one of the loftiest jobs at the Vatican, heading the office that sets the policies of the Roman ...

WATCH: Bishop Strickland’s Warning: A Storm is Coming!
Jim Havens interviews Bishop Joseph Strickland about his advice to the faithful for navigating our confusing times and preparing for what he describes as "a coming storm unlike anything ever ...

Pope Pius IX’s Qui Pluribus is Alone Capable of Defeating Catholicism’s Enemies
In 1846, Blessed Pius IX began his first papal encyclical, Qui Pluribus (On Faith and Religion), by describing his purpose in writing to the Church’s bishops: “Its purpose is to ...

WATCH: Cardinal Sarah Warns of Dangers of ‘Practical Atheism’ Even Within Church
More than 30 years ago, Pope St. John Paul II helped bring about the downfall of the Soviet Union, which had sought to impose its Communist atheism on his native ...

Making Reparation For the Offenses Against the Sacred Heart of Jesus That Have Grown Progressively Worse Since Vatican II
In his June 5, 2024 General Audience, Francis announced his intention to publish a document on devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in September: “We are passing through this ...