Examining the Jesuit doctrinal hammerlock on the Roman Curia...
Fr. Raymond de Souza
Five years ago July 1, Pope Francis dismissed the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Gerhard Müller, elevating his deputy at the same time. With the first Jesuit pope appointing a fellow Jesuit, Archbishop Luis Ladaria, as prefect, the Society of Jesus had a hammerlock on doctrinal authority in the Roman Curia...

The unborn Savior comes to meet the unborn...
K.V. Turley
It should not have surprised us. But it did. The timing, that is — or more particularly, the day on which the announcement came, when Roe v. Wade was no more. Eventually, when the news did come, it was a poignant moment. The rumor mill had been working overtime for weeks. A leaked draft purporting to be the text of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) pronouncement in the case of Dobbs v...

Pope Hopes China Deal on Bishops Will Be Renewed Soon...

Pope’s Sunday Angelus: Evangelization Is Not ‘Personal Activism’ but a Witness of Love...

Musings on possibly the greatest road not taken in papal history...
John Allen
Today marks the 173rd anniversary of a milestone moment in the modern history of the Catholic Church, one with reverberations that continue to be felt to this day. As it happens, it’s also an anniversary that calls to mind perhaps the greatest road not taken in the entire history of the papacy. It was on July 3, 1849, that French troops breached Rome to end the brief-lived Roman Republic under Italian patriot Giuseppe Mazzini...

Here’s a phenomenal visualization of the 1527 Sack of Rome, a momentous event in Catholic history...

Solidarity, liturgy, and your Weekend Update...
Ed Condon
The Fourth of July has always held a special place in my heart. Spending more than half of my life in the UK, it was always a day I took a certain grim satisfaction celebrating “in exile,” so to speak. When I worked in Parliament, I would treat myself to a box of PG Tips and spend a few minutes standing on the terrace of the Palace of Westminster...

Scientists say they've solved a 700-year-old mystery: Where and when Black Death began...

“What is truth?” — 10 Catholic responses to pro-choice objections...
R. Jared Staudt
Truth has been eclipsed in our culture — this much should be obvious. We no longer accept even the most basic aspects of reality and refuse to affirm that we can even know them at all. Life, the most basic tenet of reality itself, has become a flashpoint in our flight from reality. In opposing the specious arguments of the pro-choice movement...

Know Your Scams #1 — What’s the deal with those Indian phone scams, and how can you help your loved ones not to fall prey to them?

Know Your Scams #2 — What’s the deal with those weird wrong-number texts you’ve been getting?

Where have you gone, Jacques Maritain?
Daniel Philpott
On the sixth of the month, far-right agitators assaulted the national legislature, leaving several dead and many more wounded. The next month, amid a public debate so fractious as to elicit warnings of civil war, a group of Catholic philosophers signed a manifesto pleading for the common good and saying no to anti-democratic forces...

Watching Virgil Earp, nephew of Wyatt Earp, on this 1958 game show is like taking a time machine to the Old West...

Will the next pope be Hungarian? A closer look at Péter Cardinal Erdő... ...

Raleigh church fire being investigated as arson...

Where does a legendary 225-year-old working warship get its parts? At the U.S. Navy forest, of course...

Vatican inconsistencies: A Tale of Two Bishops...
Edward Pentin
The contrasting recent handling by the Vatican of two bishops has highlighted concerns about discrepancies in the disciplining of bishops, with no explanation available why one of the two bishop was dismissed while the other has been allowed to remain in office. The two cases involve Bishop Daniel Fernández Torres of Arecibo, Puerto Rico...

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