The Hillbilly Thomists and the Key to Culture...
An article caught my eye this week at Food & Wine explaining how long-shuttered scotch distilleries are reopening. The "ghost distilleries" that dot the untamed Scottish countryside are firing up their stills again and producing the liquid gold that never quite went out of style. Despite shuttering in the 70s, labels like Port Ellen and Brora, saw their reputations increase instead of erased...
Pope Francis Canonizes 14 New Saints, Including 11 ‘Martyrs of Damascus’...
The Reformation is over. Come home...
To me, October 31st is Halloween. No, not the gruesome Halloween. Not the celebration of the occult that our culture has increasingly leaned into since at least the 1990s.October 31st is, rather, the more innocent Halloween of my 1970s childhood. An opportunity for treats, not tricks. A fun time for our youngest, still in grade school, to dress up in a costume that gets no closer to the occult than, say, Casper the Friendly Ghost.
The Rise of Archbishop Fabre?
When the U.S. bishops’ conference announced on a Tuesday a slate of candidates for committee chairmanships and an executive leadership position, one name may have stood out to some ecclesiastical observers — that of Archbishop Shelton Fabre of Louisville. Fabre’s nomination to chair the USCCB’s domestic and human development committee is the latest nod to a prelate...
If ‘The Wild Robot’ is not a perfect movie, it’s the best kind of mostly perfect movie...
Watching Chris Sanders’s The Wild Robot, I felt things I haven’t felt in a very long time watching a Hollywood animated movie outside the Spider-Verse: wonder, discovery, joy. If it’s not a perfect movie, it’s the best kind of mostly perfect movie: the kind where the missteps, if they are missteps, don’t diminish the delight of the perfect parts. The perfect parts are the first two-thirds, which play a bit like a lost masterpiece from the era of Pixar greatness
What Are 10 Things I Should Know About Daniel?
Daniel was one of the many hostages taken from the Jewish aristocracy during the first wave of the Babylonian Exile. Together with three of his close companions—Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah (or, as they are later renamed by the Babylonians, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego)—he was forced to leave his homeland of Judah...
3 Years Later, Canadian ‘Mass Graves’ Claims Remain Unproven...
Touching Death: Mourning Physically through Burial...
How we bury our dead is a crucial part of life. We have gotten away from the wise practices of our ancestors. If how they did burial was largely out of necessity, we might still discover just how important those practices are, how much we really need them today. And we can choose them, at least some of them, again. The day we buried my father some years ago was one of the most important days of my life...
Archdiocese of Los Angeles Payouts for Clergy Abuse Top $1.5 Billion With New Record Settlement...
Are Catholic Universities a Good Investment?
Over milkshakes and burgers, one of my student’s fathers said to me that he could not thank me enough for the kind of formation his daughter was getting in the classics and in the faith at my university. He said we were providing her something that he himself could not have provided, and he even suggested that we run a summer program for parents at our satellite campus in Rome.
Sifting the Synod for the Divinity...
Christ Connects the World’s Spring and Autumn...
New Study of St. Teresa of Avila’s Relics Reveals ‘Incredible’ Initial Findings ...
God or Nothing? Modern Science Points Only One Way, Says French Author...
Catholic’s Ministry Is Collecting Used Religious Objects to Give to Churches in Need of Them...
How ‘Special Interest Advocacy’ Works at the Synod on Synodality...
Let’s talk about Arminianism from a Catholic perspective...
One of the biggest schools of thought in the Protestant world is known as Arminianism, and today we’re going to find out if an Arminian would need to change his views in order to become a Catholic. Over thirty years ago, I wrote a piece called A Tiptoe Through Tulip, in which I explored how close a Catholic could be to Calvinism without violating Catholic teaching...
Father (soon to be Cardinal) Radcliffe says he can’t understand why so many African bishops resist accepting homosexuality...
Father Radcliffe would have us believe that the external pressure on Africans culture reflects the financial clout of American Evangelicals and Russian Orthodox. But the missionary efforts of those small groups is miniscule in comparison with the enormous sums that have been poured into Africa by the European Union and the Obama and Biden administrations, whose foreign-aid programs are designed to promote the gay agenda...
The pitchforks are out for the German bishops after their ‘farmer-bashing’ study...
Bishops were engaged in damage control this week after a study commissioned by the German bishops’ conference provoked uproar among the nation’s farmers — with many saying they would leave the Church over the controversy. Bishop Rudolf Voderholzer told farming representatives Oct. 15 that the study was published by an expert group without the bishops’ knowledge and did not express his views.
Vatican letter settles (and raises) questions about U.S. Mass obligation...
Salazar Shows the Need for the Same Norms for Abusive Bishops...
The Dallas Charter and norms in every diocese are very clear that a priest who is accused of abuse of a minor is put on administrative leave based solely on the accusation and it is announced at the parishes he served at in case other victims want to come forward. If the accusations are shown to be founded, more likely true than false, or other similar terminology, the priest is laicized...
What it means to be “welcome” in the Catholic Church...
In the last few days we have seen two instances of high-ranking Church leaders either refusing to speak clearly or deliberately speaking unclearly about the fundamental principles of Catholic faith and morals. Phil Lawler has already commented on the recent failure by Pope Francis to speak truth to transgender power. And our news team has reported the willful distortions of the Church’s position on homosexuality...
The Moms and Dads of the Synod on Synodality...
Earlier this month, Maria Sabov received an unexpected FaceTime call from her 9-year-old son Pavlo while she was in an important meeting. He needed some help with his homework.The 37-year-old mother of three quickly answered her son’s questions about their native Ukrainian language — and then got back to work as a voting member at the ongoing Synod on Synodality in Rome.
Vatican Statistics: Catholic Population Shrinks in Europe, Rises Everywhere Else...
Why Does the Bible Never Condemn Slavery as an Institution?
The World’s Loneliness Is an Opportunity for the Catholic Church...
She no longer went to church, yet she told me, “I don’t believe, but I miss having a church community.” She may not have believed any longer, but she still missed the support of a church community and the friendships that came with it. I believe this is not only a problem, but an opportunity. The loneliness of the world is a major opportunity for the modern Catholic Church.
Live From Rome, It’s Synodality!...
The Third Crisis of the Church: What It Means and 5 Things You Can Do...
The Vatican Pushes for Peace as the War in Ukraine Approaches Its Third Winter...
Neutrality and Nobility: How the Order of Malta Runs Its Diplomatic Service...
How to Make a Family Necrology — and Why You Should Do It...
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