Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò is in the news again today after the release of a new, 8,000-word interview with the Washington Post. According to the post, the interview was conducted via email over a period of two months, with the former U.S. papal nuncio providing answers to some 40 questions. Those who have read previous Viganò testimonies will find…
“In our time the Church is experiencing one of the greatest spiritual epidemics, that is, an almost universal doctrinal confusion and disorientation, which is a seriously contagious danger for spiritual health and eternal salvation for many souls. At the same time one has to recognize a widespread lethargy in the exercise of the Magisterium on…
Cardinal Kasper on switching from ordaining women to the lesser obstacle of married priests. Pope Francis pushing again for Intercommunion. And George Weigel (did you know he wrote a biography of JPII?) reveals he could have backed up Archbishop Vigano’s claims about sanctions on McCarrick all along. This weeks most interesting news we didn’t get…
Recently, I heard famous social media magnate and business speaker Gary Vaynerchuck talk about how he would be remembered. He said, “The reality is, I’m driven by legacy. Every decision I make is predicated on the long term. It’s not about what’s in my bank account, it’s about how many people will attend my funeral.”…
After the publication of his report on Theodore McCarrick, I wrote to Msgr. Figueiredo to thank him for his important contribution to cleaning up the corruption in the Church. I also asked if he was planning to address concerns that had been raised by CNA about the verification of his documentation on McCarrick, and his status…
Did you know that only 63% of American Catholics believe in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, and a full 17% of those have no idea that this is what the Church actually teaches? Roughly half of Catholics surveyed don’t know — with anything approaching doctrinal certitude — this essential truth of our…
Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, the head of the pope’s council of cardinal advisers, has, according to a tweet from National Catholic Register Rome correspondent Edward Pentin, been evacuated from a plane bound for Panama today due to political protests at Honduras airport. According to Pentin’s sources, Maradiaga was secreted away out the back of the airport because…
In an interview published yesterday, Pope Francis finally addressed the allegations made by former US Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò that he knew about the illicit sexual activities of former-Cardinal (and Bergoglio-promoter) Theodore McCarrick. Viganò has always claimed since his first testimony was released in August of 2018 that he personally told the pope about McCarrick.…
In a new, wide-ranging interview with with Mexican journalist Valentina Alazraki published today in Spanish by Vatican News (English summary available here), Pope Francis broke his nearly year-long silence on charges made by former papal nuncio Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò that he knew about Theodore McCarrick’s illicit sexual activities and yet continued to work with with…
Yesterday, I received an email from a young man who informs me that this week, the South American nation of Brazil was re-consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary with the (partial – and somewhat odd) participation of the country’s president, Jair Messias Bolsonaro. The email comes from Vitor Sousa, an 18-year-old engineering student at…
Earlier this week, the 102nd anniversary of the first Fatima message came to pass. Many Catholics never expected to see the end of the centenary year without some great miracle transpiring — some heavenly signal to bring about the end of the present chastisement. And yet here we are, two years later, with no further answers.…
