Some of you have asked about the condition of John Vennari, the publisher of Catholic Family News, who is gravely ill with cancer and was originally not expected to live beyond his birthday on February 24th. On Saturday, Michael Matt, editor of The Remnant, posted an update on Vennari: Dear Friends of John Vennari: John is still with…
In a new pastoral letter issued for Lent, the Maltese bishops have attempted to downplay the permissiveness of their guidelines on Amoris Laetitia. A look at the guidelines themselves tells the real story.
On March 13, 2013, I sat in my office and watched my screen as a new pope — a man whom I had never seen before that moment — walked out onto the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica. I had never heard of him. I did not even know his name. Like most Catholics, I had…
Over at LifeSiteNews, Pete Baklinksy and Claire Chretien (both of whom are, by the way, doing some of the most important work in Catholic journalism today) have compiled a list of bishops and cardinals who have spoken out publicly both for and against the dubia pertaining to Amoris Laetitia. I’m not positive that the list is comprehensive — I noticed…
(Image source) Attention Washington DC area readers: Professor Roberto de Mattei, Catholic historian, President of the Lepanto Foundation, and author of over twenty books, including one of the seminal works on Vatican II: The Second Vatican Council – An Unwritten Story, will be giving a lecture on the crisis in the Church at the Cosmos Club in…
Our friends at the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter have some mission trips coming up in Mexico and Peru, and they’ve asked me to help spread the word before registration closes. I’ve written before about my own experiences as a Catholic missionary in the 1990s, which I would have to say were among the most…
As regular readers know, our fundraising efforts run pretty much constantly. While this can admittedly be a nuisance at times, it’s our belief that by setting smaller, more manageable monthly fundraising goals, we’re better able to work with our supporters on a basis that isn’t as big of a burden as a (more commonly seen)…
Guest: Dr. Michael Sirilla, Professor of Dogmatic Theology, Franciscan University of Steubenville Description: “The Snowbank” is the term Steve came up with, eventually, to try to describe this episode’s haphazard dive into the aftermath of Amoris Laetitia. “I don’t know if you’ve ever had to shovel the snowbank at the end of the driveway after the plow goes…
(Image: Prassede Mosaic depicting “Episcopa” Theodora, believed by feminist theologians to be an example of women’s ordination in the Early Church; Source) On May 12, 2016, during a meeting with 800 women serving as general superiors of religious orders from around the world, Pope Francis surprised Catholics everywhere when he announced that he was preparing to…
We have been warning our readers for some time about the increasing and open embrace of preternatural evil in the 21st century world. From a catalog of recent satanic events in culture and public life to undisguised occult imagery in pop culture to the role of “spirit cooking” in the 2016 US presidential election to…
My friend Michael Hichborn of The Lepanto Institute did a podcast about a month ago that I just listened to this afternoon. It is a striking reflection on the parallels between the actions of Judas as recorded in the four gospels and the crisis in the Church in 2017. I highly recommend it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv7IzFiD-qk?rel=0
