The Vatican grapevine informs us that the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation on Marriage is expected to be released this Saturday, March 19th. Yes, that’s the Feast of St. Joseph, because irony. Unsurprisingly, there are serious reasons for concern: Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia reportedly disclosed the news today at a conference with priests in Portugal, according to Il Sismografo, a semi-official Vatican news aggregator…
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I have to be honest: things aren’t looking good for us in the finance department. Fundraising was low in January, and I hoped it was a quirk. It was worse in February, but I kept praying. Now it’s March, and things are not looking up. In the first three months of 2016 combined, we’ve raised…
On the heels of my post about Church Militant’s work exposing the “gay mafia” in the New York Archdiocese, I offer you this bit of bright light in the darkness. Retired Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Nebraska, has never been known for being quiet about his opinions. During his time, he was seen by “conservative” Catholics…
Despite what should be a natural synergy between our organizations, I’ve had a frustrating relationship with the folks at Church Militant. I don’t know, nor have I ever interacted with, Michael Voris. I’ve had unpleasant run-ins with certain influential members of their organization. My essay insisting that Catholics have a duty to criticize the errors of a pope…
I recently took a trip across the country, and, as it happened, found myself in a certain chapel (under the care of one of the traditional Catholic priestly societies in good standing) for the Third Sunday of Lent. As the homily began, my ears immediately perked up at a quotation from 1 Peter 5. What followed was…
Pope Francis, in his recent address to the priests who will act as “Missionaries of Mercy,” once again placed himself at odds with established (and infallible) Catholic teaching, when he undermined the very matter and form of the sacrament of confession (all emphasis in the following quotes is mine): If someone comes to you and…
There’s something of a joke among alert Vatican watchers. Whenever Pope Francis says something that is overtly, unquestionably orthodox, it means that something far more troubling will come out of his mouth just days — possibly even hours — later. If you know what to look for, you’ll begin to notice that this pattern is remarkably…
The fallout from Pope Francis’ comments on Zika and contraception continue. I’ve already shared my thoughts on the need for public correction by our bishops of the error (that contraception is justified to prevent birth defects caused by viral transmission) propagated by Francis. Privately, I’ve begun to hear from moral theologians and Catholic medical professionals who…
When I was an adolescent, my understanding of faith and politics was developed around the dinner table of my uncle. Several families would routinely get together at his home, and the men would invariably sit and discuss world affairs and the state of the Church, debating their points, reminding each other of Catholic teaching, hammering out…
For the second time in a month, we’ve had a post begin generating errors and failing to load once the number of comments on it approaches 400. We believe this is a problem with the Disqus plugin, so we’ve had to turn it off for now, until we can find a solution. This means that the…
