Over at his blog at The American Conservative, Rod Dreher shares a couple of emails from readers about their experiences in the Catholic Church in both Canada and the United States. The stories are awful, but they’re not surprising. The …
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Mercy is for Sinners
I have a love-hate relationship with confession. I hate it because it’s never very comfortable to admit the stupid, shameful, ridiculous things I do. I wait in the line with a head full of exaggeration, thinking of myself like a …
Cancelling Flannery O’Connor
Over at The Catholic Thing this morning, Randall Smith has an delightfully scathing piece entitled “The Artificial Jesuit” (a reference to one of Flannery O’Connor’s short stories). Smith tackles the decision made by Fr. Brian F. Linnane, S.J., president of Loyola University …
The Knights of Malta: Disunity and Disorientation
A few days ago, OnePeterFive published an article describing the epic reverse suffered by Baron Albrecht von Boeselager, grand chancellor of the Order of Malta, in his attempt to force through a “reforming” Chapter General with his own secularizing agenda. …
Knives Out: Knights of Malta Saga Reaches New Crisis Point
Editor’s Note: Malta Insider is a pseudonym that encompasses the collaborative efforts of multiple concerned insiders with knowledge of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. The internal civil war that has been running in the Order of Malta for the …
Steve Skojec & Joseph Sciambra Talk About Catholic Cults, Homosexuality in the Church, & the Legionaries of Christ
Last week, I was invited to be a guest on Joseph Sciambra’s new show, Finding Our Father. The topic was Catholic Cults and Homosexuality in the Church, with a specific focus on my experiences spent with the most notorious of …
Msgr. Georg Ratzinger, Brother to Pope Benedict XVI, Has Died
On Wednesday of this week, Msgr. Georg Ratzinger, the older brother of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, passed away. At age 96, the elder Ratzinger brother had recently been hospitalized in Regensburg, and in a visit that made international headlines, Joseph …
The Rebelling Peasants
“Social distancing.” The “distancing” part is obvious enough: stay at home, and if you have to venture out, maintain the six-foot buffer zone. The “social” part is more difficult; we rack our brains for ways of overcoming our isolation, spending …
Viganò: Vatican II Marked The Beginning of a False, Parallel Church
I feel the need to offer a preface to the following text, the latest essay from Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, because I have recently been accused of being an opponent of his. This is not true, but the misperception is …
The Backhanded Compliment: Fr. Longenecker on Traditionalists
In his latest column, “Bishop Barron Takes on the Rad Trads,” Fr. Dwight Longenecker manages to insult nearly all traditionalists (“they’re not all nut jobs”: gee, thanks!), while at the same time, to his credit, says something important that probably …
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