Yesterday, on the occasion of the Rome Film Festival, the director Evgeny Afineevsky presented a documentary called Francesco, which proposes several interviews done with Jorge Mario Bergoglio over the course of the last few years of his pontificate. Among other disconcerting statements, there are several about the legitimization of homosexual civil unions: “What we have…
By a Homeschooling Catholic Mom I just finished Rod Dreher’s outstanding new book, Live Not by Lies. I knew his book discussed the coming soft-totalitarianism, and I was hoping for some ideas of HOW to react to such persecution coming from secular actors, whether the state, big corporations, or both. Dreher provides great encouragement, explaining…
DECLARATION of His Excellency Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò about the documentary film Francesco Rome, October 21st, 2020 – The Vatican News website[1] has reported the news that today at the Rome Film Festival a documentary film will be screened called Francesco made by director Evgeny Afineevsky. This documentary – according to what has been reported…
Despair abounds. A bleak hopelessness seems to be permeating our world, perhaps at more and deeper levels than most of us realize. The pandemic and the ensuing tyrannies are but the very surface, immediately beneath which we find tectonic fissures down to the core of our institutions. The culture wars are really only a skirmish…
I begin with a sentimental longing. The longing is inspired by a scene from Willa Cather’s Shadows on the Rock. The passage takes place in 17th century Quebec, and concerns St. Francois de Laval, the first bishop of Quebec. Behold how the saintly Laval called his flock to Mass every morning: “The Bishop got up at…
Editor’s note: Vicente Montesinos, the director and founder of the Spanish-language Catholic web portal Adoration and Liberation, wrote an open letter to His Excellency, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, published here, at the website of our friend, colleague, and brother in Christ, Marco Tosatti. Today, the good archbishop offers once again his incisive commentary by way…
Editor’s Note: The following exchange comes from an interview between John-Henry Westen of LifeSiteNews and Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò. In the interest of spreading his message further, His Excellency has also provided us with a copy of the text for publication. Please see the original interview with additional commentary at LifeSiteNews. What is your opinon…
Though born in this country, at the age of ten, my mother had the great misfortune of being moved from the bustling city of Providence in Rhode Island, to a tiny hamlet in the mountains just outside of Naples. There she was forced to learn to cook in an open fireplace, to carry a water…
Salvatore Natoli is an Italian philosopher, academic, and author of some renown. Today, we’ve learned that he has some noteworthy opinions on the pope’s new encyclical. First, some background: Natoli, born in 1942, is a product of Catholic higher education and a self-described nonbeliever (but perhaps I repeat myself). He graduated from the Catholic University…
I used to argue with Catholics at the grocery store. I was sixteen years old and a fiery Baptist. I remember attempting to convince an elderly Catholic cashier to abandon the Church for the freedom of my Gospel. There was an exhilaration that came in those days as a young man whom ignorance had blessed…
Since the release of Fratelli Tutti a few days ago, the debate over the Church’s re-imagined position on the death penalty — covered in some depth in the new encyclical — has resumed with gusto. And the questions that surround this “development” — particularly whether it in fact represents a contradiction — have far reaching…
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