New research from Pew published this month indicates that only 26% of US Catholics under the age of 40 believe in the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. In his book, Index of Leading Catholic Indicators, Kenneth C. Jones …
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Why the Death Penalty Teaching Change Is a Perfect Doctrinal Trojan Horse
I’ve already written at length about the longstanding Catholic teaching about the death penalty and why Pope Francis is wrong in his attempts to change it. I won’t, therefore, rehash those arguments here. For the purposes of this particular debate, …
The “Novus Ordo Paradigm” — What It Is and Why It Matters
Earlier today, I was engaged in a discussion on Facebook in which, after saying something about the “Novus Ordo Paradigm,” someone asked me, rather indignantly, what that phrase means. I did my best to explain it, and I’d like to …
On Independence Day
Four years ago this week, in an America that could not have predicted the election of Donald Trump, I wrote a column about the failing American experiment. The title, “A Republic Not Kept Is Lost,” referred to the words of …
Desecrating the Legacy of the American Martyr St. Jean de Brébeuf
“On March 16,” writes a modern-day Jesuit of his forebear in faith, the missionary martyr St. Jean de Brébeuf, “the Iroquois attacked the village and took the Hurons, who were mainly Christians, along with Jean and another Jesuit, Gabriel Lalement, prisoner. …
The Disastrous State of Things
Looking out across the Catholic landscape, things are pretty grim. We are losing this war. I talked to someone yesterday who is close to one of the American seminary abuse scandals and helped bring it to light. “It can’t hold …
Archbishop Viganò on Bransfield, Rossi, and the “Gay Mafia”
Editor’s note: The interview excerpts in the following piece were given by Archbishop Viganò to Italian journalist and author Marco Tosatti as a follow-up to his Washington Post interview and were published over the weekend in Italian at Tosatti’s website. …
Knights of Malta Coup Turns Inward; TLM Banned in Apparent Violation of Summorum Pontificum
We have written at considerable length about the tragic saga of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta in these pages over the past two years. In my most recent piece, I discussed how the recent election has highlighted how fully …
Viganò Accuses the Pope of Lying As Vatican is Caught Redacting Papal Interview
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 …
Pray for Hong Kong
Yesterday, I received a message from a young Catholic in Hong Kong, after I posted something on social media about their current plight. “I am a Hongkonger,” he said, “and thank you for your recent post on Hong Kong. There …
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