By A Catholic Dad Christe qui lux est et dies, noctis tenebras detegis, lucisque lumen crederis, lumen beatum predicans. I used to be obsessed with reading Church news. Every time I would get on my computer, I would open my email, Facebook, sometimes Twitter, and a selection Catholic news sites, all traditional, all decrying the…
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, what matters most is for Catholics to understand that the authority for civil powers to…
Let me start by answering the question posed in the headline: we don’t know. YET. But things are looking pretty suspicious. I’ll get to that in more detail in just a bit. First, let’s rewind a little bit to set the scene. The year is 2015. Pell, working as Prefect of the Secretariat for the…
We’ve entered one of those moments again where there’s a a flurry of activity in the Church, and hardly enough time to analyze it in depth. To top it off, I’m feeling like I’m coming down with something and running on far too little sleep, so rather than trying to coax my brain into something…
In recent days, we’ve seen multiple pieces of political commentary from Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, who has stated that, in his view, President Trump has a “decisive” mission “in the epochal confrontation that has been unfolding in recent months.” Viganò in fact went so far as to wax apocalyptic when he said: If Trump loses…
Much has been written in recent days about yet another Vatican scandal, this time involving Cardinal Becciu, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. Faced with accusations that still have to be proven, Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s response seemed to be dictated more by anger than by love of truth, more by a delusion…
INTERVIEW BY FRANCESCO BOEZI WITH ARCHBISHOP CARLO MARIA VIGANÒ 28 September 2020, Saint Wenceslaus, Duke and Martyr Archbishop Viganò, why did you write a letter in favor of President Trump? On August 14, 2011, Pope Benedict XVI let me know that it was his conviction that at that moment my providential position was the Nunciature…
On this episode of the podcast, Steve monologues again, this time diving into the first American Presidential debate, then pivoting to Pope Francis snubbing Cardinal Zen of Hong Kong as the Vatican’s INSANE Ostpolitik with Beijing continues, and finally looking at the question: is it possible to make an idol of the Catholic Church? Big…
As a teenager in the 90s, going to the March for Life, I was struck — and, frankly, disturbed — by the presence certain angry, usually white-haired men, who stood on the sides of Constitution Avenue with giant posters of horribly mutilated human fetuses, bellowing in the direction of the marchers that abortion is murder.…
The Catholic Case for Trump Author: Austin Ruse Publisher: Regnery 208 Pages $12.99 Kindle; $20.99 Hardcover Some Catholic critics of Donald Trump argue that the president’s Catholic supporters are compromising the Faith. Trump’s stance on border control means he is not really pro-life, so the account goes, and for all his pandering to the religious…
Epistle: Apocalypse 1:1-15 Gospel: Matthew 18:1-10 O God, Who assign according to a wondrous order the duties of Angels and men, mercifully grant that our life on earth be guarded by those who continually stand in Your presence and minister to You in heaven. …
