Recently, I was presented with a sincere argument asserting that the morality of the real-life Mark Hamill is unassailable due to the fact that he once portrayed the righteous Luke Skywalker. I mention this only to illustrate the point that if you think popular culture and entertainment do not play a role in coloring modern…
After the publication of his report on Theodore McCarrick, I wrote to Msgr. Figueiredo to thank him for his important contribution to cleaning up the corruption in the Church. I also asked if he was planning to address concerns that had been raised by CNA about the verification of his documentation on McCarrick, and his status…
Did you know that only 63% of American Catholics believe in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, and a full 17% of those have no idea that this is what the Church actually teaches? Roughly half of Catholics surveyed don’t know — with anything approaching doctrinal certitude — this essential truth of our…
CC Image courtesy of Marcus Cyron on Wikimedia Commons Tomorrow is the first Saturday of the month, and since we have been asked by our readers to help them remember the observance of the day, we are reprinting this article with a brief explanation of this devotion, which is of central importance to the life of…
Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, the head of the pope’s council of cardinal advisers, has, according to a tweet from National Catholic Register Rome correspondent Edward Pentin, been evacuated from a plane bound for Panama today due to political protests at Honduras airport. According to Pentin’s sources, Maradiaga was secreted away out the back of the airport because…
It has become something of orthodoxy within traditional Catholic circles that we’re destined to win the liturgy and doctrine wars in the end, but this isn’t going to happen without evangelization. Traditional communities are fortresses for us to shelter in, but we can’t be content simply to live behind the ramparts. I’ve heard many Latin…
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 testimony was released in August of 2018 that he personally told the pope about McCarrick.…
In a new, wide-ranging interview with with Mexican journalist Valentina Alazraki published today in Spanish by Vatican News (English summary available here), Pope Francis broke his nearly year-long silence on charges made by former papal nuncio Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò that he knew about Theodore McCarrick’s illicit sexual activities and yet continued to work with with…
Pope Francis left another trail of confusion and frustration with his May 23 homily to the 21st general assembly of Caritas Internationalis. In it, Pope Francis explained that, among other things, Christ did not want the Church to be a perfect model and that the apostles “did not need a bunch of doctrines and traditions,”…
Readers of Father Z’s blog are probably familiar with the motto “Brick by Brick.” The reverend father is here referring to the slow but steady stacking of liturgical improvements over time. I know this works because I have seen it happen, at St. Rita Parish in Alexandria, Virginia (Diocese of Arlington, USA). My then-girlfriend (now…
Uprooted: Dialogues on the Liquid Church Aldo Maria Valli and Aurelio Porfiri Chorabooks 152 pages $16.68 paper, $7.41 Kindle Review by Giuseppe Pellegrino Are you struggling to make sense of all the confusion in the Church and suffering because of it? Then you need to read this book! Uprooted: Dialogues on the Liquid Church is…
