The Yucatan. To winter-wearied North Americans, the name revives images of turquoise seas, powder-white beaches, and ancient Maya ruins. The Yucatan Peninsula is alleged to have one of the richest stores of archaeological ruins in the world and is home …
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Are Former Opus Dei Members’ Claims of Cult Tactics & Drugging Being Investigated?
When I was in Regnum Christi — the lay movement of the now-disgraced but somehow still not suppressed Legionaries of Christ — it wasn’t long before it became clear to me that Opus Dei was seen as a direct rival …
Why I Couldn’t Go Back… to the Novus Ordo
On March 8, 2012, the Jesuit magazine America published an article by Fr. Peter Schineller entitled “The Tridentine Mass: Why I Couldn’t Go Back.” For years, I’ve noticed that America actually pays to promote this article in online searches so …
Steve Skojec & Tim Gordon on The Return of the Female Deacons Question
Yesterday, I pinged Tim Gordon about an article on a new international symposium entitled, “Towards a Fundamental Theology of the Priesthood.” In it, I caught the following line: “And among the issues that will be discussed are mandatory priestly celibacy …
Hoeppner Case Highlights Pope’s Deeply Troubling Track Record on Clerical Abuse
Pope Francis is perhaps most controversial for his theological positions or his populist progressive sentiments, but what is often overlooked in evaluations of this lightning rod of a papacy is his absolutely abysmal record on clerical sex abuse. He has …
That Eastertide With Joy Was Slight
Driving down the road one day with my family, we passed by a dead rabbit on the side of the road. At that moment an interior struggle entered my soul, one which every dad surely understands. “Lord, make me less …
Cardinals Parolin & Becciu Implicated in Italian Warrant
Gianluigi Torzi is an Italian businessman at the center of a Vatican real estate investment scandal involving hundreds of millions of dollars spent on the purchase of a building in London. In June of 2020, Torzi was arrested by Vatican …
The Resurrection of the Body: Why Catholics Should Oppose Cremation
Editor’s Note: The Catholic Church has made provision for cremation under certain circumstances in the 1983 Code of Canon Law, a somewhat striking departure from her earlier view on the matter. For an explanation of this modified view, see here. …
Roberto de Mattei: 10 Questions to All Those Holding the “Anti-Vax” Position
My position in defence of the moral liceity of the currently available anti-Covid vaccines has attracted the approval of some cardinals, theologians and priests, whom I thank here, but also the predictable disapproval of many who hold an “anti-vax” position. …
In a Church Full of Wolves, Abuse Victims Struggle to Stay
My friend Joseph Sciambra is a survivor of clerical sexual abuse. By God’s grace, he escaped an incredibly destructive gay lifestyle and has been a champion of sane, orthodox teaching for those with same sex attraction for decades. He has …
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