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There is no doubt in my mind that Leo is the true and valid pope. The question in my mind is, “the pope of what?” “He is the pope of the Catholic Church,” you might say. Your answer assumes that the Church of Rome is the Holy Catholic Church that was founded by Jesus Christ….
Russian novels tend to be about as big and sprawling as that larger-than-life country itself: Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, Tolstoy’s War and Peace, Goncharov’s Oblomov, Solzhenitsyn’s Cancer Ward, and the crowd-pleasing Doctor Zhivago by Pasternak. Each stretches well over 500 pages—and even the “short” stories of Chekhov can border on novellas. So it should probably…
The latest assassination attempt on President Trump is shocking only in that it is no longer shocking. Every American should be alarmed at what happened at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner this past Saturday, yet what prevails instead is a “ho-hum” attitude, as if violence against our political leaders—especially against Trump or anyone associated with…
Proudhon’s rabid and raging cry against capitalism, “property is theft,” has echoed from its original utterance in the 19th century into the 21st. Now found both online and on placards at rallies, it has escaped its anarchist environs and burrowed its way into mainstream thinking in blue states like California and New York, where increasingly…
Pope Leo XIV rejected the blessing of homosexual unions last Thursday, and for this the Church ought to be grateful. It surely isn’t easy to contradict the consensus opinion of Western society and to open oneself up to the vicious criticisms of the modern media, especially for a public figure exposed to such global scrutiny…
Editor’s note: in light of yesterday’s news, pictured above, we publish this article from Dr. Kmita addressing the central dogma at stake. In an interesting article entitled “Baptism, salvation, and the necessity of the Church,” Dr. Larry Chapp discusses a challenging issue raised by Pope Benedict XVI in a 2015 interview (originally in Italian) recently…
What was the fear that drove the disciples into the Upper Room on the day Jesus rose from the dead? Was it the Jews, eager to wipe them out just as they had succeeded in getting Christ crucified? Is that what sent them cowering behind closed doors? The account in John’s Gospel clearly says so….
“What are the signs that you would expect to find in a person that would enable you to judge whether or not they are good Catholics?” That is the first question I was asked when I went in to my first oral examination. I answered with uncharacteristic assertiveness, The smiles all around, the heads that…
Above: Pope Francis’s last public appearance on Easter Sunday. In his Super Hanc Petram: The Pope and the Church at a Dramatic Moment in History—a book highly praised by such figures as Bishop Athanasius Schneider, Roberto de Mattei, Eduardo Echeverria, Philip Lawler, and José Antonio Ureta—Fr. Serafino Lanzetta seeks to offer a profound theological analysis…
When my eldest daughter was four, we found a gorgeous children’s book at our local library that retold the story of St. George of Merry England from Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene. Every day, she would pour over the pictures of the brave knight, wearing a white robe emblazoned with a red cross, locked in…
