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In an instant, the racism of the Democrat Left was exposed. It came as a reaction to a Trump meme that was really a Rorschach Test. Two pictures, side by side; calm on one side, chaos on the other; safety on one, impending danger on the other. On one side, a nice quiet neighborhood, brick…
With the end of the National Eucharistic Congress as the capstone of the three-year Eucharistic Renewal, the question follows: What comes next? The entire exercise initially originated as a response to results of a 2019 Pew survey that suggested a majority of Catholics do not understand what the Church teaches about the Eucharist. I am…
If you have no spirituality, you have no soul. Let me explain why the Second Vatican Council came to have no soul. It involves going back to the Early Church and a whistle-stop tour of the history of Catholic spirituality. Almost everyone knows about the heresy of Arianism that tore the Church apart in the…
As we saw in Part I, Archbishop Viganò’s current position hinges on the belief that Francis’s legitimacy is highly (if not certainly) doubtful, but is that really the case? Not according to the doctrine known as peaceful and universal acceptance, which the renowned Jesuit canonists Fr. Francis X. Wernz (1842-1914) and Fr. Peter Vidal (1867-1938)…
I have never met Fr. Flum, the devil’s “public enemy” and subject of The Hermit: The Priest Who Saved a Soul, a Marriage, and a Family (Ignatius, 2024). At this point, I likely never will—now that he’s “completely off the grid, gone forever like absolved sin,” as the author of said book, Kevin Wells, relayed…
As a nation, we’re going broke—in multiple senses. But what I call the Scarlett O’Hara Defense (“I’ll think about it tomorrow”) and psychologists call “normalcy bias” allows us to go about our semi-normal lives even when the country has no leader, is involved in two proxy wars, is staggering under a ballooning national debt that…
I want you to take a journey with me back in time, deep in the mists of history, to a time when many little dictators ruled a land and the people were controlled in virtually every aspect of their lives, and they accepted this dictatorial control willingly. Yes, I want you to go all the…
From the release of his initial Testimony in August of 2018 to the present, I have followed Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò’s public statements with great interest and reported on them frequently. I wrote, for example, in September of 2019, when he was just beginning to examine the Second Vatican Council more thoroughly (both the historical…
Last week, on the morning of August 7th, Pope Francis, just before his regular Wednesday general audience, received a group of representatives from the Afghan Muslim community in Italy. He touched upon the “complicated and dramatic history [in Afghanistan], marked by a succession of wars and blood-stained conflicts, which have made it very difficult for…
The Holy Father has issued a letter recommending to all Catholics, and to seminarians and priests especially, the reading of imaginative literature. He suggests that literature should be a part of every seminary’s curriculum, something that I have long believed in; and we do seem to agree on some of the reasons for it. For…
