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Above: Shanghai, China. It appears that once again, Beijing has delivered another blow to the Holy See by consecrating a bishop to the pivotal Diocese of Shanghai after he was elected during the papal sede vacante. On October 15, Father Wu Jianlin will be consecrated as auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Shanghai. News of…
The Apostolic Exhortation Dilexi Te, published by Pope Leo XIV on October 9, 2025, serves as the connecting link between the pontificates of Francis and Prevost. Topics echo those reiterated relentlessly over the past twelve years: poverty, a poor Church, the primacy of welfare, condemnation of economic inequality, social justice, theology of the people, the…
If you are a Catholic writer, reporter, columnist, or chat show host and you want to keep your followers happy, then you can talk about the merits or demerits of synodality. You can talk about private or public revelations. You can talk about the liturgy as the solution to all our problems, once we get…
Our diocese has asked the priests to promote a short survey about the laity to the faithful for a projected USCCB Pastoral Letter on the Laity. I wish that there would have been a survey about what kind of pastoral letters we need from the Bishops’ Conference, for I think the vocation crisis might be…
Above: the Criseros laid down their lives for the Faith which Columbus brought to the New World. Editor’s note: in honour of the 4th annual “Thanksgiving for Columbus Day,” we continue our Cristero series from Miss Theresa Marie Moreau as a part of our Hispanidad content. These holy martyrs laid down their lives in thanksgiving…
Georgetown Law professors William Treanor and Amy Uelmen have crafted a remarkably dishonest defense of diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, disguising radical left-wing ideology as Catholic tradition. Their recent essay in America magazine represents not scholarly analysis but pure propaganda, a cynical attempt to baptize secular progressivism with holy water while hoping no one notices…
In the United States last year, 25 people were executed by law. The shortest time between conviction and execution was nine years; the average was 25 years. All were men. This was the racial breakdown: 13 white, nine black, two Hispanic, one Native American. That was in accord with the ratios of murderers in those…
As often happens with the most portentous and far-reaching events, the learned and the clever will be the last to know. Something undeniably huge and seismic took place in a tiny town in the Eastern Mediterranean more than two millennia ago, and scarcely anyone took notice. “A star shone forth in the heavens,” wrote St….
As the northern hemisphere drifts from the fullness of summer into the crisp melancholy of autumn, Holy Church too moves into a season of spiritual harvest. In her ancient cycle of Sundays, formed in the lands where the light fades earlier each day, she begins to turn her gaze toward the final realities – the…
When speaking about freedom or liberty as Catholics, we must always keep in mind that we have a different understanding than the liberal version, which undergirds post-Christendom nation-states such as the United States and many other nations that have reformed their governance since the revolutionary eras. For a Catholic, freedom exists in the psychological sphere…
