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Author’s note: this article is a significant obiter dictum to the main series of articles linked above. The point it attempts to make is so important, based on the conclusions of part II, that it seems best to publish as a separate article. Part III will follow shortly. If you haven’t already, please read Part…
Over a month ago, on the night of March 30, Jonathan Hoang disappeared from his house near Seattle. He’d gone upstairs to bed on Sunday evening, but when his mother went to wake him for school on Monday morning, he was gone. There are no known suspects yet. Jonathan is autistic, with the outlook and…
A reporter recently asked U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a practicing Catholic, how he reconciled the teachings of the Catholic Church with the Trump administration’s aggressive stance against illegal and mass migration. Rubio gave an interesting answer about the nature of mass migration, but he also insisted that “the pope is not a political…
On a recent Tuesday, beneath a wide, blue sky stretched over the French countryside, two Benedictine Sisters of Montmartre led me into a small room to speak with the bishop who had offered the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. They spoke softly in French to Bishop Pascal Marie Roland, the shepherd of Belley-Ars, who listened…
Traditional, orthodox Roman Catholic believers ought to be extremely grateful that American Catholics do not vote on Catholic doctrine, moral teaching, and ecclesiology. Because if they did, and if they got their way, much of the historic Roman Catholic Church would be swept away into the dustbin of history. This conclusion screams from the pages…
As all the world knows, Chicago native Robert Cardinal Prevost, O.S.A. was elected Pope on May 8, 2025, and took the name Leo XIV. For many of us, the cessation of the preceding Pontificate came, tragically, as a relief. The new Pontiff’s taking of a traditional Papal name and appearance in traditional Papal garments was…
Everyone was wondering if the next Pope would take the name Francis II. Now that this has not happened, we are all wondering how Pope Leo will deal with the legacy of his controversial predecessor. Yesterday Pope Leo made an address “to representatives of other churches and ecclesial communities and other religions” who had attended…
Above: modern Nicaea. Today marks the 1700th anniversary of the first Ecumenical Council—the Council of Nicaea (now İznik, Turkey), convened in 325. This historic gathering took place just a few years after Constantine’s Edict of Milan in 313, which granted the Church freedom of worship. Summoned by Emperor Constantine on May 20 of that year,…
Perchance, you haven’t noticed. But for the past sixty years or so a pitched battle has been waged in the Church, something close to Jacobin revolution. Of course, its birth was simultaneous with a most prominent event. But even mentioning it would earn immediate censure, so, I will not. (So much for Synodal listening. I…
The speculations about what kind of pope Leo XIV will be range from outrageous scurrility to overenthusiastic embrace. I have read terrible things on the far end of the ultra “conservative” enclaves on the Internet and ridiculous things from the official liberal “Catholic” who seems to be whistling past the cemetery. Not only do some…
