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I first met Erick Ybarra over 10 years ago after I had left Eastern Orthodoxy and reconciled myself with the Holy Father (“I Left Eastern Orthodoxy for the Church Led by Pope Francis, and I Don’t Regret It”). Since that time, I have been very blessed to know Erick as a friend and we have…
Recently, Eric Sammons shared the grim results of a Pew Survey on religion in America. The survey found that only 19 percent of Americans self-identify as Catholic, a 20 percent decrease from the 24 percent who did so in 2007. For every 100 people who enter the Catholic Church, 840 depart it. To make matters…
Later this month a conference promising to lead Catholics from “diabolical deception to [the] restoration of truth” will be held in Wisconsin. The headline speaker is Fr. Chad Ripperger, predictably leading Where Peter Is founder Mike Lewis to pen another unhinged rant against Fr. Ripperger, this time calling him “wildly heterodox, superstitious, and conspiratorial.” Last…
Lent is the season instituted for penance and more intentionally uniting our sufferings with those of Christ on the cross – to crucify our flesh – in order to prepare our souls for the our greatest liturgical celebration of the year at Easter. This preparation, though historically varying in length and how it was counted,…
On Saturday, March 8, 2025, my daughter appeared frustrated when she asked me, “What day is it today? You don’t even know. It’s Women’s Day!” Of course, I knew exactly what “day” it was, but I responded, “I don’t celebrate a day instituted by murderous communists.” My answer, though abrupt, was intended to spark a…
Pope Francis sent a message February 28 to participants in a course at Rome’s Anselmianum for bishops’ masters of ceremony. The message was one of those usual ones dispatched for an event of which the Holy See somehow wants to take note, either because it likes the idea or somebody involved had a friend in…
When it comes to Supreme Court cases, there’s a tendency among conservative Christians to make a mountain out of a molehill. But most of the time, a molehill is just a molehill, and it’s important to treat it as such. One such mountain-seeming molehill is a new case being petitioned before the U.S. Supreme Court…
Several weeks ago, LifeSiteNews kindly published my article titled “Francis Has Given Us Two Keys for Understanding His Pontificate.” My principal goal in that brief article was to caution the voices of those who have seemingly reached the definite conclusion that, due to heresy, the Apostolic See is vacant. Unfortunately, a number of individuals misunderstood…
With the “Gesima”, pre-Lent Sundays we added a layer of context to our contexts: Roman Station churches. Each day of Lent has, by millennial tradition, an assigned church in Rome. On weekdays, people gathered at a nearby “collect” church and then processed singing penitential litanies and hymns to the “stopping” church, or “statio” where the…
In a groundbreaking interview, Bishop Rolando Alvarez attested to the power of prayer which sustained him and gave him hope, during the year he spent in a Nicaraguan jail for criticizing the regime’s abuses of human rights and religious persecution. “I always thought and believed in my freedom,” said Bishop Alvarez, speaking to EWTN last…
