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The open border and uncontrolled influx of millions of people have devastating consequences. It is a true crisis. Over the last two-and-a-half years, over 7 million illegal immigrants have entered the United States. That number does not include those who escaped detection and are not in any official counts. By the end of 2024, it…

We are now in the second full week of the Synod on Synodality. If you are like me, perhaps you have felt a strong inclination to follow the activities of the Synod closely. In fact, at one point last week I was in Eucharistic adoration and thought, “I should read about exactly what is said…

So universal has the recommendation to attend marriage counseling become that some people even assert that every married couple should be seeing a therapist. It is worth reminding ourselves that attending couple’s counseling and individual therapy is not a necessary condition for the reception of divine grace in the sacrament of marriage. For some, therapy…

We see that, at the Synod, the topic of women’s ordination has come up, as if the rest of the Christian world that has gone along with this innovation—and in the teeth of clear New Testament instruction—has not been pitching itself into deeper and more accelerated decline, and as if the contemporary Church has had…

On October 4, Pope Francis released apostolic exhortation Laudate Deum (Praise God) as a sequel to the 2015 encyclical letter Laudato Si’ (Praise be to you, my Lord). The publication coincides with the commencement of the 2023 Synod on Synodality meetings in Rome. My professional background on the international level over the past twenty-seven years…

Being the soul of good cheer that I am, the very last thing I want to do is send out distress signals, particularly about a Church I dearly love but increasingly fear may be in danger of losing her soul. I say that because it looks as if a certain hurricane from Hell is coming…