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Division among the Bishops, or a Blessing in Disguise?

Russell Shaw and Stephen White consider the consequences of a likely and lively debate among the bishops about abortion and Communion.

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How to Red-Pill a Bishop

“If you think that your priests and bishops are not saints, then be one for them.” — Robert Cardinal Sarah I know that many of our readers were irate over USCCB president Archbishop José Gomez’s statement on the 2020 election. Many of you were angry that he referred to Joe Biden as the second Catholic […]

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Our Cyrus Has Come

“Enemy-occupied territory: that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us to take part in a great campaign of sabotage.” — C. S. Lewis “A Christian has only to be in order to change the world, for […]

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Wilton Gregory Is the Deep Church

No one should be surprised by the recent revelation that Pope Francis believes that civil unions between same-sex couples ought to be legal. Just as no one should be surprised by the promotion of Wilton Gregory—Archbishop of Washington, D.C., oligarch, and political activist—to the College of Cardinal this past Sunday. The two are intimately connected, […]

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Where Deep State Meets Deep Church

“I am not the Catholic candidate for president,” John F. Kennedy famously declared. (At least he was honest.) Throughout the 1960 election, JFK struggled to overcome the old Know-Nothing myth that, were the United States to put an Irish Catholic in the White House, he would have a direct telephone line to the Holy See. […]

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Shepherds or Sheepdogs?

The Vatican’s Secretariat of State is embroiled in scandal after one of their dubious $100 million real estate deals (in London!) went south. Did Cardinal Parolin know about his underlings’ questionable business ethics? Did Pope Francis? Is the mafia involved? And did these shady dealers frame Cardinal Pell when he found them out? Meanwhile, bishops […]

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God Bless Our Cops

“When men follow justice, the whole city blooms, the earth bears rich harvests, and children and flocks increase, but to the unjust all nature is hostile, the people waste away from famine and pestilence, and a single man’s sin may bring ruin on a whole city.” — Hesiod From Rome to Washington, the Successors to […]

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Archbishop Gregory vs. President Trump

Archbishop Wilton Gregory of Washington says it is “baffling and reprehensible” that President Donald J. Trump was allowed to visit the Saint John Paul II National Shrine amidst nationwide anti-police demonstrations. Meanwhile, D.C.’s Episcopalians are furious that Park Police removed protesters from the vicinity of St. John’s Church—less than 24 hours after the mob lit […]

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God or the Mob?

“The counter-revolution will not be a contrary revolution, but the contrary of revolution.” — Joseph de Maistre Should Catholics be excommunicated for holding views on race which are found to be insufficiently woke? The Jesuits seem to think so. In a June 1 editorial, America magazine urged Catholics to “hunger for [social] justice like we […]

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Don’t Sanitize McCarrick’s Legacy

Stephen P. White: Remembering our sins – especially those of our shepherds – is also an important reminder to pray fervently for the salvation of all souls.

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