This week's big Catholic news is the release of a "filial correction" of Pope Francis by a group of theologians and church laymen. Edward Pentin reports on it here: This is the sixth major initiative in which both clergy and laity have expressed concerns about the Pope's teaching, particularly emanating from Amoris Laetitia. Despite the repeated [...]
Why media monsters like Piers Morgan (who professes to be a Catholic) enjoys stirring the pot whenever he gets the chance.
Guest blogger Fr Harvey Nicolaitan SJ, is a master of modern media. With a degree in Communications, he is a well known author and guest on reality TV shows, Fr Nicolaitan is the author of My Little Rainbow Bridge- a children's story about being kind to trolls. He has been invited to speak at many of our nation’s greatest Catholic intellectual [...]
What's the point of dialogue?
Nobody really likes tax collectors, but did you know why they were so despised in Jesus' time?
Archbishop Chaput This week we have an American bishop and Archbishop writing articles touching on the question of chastity. In this article for London's Catholic Herald Archbishop Chaput comments that faithful Christians are the West's "new dissidents." In the midst of writing about the openly anti-Catholic attack on federal judge nominee Amy Coney Barrett [...]
Guest blogger Fr Harvey Nicolaitan SJ, is a master of modern media. With a degree in Communications, he is a well known author and guest on reality TV shows, Fr Nicolaitan has been invited to speak at many of our nation's greatest Catholic intellectual powerhouses. A member of the Vatican Confectory for International Dissimulation, he advises bishops on effective communication. Fr Nicolaitan is [...]
Both sides came out guns a-blazin' about Fr. James Martin's rather slight and sentimental book about being friendly to gay people.
Why Pope Francis may be on the way to being a lame duck pope.
The Wood of the Suicides In Dante's Inferno, the violent are confined in the seventh circle. This circle has three rings: the violent against one's neighbor, the violent against one's self and the violent against God, nature and art. In the second ring the suicides are imprisoned in trees. They have lost their bodily form because [...]