Patheos

One of the major problems in the church is that we are still bound by a ridiculous clericalism in which "Father knows best" and "Father does everything." I'm done with that.

St Michael This is my favorite time of the year. Not only is the beginning of Autumn the most beautiful season, but I love this ten days in the church calendar: St Michael, St Jerome, St Therese, St Francis, St Faustina, Our Lady of the Rosary. Overdose of the Holy Ghost. Now to St Michael: [...]

Hugh Hefner Hugh Hefner, the founder of Playboy magazine is dead. The Catholic Church teaches that at the moment of death the eternal destiny of each soul is determined. You go up or you go down. Hugh Hefner led a life that was not only sexually self indulgent, but it objectified women, glamorized sin [...]

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.

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 [...]

Both sides came out guns a-blazin' about Fr. James Martin's rather slight and sentimental book about being friendly to gay people.