Commentary
Sacraments of initiation or affirmation?
Anthony R. Lusvardi, S.J., First Things Friday, November 21, 2025 The sacrament of confirmation has not generally been a pressing concern to the editors of People magazine. Last week, however, this often neglected and misunderstood sacrament…
Living the faith is simple – but hard
Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture Thursday, November 20, 2025 Living out the Catholic faith is simple. Not easy (far from it) but simple, as in uncomplicated. Our Lord, challenged to name the greatest of God’s commandments, replied: “You shall love…
Open letter defends TLM against Cardinal Cupich’s ‘spectacle’ claim
Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register Thursday, November 20, 2025 An Italian expert liturgist has written an open letter to Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago, criticizing the cardinal’s recent assertions, published by the Vatican’s news…
Is the Vatican retreating on the Latin Mass ban?
Nick Hallett, European Conservative Wednesday, November 19, 2025 The Bishops of England and Wales have apparently been told, via the pope’s own representative in Britain, that their requests for permission to celebrate the Old Rite in parish…
Casual sex, but no casual dating or courtship
Students report an alarming fact. They live in an environment, they say, in which there is casual sex, but no casual dating. Why would that be? One reason there might be so little casual dating is because of the widespread presumption that a…
No kings?
Sir Winston Churchill famously acknowledged that democracy “is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” Mr. Warren writes: “Popular Democracies” exterminated, together…
U.S. Bishops’ immigration ‘Special Message’ provides a signal moment
Fr. Raymond J. de Souza, National Catholic Register Tuesday, November 18, 2025 Pope Leo XIV himself called for an effective and unified voice on immigration from the US bishops; in Baltimore, they delivered just that. Coming 10 months into the…
Romania’s new Orthodox mega-cathedral means civilizational rebirth is possible
Rafael Pinto Borges, European Conservative Monday, November 17, 2025 The vast People’s Salvation Cathedral rising over Bucharest was inaugurated by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Patriarch Daniel of Romania on October 25th. It is now the…
The collapse of trans identity
Jonathon Van Maren, First Things Monday, November 17, 2025 After a decade of record numbers showing young people identifying somewhere on the LGBTQ spectrum (in 2023, the Centers for Disease Control reported that around a quarter of high school…
When death seems random and God seems silent, only the Cross of Christ reveals why
Larry Chapp, National Catholic Register Friday, November 14, 2025 Our culture does not like to focus on death. Lacking a substantively real faith in God, the modern world vacillates between a nihilistic atheism that views death as annihilation…