Commentary

Ross Douthat, New York Times Thursday, October 16, 2025 It’s fitting that Leo XIV’s first apostolic exhortation, Dilexi te, is a meditation on Christian obligations to the poor, one effectively written with his immediate predecessor, Pope…

Fresh data from Barna’s State of the Church project show that young men, particularly from Generation Z and the Millennial cohort, are driving a quiet revival of faith in the United States. Since 2019, the proportion of Gen Z men who say they…

Michel Therrien, STL, STD, What We Need Now Wednesday, October 15, 2025 “Classical” Liberalism gave primacy to the individual over the common good in basically all circumstances and endorsed each person’s absolute right to self-determination.…

In a foreword to a new book, The Trojan Horse in the Catholic Church, written by the pseudonymous “Father Enoch”, Cardinal Gerhard Müller, former Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, warns that the synodal process…

The time has come to calmly reflect on the Francis pontificate, and one aspect urgently needing examination is the nature of the internal disunity, discord, and disorder of those years. So often during the Francis years of “revolution” (and even…

St. Pope John Paul II’s first encyclical, Redemptor Hominis, was a Christocentric theological anthropology very near and dear to his heart. And as his full papacy made clear, it was indeed a definite programmatic statement from the new pope…

The world tends not to pay much attention to the persecution of Christians, even though Christians are attacked and repressed in more countries than any other religious group. But sometimes the persecution is so extreme that it gains, at least…

Pope Leo XIV‘s first apostolic exhortation, “Dilexi Te” (“I have loved you”), promulgated yesterday – the feast day of St. John Henry Newman – explores love and charity for the poor. Among the quotes that give a sense of what the document…

I was brought up a Catholic. I remember praying each night with my grandfather, J. R. R. Tolkien, when I would go to stay with him and my grandmother in Bournemouth, and sensing the certainty of his faith. I still have two circular prayer cards,…

Fr. Raymond J. de Souza, National Catholic Register Thursday, October 9, 2025 Recently, The Chosen TV series highlighted how much opposition to Jesus came from the clerical establishment of the day. And every year in September, Catholic clerics…