Commentary
Why Christ will not allow His Church to ordain women
Popes from John Paul II to Francis have made clear that the Church cannot ordain women – yet some persist in revisiting what is already settled teaching. Among those who reject the teaching of Pope John Paul, despite its lofty authoritative…
The strange death of Protestantism
Richard Rex, Catholic Herald Thursday, October 16, 2025 The pivotal doctrine of Protestantism, which arose in the 16th century, was encapsulated in the easy and elegant slogan: justification by faith alone. The other great pillar of original…
Pope Leo needs to be more specific
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…
Young men are driving Christian revival in the United States
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…
A clash of liberalisms – The Catholic Thing
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.…
Cardinal Müller: Synod on Synodality is a ‘secular takeover’
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…
Exposing the lie that upholding tradition and sound doctrine causes division and disunity
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…
Reflections on “Dilexi Te”, the first magisterial document of Leo XIV’s papacy
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…
At last, the world is noticing the persecution of Christians
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…
12 quotes from “Dilexi te”
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…