Commentary
Why Martin Luther gutted the Bible
Catholics believe that salvation is a gift from God, received through faith and baptism, and lived out through charity and good works. Many Protestants, following Martin Luther, believe it’s enough to simply profess faith in Jesus as Savior.…
Why did God favor France?
Joan of Arc’s story is one of the most extensively documented cases of a miraculous-seeming intervention into secular history, calculated to baffle, fascinate, and even charm like almost nothing else in Western history. If Joan’s…
What to do with unwanted embryos?
The author spoke with Kent J. Lasnoski, founding president of the San Damiano College for the Trades, who co-edited Human Embryo Adoption, vol. 2, Catholic Arguments For and Against for the National Catholic Bioethics Center. Should Catholics…
A force for good: MBA degrees from Catholic schools
Kimberley Heatherington, OSV News Wednesday, August 6, 2025 It’s the most popular graduate degree in the United States: a Master of Business Administration. And there’s no shortage of institutions of higher learning at which to earn one — more…
How Gen Z’s relationship with religion is changing
Colm Flynn, New York Post Wednesday, August 6, 2025 Something is changing in society when it comes to Gen Z and their relationship with religion. Their parents may have drifted from the Church — because of scandals, laziness, shifting…
Red-pilled Catholics – The Catholic Thing
The 1999 movie The Matrix, a cult classic, is famous for its invention of the terms “red pill” and “blue pill”: anyone who takes the red pill can see beyond a simulation to recognize the ugly truth of reality and of humanity’s enslavement. Those…
The Death of Mainline Protestantism
If Ernest Hemingway were to interview American mainline Protestantism in 2025, the conversation would go something like this: “How did you go spiritually bankrupt?” “Two ways. Gradually and then suddenly.” There seems little doubt that we are…
Newman’s Elevation as Doctor of the Church: a gift for our times
Pope Leo XIV’s decision to proclaim St. John Henry Newman the 38th Doctor of the Universal Church will help bring the 19th-century English saint’s teachings to a world in great need of them and at a time when England appears to be at the…
On the relevance and reality of the development of doctrine today
Presently, within the Catholic Church, there is much discussion concerning the development of doctrine. Traditionally, doctrinal development was understood to be an authentic growth in the Church’s understanding and articulation of what had…