Commentary
Would a U.S. war against Venezuela be just?
Edward Feser, Catholic World Report Friday, December 19, 2025 To all appearances, the United States is preparing for war with Venezuela. For months now, American military forces have been blowing up Venezuelan boats said to be carrying drugs.…
The German bishops’ conference, over the cliff
George Weigel, Catholic World Report Thursday, December 18, 2025 On October 30, the German bishops’ conference secretariat announced on the conference website the publication of a text by the bishops’ Commission on Schools and Education,…
I’ll Be Home for Christmas?
A recent essay in the New York Times’ “Modern Love” column was titled “The Case for Ending a Long, Mostly Good Marriage.” Left unspoken is the possibility that most women, if not all, might be happier and more “fulfilled” were they to raise…
The True Islam – The Catholic Thing
Lumen Gentium, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church of Vatican II, states that the Mohammedans “profess their faith as the faith of Abraham, and with us they worship the one, merciful God who will judge men on the last day” (par 16). But when…
When the Vicar of Christ joins the media scrum
Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register Wednesday, December 17, 2025 It has become a new papal convention. Every Tuesday evening, as Pope Leo XIV departs for the Vatican after his now-routine day of rest at Castel Gandolfo, he will stop to…
Hanukkah Light in a Dark World
Mendel Horowitz, First Things Tuesday, December 16, 2025 Before the Hamas war against Israel, the election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City, and yesterday’s shooting attack in Australia, I associated Hanukkah with triumph rather than…
Sanity being restored? Sharp decline in transgender identification
Ryan Burge, Graphs About Religion Tuesday, December 16, 2025 Has there been a noticeable decline in the share of 18–22-year-olds who identify as transgender over the last couple of years? The answer is unequivocal: yes. In 2020, 8.6 percent of…
This British government is anti-British
Frank Haviland, European Conservative Monday, December 15, 2025 “By their deeds shall ye know them.” So reads the Gospel of Matthew, a timeless admonition against the perils of hypocrisy. Nowhere is this warning more appropriate than in the…
Bearing the largest Cross in the world
Kristen Ziccarelli, First Things Monday, December 15, 2025 In recent months, Spain has become an epicenter in the battle over Europe’s diminishing Christian identity. At stake is the fate of the Valle de los Caídos (the Valley of the Fallen)…
Our Lady of this particular place
Fr. Raymond J.de Souza, First Things Friday, December 12, 2025 Marian feasts are among the most popular in the Church. So, it was a bit unusual when the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a “doctrinal note” last month on…