Commentary
5 Ways to Become a Grounded Woman
Carrie Gress, Theology of Home Tuesday, October 21, 2025 “It is hard to find a grounded woman today. I started looking at women with a careful eye over a decade ago while doing research. Tragically, women today have been robbed of the ideals…
Trump’s IVF policy could be worse, but it’s still bad
The entire thrust of the policy is to make something unethical (IVF) more widely practiced. Such a policy is itself unethical. Americans won’t be required to violate their conscience, but our public policy will promote IVF more now than ever…
A New French Abbey: Tradition’s enduring appeal
The Europe that a monk named Raoul Glaber saw with pride at the dawn of the year 1000, covered with “a white mantle of churches,” has entered a dark era of de-Christianization. And yet, there are still communities in France that continue to…
Pope Leo gets a horse
Other donors have already gifted the pope a white motorcycle and an electric car. On Wednesday, Leo XIV received a white horse as a gift. Proton, a purebred Arabian, was given to the Pope by Andrzej Michalski, owner and founder of the Michalski…
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…