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Christmas Is God Brought Near – Religion & Liberty Online
A perennial theme of modern holiday classics, from the ridiculous Jingle All the Way to the sublime A Charlie Brown Christmas, is the conspicuous absence of the Christmas spirit during Christmas season. In each case, the Christmas spirit is…
Pope Leo issues Apostolic Letter on priestly formation, fraternity, and synodality
Almudena Martínez-Bordiú, ACI Prensa/CNA Wednesday, December 24, 2025 Leo XIV calls for renewed priestly formation, stronger priestly fraternity, and a more missionary focus in pastoral ministry in an apostolic letter released by the Vatican on…
Cardinal Müller is right about the Latin Mass
Speaking in a recent interview with Michael Haynes of Pelican +, the former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith said that current approaches had deepened division within the Church rather than healed it. The danger of the…
Nigeria welcomes 130 schoolchildren and teachers released after mass abduction
Nigerians on Monday got their first look at 130 children and teachers released after being seized in one of the largest mass abductions in the country’s history. Some of the children appeared to be malnourished or in shock as they arrived at a…
Christ at the center: How tradition anchors the development of doctrine
Larry Chapp, National Catholic Register Wednesday, December 24, 2025 In debates about Church tradition, there’s a false dialectic between a runaway progressivism that treats tradition like a Rorschach inkblot onto which one can project any…
That He Will Come Again
The road to Catholicism is not necessarily straight or smooth, and it may have been wiped out, for instance, by a mountain avalanche just when it was coming into view. In my case, even where there were no memorable avalanches, it took me half a…
University Writing Center Rejected Proper English, Calling It “Linguistic White Supremacy”
Lamaip/iStock/Getty Images Plus There was a time when being a white supremacist meant something (for starters, that you were one in a million). Today, though, it appears that anyone can be a white supremacist. Why, all journalist Larry…
Top Democrats in Columbus, Ohio, Warn Illegal Aliens That ICE Is in Town
Shannon Hardin/FacebookColumbus City Council President Shannon Hardin (at podium) The far-left Democrats who run Columbus, Ohio, are attempting to protect illegal aliens from arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.Mayor Andrew…
California Schools May Not Hide Students’ ‘Gender Identity’ From Parents
A U.S. District Court affirmed parents’ fundamental constitutional rights and blocked California schools from hiding information about a child’s “gender identity” from them. Judge Roger T. Benitez’ decision also affirmed the religious liberty…
ICE Arrests More Than 100 Illegal Alien Truck Drivers in California
vitpho/iStock/Getty Images Plus Yet again, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested 101 illegal-alien truck drivers, a haul that brought the number of illegals stopped from possibly killing American motorists to more than…