Nearly six months after publicly criticizing Cardinal Blase Cupich’s plan to give a “lifetime achievement” award to pro-abortion-rights Senator Dick Durbin, a long-serving lay member of the Catholic Conference of Illinois (CCI) board of…
In an effort to understand Hieronymus Bosch, I have been reading about the “movers and shakers” who first conceived of our modern world. Bosch presents the fantasies of these heretics, I think, without being entirely a heretic himself. It is…
A Loyola University Chicago law professor and long-time board member of the Catholic Conference of Illinois (CCI) is being involuntarily removed from his position. The removal is due to his public criticism of Cardinal Blase Cupich’s plan last…
Last week, the Vatican Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith released a disappointing synodal study group’s final report on “The Participation of Women in the Life and Leadership of the Church” that focused almost entirely on the 20th century.…
Augustine admits in Confessions that when he was young, he did not like the Scriptures; he found the language ugly and uninspiring. He preferred Cicero and Virgil. Worse yet, some things in the Scriptures caused him to think Christianity was…
The 250,000 Catholics who serve in the U.S. military might like a word with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. His pastor, Doug Wilson, founder of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, and whom Hegseth invited to speak at the Pentagon,…
Almost one year in, Pope Leo’s vision for his pontificate is still coming into focus. But there are a few key characteristics that are worth noting. First, and most obviously, Leo is not Francis II. For much of Francis’s pontificate, the air…
The Catholic bishops of Scotland strongly condemned the Scottish Parliament’s rejection of conscience protections in a controversial bill that would legalize assisted suicide. The Bishops’ Conference of Scotland expressed deep disappointment…
Friedrich Nietzsche is notorious for his theory of the Übermensch, the superior man who rises above the constraints of morality and mediocrity. But his theory of the “last man” has proven to be far more prophetic – and relevant. A kind of…
The New York Times reported the words, but the Wall Street Journal didn’t. When Bam Adebayo, two days ago, was asked to describe the moment when he scored 83 points in an NBA game, second only to Wilt Chamberlain’s 100 points, he said, “Man, I…
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