A tactic used by some foes of the Pope is discrediting his defenders by calling them Ultramontanist or Ultramontane. The term has had differ...

Have you ever encountered someone who speaks confidently on a subject and offers his opinion as fact—but makes many errors about that subje...

The critics of Pope Francis unrelentingly tell us that he is promoting confusion and error in the Church through either malice or incompeten...

When it comes to hostility or suspicion towards the Church, regardless of what side it comes from, it is rooted in assumptions, not fact. Pe...

Accordingly I went to one who had the reputation of wisdom, and observed him—his name I need not mention; he was a politician whom I select...

Introduction Back in the 1970s, Gilda Radner played a character on Saturday Night Live  called Emily Litella. The premise of her character ...

Introduction I encounter some Catholics who tell me we’ve lost a lot since we stopped using Latin, stopped using ad orientem , stopped usin...

Introduction Some things the Church warns about gets shunted aside in different eras. If we think of them at all, we think of them as somet...

Introduction The Church, over the past two thousand years and including today, has continued her mission of being faithful to Our Lord’s te...

20  You sit and speak against your brother,  slandering your mother’s son.  21  When you do these things should I be silent?  Do you thi...