Over the past four years, we’ve had a relentless drumbeat from the anti-Francis Catholics, telling us that this Pope is a “disaster” and tha...

Introduction One of the stranger items I have in my Verbum  library is the address of a Presbyterian minister made during the Civil War. In...

While I don’t particularly like the song, it’s practically mandatory  to show this video in a post like this Introduction One common trend...

Introduction: The Context of the Question In 1850, Blessed John Henry Newman gave a series of lectures to Anglicans of the Oxford Movement ...

19  You give your mouth free rein for evil;  you yoke your tongue to deceit.  20  You sit and speak against your brother,  slandering yo...

There is a rhetorical question out there, derived from the military, which goes: Is this the hill you want to die on?  The meaning of the qu...

(See: Ross Douthat and the Catholic Academy | Aleteia.org  and  To the editor of the New York Times… | Daily Theology ) So, after certain C...

In these times, the most problematic issues involve the open advocating of disobedience to the magisterium. That needs to be opposed of cour...

I can understand the reactions of the current rebellion in the Church—I don’t condone it, but I understand it. There is a dual reaction to a...

Introduction One of the more bizarre behaviors of people who say they support a total separation of Church and State is that they seem eit...

Why did Christ come to this world? Was it to praise the people who followed the rules and condemn those who didn’t? Or was it to save the l...

Pope Benedict XVI has been seeking to return the SSPX to full communion with the Church.  The problem is not with the Pope or the Bishops.  ...