When one is at odds with Church teaching, dissenters of any stripe usually have an excuse for rejecting it. They’re quick to cite Bible vers...

Introduction The saints and the philosophers made a distinction between being ignorant and being arrogantly ignorant. The former involved no...

In writing my articles comparing the Catholics who attack Pope Francis with the founders of Protestantism and anti-Catholics, I inevitably g...

There are, unfortunately, Catholics who think that defending Pope Francis involves tearing down his predecessors. What Pope Francis does is ...

B enedict XVI’s spokesman, Archbishop  Georg Gänswein,   issued a  statement  at the request of the Pope emeritus asking that the book not i...

People are making a big to-do about the book coming out by Benedict XVI and Cardinal Sarah. It’s being portrayed as these two men “opposing”...

One tendency many American Catholics have is to argue that “The Church should stay out of politics and focus on saving souls.” Invariably, w...