The State of the Faith in Europe and Easter Hope It is almost impossible not to find a dire symbolism in the burning of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on the first day of Holy Week, the day after – as Ross Douthat points out – Catholics worldwide listened to a Gospel in which St. . . . Read more
Looking to Cardinal Sarah Recently I travelled to Phoenix in order to lead a mission. When I arrived at the airport, I was stunned to see a group of people holding signs welcoming home a child who had either just undergone a “sex change” or who was travelling to Phoenix for the procedure. A child! . . . Read more
To claim the right to abortion, infanticide and euthanasia, and to recognize that right in law, means to attribute to human freedom a perverse and evil significance: that of an absolute power over others and against others. This is the death of true freedom: “Truly, truly, I say to you, every one who commits sin . . . Read more
Wake Up to the Threat A so-called “human rights tribunal” in Canada has just ruled that a Christian activist must pay $55,000 to a provincial politician because he referred to this politician as a “biological male” in a political pamphlet. The politician in question, Morgane Oger (born Ronan Oger), is a biological male. However, he . . . Read more
The Humanity of the Unborn Child and God’s Infinite Mercy “What she saw changed everything.” That’s the tagline for the new movie Unplanned, which tells the true story about former Planned Parenthood abortion clinic director Abby Johnson. The movie is being released in theaters this Friday – March 29. Fittingly, the release comes the same . . . Read more
“What is urgently called for,” wrote Pope St. John Paul II in the great pro-life encyclical Evangelium Vitae, “is a general mobilization of consciences and a united ethical effort to activate a great campaign in support of life.” (EV, ¶95) The vast and multifarious pro-life movement, with its ever-expanding networks of crisis pregnancy centers, mobile ultrasound units, . . . Read more
Preying Upon the Young Disturbing new data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) highlight the grave dangers that the transgender ideology poses to children. A new survey of 131,901 public school students has found that nearly 2 percent of students in grades 9-12 identify as “transgender.” That translates into a staggering number of . . . Read more
Come to Me All Who Are Weary “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God still, and trust in me.” — John 14:1 Holy Mother Church is in the midst of a dark night. Scarcely a day goes by where I do not read a news article about the Church and Her ministers . . . Read more
The Church Must Not Be Afraid “A good shepherd, a pastor after God’s heart, is the greatest treasure which the good Lord can grant to a parish, and one of the most precious gifts of divine mercy.” — St. John Vianney (The Curé of Ars) In the most profound way possible, the ordination of a . . . Read more
Abortion Survivors and Late-Term Abortions The pro-abortion movement desperately wants everybody to stop talking about two things: late-term abortions and abortion survivors. If you listened to the pro-abortion talking points, you’d think that the first (late-term abortions) only ever take place for the rarest, gravest, and most life-threatening reasons, and that the second (abortion survivors) . . . Read more
