….. James Altman invites his cult of personality into full-blown schism with this bull of excommunication against the Pope: The theological claims are absurd, of course. And if you want
Here’s a good piece by Pedro Gabriel on the formative influences of South American Catholic faith that have contributed to Francis’ encouragement of synodality in governing the Church. It is
Over at the National Catholic Reporter, my friend Brian Fraga chronicles the Holy Father’s various right wing enemies and the peculiar way in which he seems to play Roadrunner to
Here’s a taste of a piece I wrote for St. Anthony Messenger in March: On May 11, 2019, a man you have probably never heard of, Konrad Krajewski, climbed down
Then whatever religion you imagine you believe, it is not the Catholic faith. I don’t have a lot of time to write today, so I just thought I would leave
Here is another curious example of a related phenomenon: the habit of vice-signaling to confederates (in more senses than one) while pretending to deny one is saying exactly what everybody
Long ago, before conservative American Catholics devolved, for the most part, into a sect bent on attacking the Magisterium, creating schism from the Holy Father, and turning the Church in
Pope Francis, Fake News, and Post-Truth Journalism Post-truth journalism is not just about narratives for financial profit; it can also be for political or ideological ends. Whole media organizations can
One of the curious things about the function of the Magisterium is that, so far from running around excommunicating people as the popular notion goes or “cracking down” on everything
The most popular moral heresy in the world is Consequentialism: the belief that the ends justify the means. It is has always been beloved by fallen human beings and is,
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