“Bishop Barron,” I said to a friend earlier, “has fallen off harder than The Simpsons.” One might also say he has jumped the proverbial selachian, like in the (in)famous Happy Days plotline illustrated in the featured image above. The context for this was...
Part 2 of a series examining Fr. Chad Ripperger’s public teachings on women, marriage, and patriarchy — and their consequences. In Part 1 of this series, I examined Fr. Chad Ripperger’s public claims about women in general: that they are uniquely...
Celebrity exorcist Fr. Chad Ripperger has become a prominent and authoritative voice in certain Catholic media circles, captivating large in-person and online audiences with his opinions on topics ranging from demonology to space aliens to Harry Potter. He is something...
Catholicism has always possessed a vivid symbolic imagination. The Church embraces a sacramental worldview, filled with signs and mysteries — miracles, apparitions, relics, saints, and sacred gestures. This imagination can nourish faith, but without guidance it can also slide into...
A deep divide has opened between the Catholic Church’s consistent teaching on immigration and the instincts of many US Catholics shaped more by partisan identity than by the Gospel. Catholic teaching on migration begins with the foundational truths that undergird...
The appointment of Cardinal Grzegorz Ryś as the new Archbishop of Kraków on Wednesday was more than a routine episcopal transition — it is a clear statement about the direction of Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate. Ryś has long stood out...
December 1, 2019, was more than a date on the calendar. For thousands of us in New Jersey, it was the first day we could walk through a courthouse door without being told we were too late. It was the...
BALTIMORE — In a closely contested vote at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) fall plenary assembly in Baltimore on November 11, 2025, Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City was elected as the new president of the USCCB....
Christine Watkins’s 2019 book, The Warning: Testimonies and Prophecies of the Illumination of Conscience, a bestseller on Amazon for years, predicts a future global event — a time-stopping “illumination of conscience” — during which every person on earth will momentarily see...
It is no secret that the Catholic Church has faced mounting tension over its liturgical life in recent years. Since the publication of Traditionis Custodes (TC) in 2021, which restricted celebrations of the 1962 Roman Missal, many Catholics attached to...
It is well known that fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Still, if St. Paul didn’t mind “speaking like a fool,” who am I to hesitate to follow in his footsteps? Alright, here goes. It is no secret...
By Pope Leo XIV’s own account, Dilexi Te, his first apostolic exhortation (and first major papal document), is a text that “Pope Francis was preparing in the last months of his life,” to which Leo is “adding some reflections” (Dilexi...
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