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Author: Mike Lewis

The Godfather of Reactionary Priests

Today’s lineup of outspoken reactionary US Catholics priests with extremist, conspiratorial, and inflammatory messages (examples include Frs. Altman, Nix, Heilman, Pavone, Zuhlsdorf, Murray, Ripperger, Msgr. George Rutler, and Bishop Joseph Strickland), as well as their even more bombastic lay counterparts...

What happened to Jim Caviezel?

Where Peter Is · What Happened To Jim Caviezel? I know it’s been a while since we’ve done a podcast, but we hope it’s been worth the wait. Recently, I got together with Jeannie Gaffigan and David Lafferty to talk...

Victory is near

A reflection on the readings for Sunday, November 14, 2021 — The Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time [Editor’s note: due to changes in schedule for our Sunday reflection contributors, we were left without an reflection today. For that reason, we’re sharing the...

A dose of reality from Cardinal Cupich

As we highlighted on this site on Tuesday, Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago wrote an article entitled “The Gift of Traditionis Custodes” for the PrayTell blog, in which he explained the reasoning behind Pope Francis’s decision over the summer to...

The story behind the viral “church brawl” video

[Update 10/27/2021, 10:01 a.m. EDT: The Archdiocese of Seattle replied to our request for comment with a letter from Fr. Brunel. Earlier updates include the reporting from Seattle CBS affiliate KIRO-7. The story has been updated to reflect the latest developments.] Yesterday,...

Feast of Saint John Paul II

Today is the feast of Pope St. John Paul II, who was pope from 1978 until his death in 2005. As the pope who served at the precipice of the third millennium and who declared the Jubilee year in 2000,...

A Catholic moral panic, two years on

Today marks exactly two years since a young Austrian convert to the Catholic faith, Alexander Tschugguel, stole five wooden figures of pregnant indigenous women from the Amazon from Santa Maria in Traspontina church in Rome in the early morning hours....