While speaking with reporters on the evening of Tuesday, June 16, outside Castel Gandolfo, Pope Leo XIV was asked about the decision of the leadership of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) to consecrate four new bishops without papal approval on July...
For decades, public discourse about Christianity — especially Catholicism — has revolved around sexuality: who people sleep with, who they marry, what they do with their bodies, what is permitted, what is sinful. In the age of social media and...
It is well known that the schismatic Society of Saint Pius X plans to consecrate four bishops on July 1, 2026, in Écône, Switzerland — despite being warned explicitly that to do so would incur excommunication for both those ordained...
A rumor used to travel slowly. Someone would mention something after Mass, at work, or over dinner, and maybe it reached a few people by the end of the week if it was juicy enough. Now it takes one post....
J.R.R. Tolkien’s masterwork The Lord of the Rings has made it into Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical — and the reference reads like a veiled rebuke of Peter Thiel, the billionaire tech investor and Tolkien superfan whose dystopian vision twists...
Pope Leo XIV has recently surprised many not only by saying that he is not afraid of those who flaunt great military and political power. He has also surprised us by offering a critical — and at the same time...
History is repeating itself. On July 1, 2026, the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) intends to consecrate new bishops in Écône, Switzerland, in defiance of Pope Leo XIV. This is the same place where SSPX founder Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre...
For nearly four decades, English-speaking Catholics have quoted the Vatican on a sentence it never actually wrote. I speak here of Section 16 of the 1986 Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual...
Bishop Robert Barron is at it again. Three months after his ill-judged intervention on the Trump administration’s so-called immigration enforcement policies, Barron has come to the defense of the same administration’s war against Iran, a war that Pope Leo XIV...
Much of Pope Leo XIV’s journey to Africa has been overshadowed by a media firestorm over tweets and comments US President Donald Trump made about the pope, and sadly Leo’s message and the people of Algeria, Cameroon, Angola, and Equatorial...
[Editor’s note: The following article was originally published in Spanish in El Heraldo de México on April 13, 2026, and is translated here with the permission of the author. The original can be found at heraldodemexico.com.mx. — ML] Last Saturday,...
In my recent article on the media coverage of the first year of Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate, I examined the letter from Cardinal Parolin to the French bishops, who met in Lourdes last week, and challenged the unlikely narrative put...
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