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...
Over the past two weeks, the narrative that “Pope Leo is correcting Francis” has emerged with renewed vigor in English-language conservative Catholic media. Unlike the aesthetic differences that were desperately held up as dramatic reversals in the early months of...
In November 2025, Cardinal Christophe Pierre delivered his final address to the US bishops as apostolic nuncio, arguing that the Second Vatican Council remained the “guiding light” of the Church’s path forward. He had been delivering this message for nearly...
[Editor’s note: Peter Thiel — billionaire investor, co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, and a major influence in contemporary technology and politics — has in recent years drawn attention for his public reflections on apocalyptic themes, including the Antichrist and the biblical...
On Thursday, March 5, the Shawn Ryan Show — one of the highest-rated podcasts today and hosted by former Navy SEAL and CIA contractor Shawn Ryan — will release an episode featuring Fr. Chad Ripperger, the traditionalist Catholic priest and exorcist who has built...
“For in fire gold is tested, and the chosen, in the crucible of humiliation” (Sir 2:5). This metaphor is simple: the real and true can withstand the furnace. It also brings to mind another saying made popular by US president...
Update: The SSPX has formally declined the offer of dialogue. Last Wednesday, I published a backgrounder on the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), in which I attempted to lay out why the SSPX’s planned consecration of new bishops this July...
Those sympathetic to the Society of St. Pius X will remind you that the Church has never formally declared the SSPX to be in schism. Arguably, this may be true. But the 1988 episcopal consecrations carried out by Archbishop Marcel...
Pedro Gabriel was recently interviewed by Christine Harrington on the Eternal Life Plan channel for a wide-ranging conversation on the life of the Church today. In the interview, Pedro reflects on several important themes, including the living magisterium, the challenges...
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