On September 13, 2024, during his historic apostolic visit to Southeast Asia and Oceania, Pope Francis made headlines with a statement: “All religions are paths to God.” This remark, made during an interreligious meeting in Singapore, quickly sparked controversy, with critics accusing the Holy Father of promoting heresy and religious indifferentism. Did Francis...
The by turns troubling, saddening, and hilarious saga of the Arlington, Texas Carmel—Black Narcissus on the range—has taken a new turn. The Carmelites, after a long canonical and civil legal battle against Fort Worth Bishop Michael Olson, have reportedly affiliated with the irregular group the Society of St. Pius X. Bishop Olson has...
Father Chad Ripperger, perhaps the world’s most famous living exorcist following the 2016 death of Father Gabriel Amorth, has been in high demand in certain Catholic circles in recent years. He has made regular appearances on far-right Catholic YouTube shows and podcasts, granting interviews to reactionary public figures including Taylor Marshall and his...
Some in the online community have expressed confusion over the claim made by Pope Francis in Singapore that, among the religions, there are many paths to God. I have seen his statements dissected, debated, defamed, defended, emended, parsed and parodied, lauded and condemned. Yet, after years of study of the writings of the popes and the...
In this episode of Third Space, Angela Sealana and I have a conversation about what it means to live abundantly as a Catholic today. More specifically, we talk about what hope looks like when it’s not misused to bypass lament, suffering, and injustice. Listen to the episode here: https://www.catholicthirdspace.com/p/2-angela-sealana-the-abundant-life Creator of The Inspired...
Last year, in an email exchange, Dawn Eden Goldstein, who was writing her own articles on female deacons, encouraged me to follow my search into what a woman is. This series is a beginning of that search. Thank you for your encouragement, Dawn, and may you find in my articles no reason to...
For the first time in almost a year, Pope Francis held a press conference aboard the papal airplane this past Friday. During the conference, he was asked to offer guidance to United States voters in the upcoming presidential election as they are “faced with a candidate who supports ending a pregnancy and another...
We know that, unfortunately, sometimes Christians do not spread the fragrance of Christ, but the bad odour of their own sin. And let us never forget: sin distances us from Jesus, sin makes us become bad oil. And the devil – let us not forget this – the devil usually enters via the...
This morning, Vanity Fair published a provocative and insightful article by Kathryn Joyce that delves deep into a growing trend among certain factions of American Catholicism: the embrace and celebration of high-profile right-wing converts to the faith. Joyce explores how figures like Candace Owens, JD Vance, and even potentially Jordan Peterson are becoming...
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. —Psalms 23:4 In 2013, the Pew Research Center found that the average lesbian, gay, or bisexual American first began to sense that they might be different from their straight peers at...
The sacrifice of our patriarch Abraham. Note that Abraham is called our patriarch, our ancestor. Antisemitism is incompatible with the thought and the sublime reality expressed in this text. It is alien to us, a movement in which we Christians can have no part. The promise was made to Abraham and to his...
The Catholic Church firmly teaches that the acknowledgement and protection of human dignity is an absolutely central part of our faith. So much so, that a new and highly authoritative Vatican document has recently been published to encourage Catholics, and all people of goodwill, to better understand just what human dignity is, and...
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