Initially, I intended to use this for a Headlines entry, but it’s just too weird to pass up for some commentary and some explanation. With all due apologies to my friend Stephen “Vodkapundit” Green for muscling in on his Florida Man territory, I present to you … the Legend of the Biting Priest and the […]
Initially, I intended to use this for a Headlines entry, but it’s just too weird to pass up for some commentary and some explanation. With all due apologies to my friend Stephen “Vodkapundit” Green for muscling in on his Florida Man territory, I present to you … the Legend of the Biting Priest and the […]
On the Catholic calendar, May 13 is the feast of Our Lady of Fatima. Each year on this day, a million or so people gather to pray at the Fatima shrine in Portugal. While even non-Catholics have heard of Lourdes, few have heard of Fatima. However, its importance in the history of the 20th […]
The Catholic Church is undergoing a transformation in many parts of the United States. Many Catholics, unsettled by the changes wrought by Vatican II 50 years ago and more recent ideologies like “liberation theology,” crave the familiar orthodoxy that Catholics found comfort in for hundreds of years and had largely been abandoned by the […]
Bad news for the mainstream media, it seems — the secularization of the Catholic Church has hit reverse. Or so the Associated Press fulminates in an amusing report about the trend toward catechesis in the American Catholic Church and parishioners who, y’know, actually believe this stuff. No, seriously … that’s the story. The liberal vanguard […]
Since it’s Sunday, we might as well squeeze in a bit more news related to the Catholic Church. Back on April 5, Bishop Robert Gruss invoked the name of President Joe Biden while delivering a lecture at the Cathedral of Mary of the Assumption in Saginaw, Michigan. But the Bishop wasn’t offering any sort of […]
The Vatican has issued a major statement that strongly condemns transgender surgeries and says that “gender ideology” has no place in the Church. “It follows that any sex-change intervention, as a rule, risks threatening the unique dignity the person has received from the moment of conception,” the document, titled “Infinite Dignity,” said. The Church […]
To anyone who has truly paid attention to the Vatican and to Pope Francis in perticular, the message from Dignitas Infinita could not possibly have come as a surprise. And to those who have pushed back hard against the transgender activists and their social panic, it could not have come too soon. Regardless of whatever […]
According to one Catholic bishop who has experienced persecution both from within and without the Church, woke leaders are “threatened by those who stand for the truth and won’t budge.” Joseph Strickland, who was recently removed by the pope from his position as bishop of Tyler, Texas, was a […]
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