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Why does the Vatican tolerate Communist China’s state-appointed Catholic bishops while cracking down on the SSPX and the Traditional Latin Mass? Michael Matt examines the growing double standard and the disturbing ramifications for faithful Catholics.
France was once known as the Eldest Daughter of the Church. Now it has legalized euthanasia. From the bloodshed of the French Revolution to today's culture of “death with dignity,” what happens when a civilization cuts itself loose from God?
The Catholic response to the Francis pontificate cannot stop at cataloguing its errors. Catholics must learn how to recognize, resist, and ultimately defeat the errors that made the crisis possible.
In his first major statement on the July 1 Écône consecrations, Bishop Athanasius Schneider reaches back to the Arian crisis and the example of St. Athanasius. He argues that the SSPX faced a tragic choice between canonical recognition and preserving what it sees as the unambiguous integrity of Catholic Faith and liturgy—and suggests that if Rome took the SSPX’s concerns seriously, it could mark…
What if love is not primarily about how someone makes us feel, but about whether we are willing to give ourselves for their good? Peter Kreeft’s reflections after the death of his wife of 63 years offer a profound answer.
For years, the Vatican’s investigation into Medjugorje remained shrouded in secrecy. Now, the verdict of the Ruini Commission has been disclosed: A two-thirds majority of the voters rejected the supernatural character of the apparitions, so why did the Church move toward pastoral acceptance rather than a definitive judgment? This is ultimately about discernment, obedience, Tradition... and the…
Christ told His disciples to watch for the signs of the end—so Catholics have a duty to contemplate the Apocalypse, the great apostasy, the Antichrist, and the “mystery of iniquity.” But do we? Perhapse the Church’s neglect of these subjects is itself a symptom of the unprecedented crisis we are living through.
What if the things we call “failures” are actually among the greatest instruments God uses to sanctify us? Here's an even crazier thought: Even Our Lord’s earthly ministry appeared to end in failure by worldly standards. Yet Christ measures our lives by fidelity to His Father’s will. If we want to become saints, we must learn to do the same.
From Francis' Traditionis Custodes to Leo XIV's SSPX excommunications, two successive pontificates have turned the Church's fiercest campaign not against secular enemies, but against Traditional Catholics themselves. Is this a pastoral correction, or an unprecedented war against the faithful?
"Spiritual AIDS." That was the phrase an SSPX priest used over twenty years ago to describe the crisis in the Catholic Church. Too strong? Well, after Francis, Fiducia Supplicans, Synodality, and Leo XIV's assault on Tradition... can anyone still say the diagnosis was wrong?
