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Why Doesn’t the Pope Answer His Critics?

This week’s big Catholic news is the release of a “filial correction” of Pope Francis by a group of theologians and church laymen. Edward Pentin reports on it here: This is the sixth major initiative in which both clergy and laity have expressed concerns about the Pope’s teaching, particularly emanating from Amoris Laetitia. Despite the […]

Sex, Politics and Religion

  In England they say there are three subjects one should not bring up in polite conversation: sex, religion and politics. But of course, those are the three subjects that are most fascinating, and when the three are thrown together sparks inevitably fly. This is why media monsters like Piers Morgan (who professes to be […]

Fr Harvey Nicolaitan SJ on Media Matters

Guest blogger Fr Harvey Nicolaitan SJ, is a master of modern media. With a degree in Communications, he is a well known author and guest on reality TV shows, Fr Nicolaitan is the author of My Little Rainbow Bridge- a children’s story about being kind to trolls. He has been invited to speak at many of our nation’s […]

A Dialogue on Dialogue

I thought the best way to think about a dialogue was to write a dialogue about dialogue. So here is a dialogue between George, who thinks dialogue is wonderful and Betty who is dubious.   George: Dialogue must be a good thing. Betty: Why is that? G: It helps two people who disagree to come […]

St. Matthew and Worldly Wealth

Nobody really likes tax collectors, but did you know why they were so despised in Jesus' time?

St Matthew and Worldly Wealth

So nobody really likes tax collectors, but did you know why they were so despised in Jesus’ time? Its because of the way the Romans administered the tax collection system. They hired a local person (who knew who was really wealthy and who was not) and gave the guy a couple of soldiers and told him the […]

McElroy and Chaput on Chastity

This week we have an American bishop and Archbishop writing articles touching on the question of chastity. In this article for London’s Catholic Herald Archbishop Chaput comments that faithful Christians are the West’s “new dissidents.” In the midst of writing about the openly anti-Catholic attack on federal judge nominee Amy Coney Barrett by Dianne Feinstein, […]

Introducing Fr Harvey Nicolaitan SJ

Guest blogger Fr Harvey Nicolaitan SJ, is a master of modern media. With a degree in Communications, he is a well known author and guest on reality TV shows, Fr Nicolaitan has been invited to speak at many of our nation’s greatest Catholic intellectual powerhouses. A member of the Vatican Confectory for International Dissimulation, he advises bishops on effective communication. Fr […]

Catholics Come Out Guns a Blazin’

Both sides came out guns a-blazin' about Fr. James Martin's rather slight and sentimental book about being friendly to gay people.

Catholics Come Out Guns A Blazin’

I watched a forgettable film the other evening called Tombstone. It was a predictable Western with Wyatt Earp, his brothers and Doc Holliday shooting up the OK Corral. It made me think of this week’s shoot out between Fr Martin and his pals and some conservative commentators. Both sides came out guns a-blazin’ about Fr Martin’s rather slight and sentimental book […]