by William Kilpatrick | Dec 5, 2022
Priests like Fr. Backhaus are no longer rare exceptions in the Church. Just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse in the Catholic Church, Father Hermann Backhaus, a priest of the Diocese of Münster, Germany, proves you wrong. In a recent interview, Backhaus...
by William Kilpatrick | Nov 29, 2022
Archbishop Vigano’s critique of Francis “A non-Catholic Pope”? It sounds like a contradiction in terms. But those are the words used to describe Pope Francis by Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, the former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States. In...
by William Kilpatrick | Nov 22, 2022
What happens next? In “Francis Forgives Everyone,” I suggested that the main thrust of the Francis papacy is to de-emphasize sin. But if Francis wants to forgive everyone, he’d better hurry up before some European bishops beat him to the punch. Just recently, the...
by William Kilpatrick | Nov 15, 2022
A significant omission in an otherwise good book. The New Apologetics is a collection of 41 essays by noted Catholic apologists. It’s a valuable book for those who are interested in spreading the Christian faith in a time of secularism and relativism, as well as for...
by William Kilpatrick | Nov 10, 2022
Irish of a traditional bent need not apply. Most practicing Catholics will have noticed by now that the Church under Francis has changed. And many are not happy with the changes. For example, Andrea Cionci, author of a new book which questions the validity of...
