A Hostile Takeover of the Catholic Church?

A Hostile Takeover of the Catholic Church?

Does the Synod have a sinister purpose? In a recent interview on EWTN’s The World Over, Cardinal Gerhard Muller, the former head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, warned that the Synod on Synodality was engaged in a “hostile takeover of the Church.”...
The Church of Everyone

The Church of Everyone

Why so many Catholics are leaving. Pope Francis recently called for a “Church open to everyone.”  Nothing new here.  The Church has always been open to everyone—including sinners.  The Church has always acknowledged that it is “a Church of sinners.” But...
The Temptation in the Garden

The Temptation in the Garden

The Respect For Marriage Act – Congressional version. While you weren’t watching, 47 Republican members of the House of Representatives joined all the Democrats to pass the Respect for Marriage Act (RFMA). Don’t let the title fool you.  The act has nothing...
The Da Vinci Code Attacked the Wrong Religion

The Da Vinci Code Attacked the Wrong Religion

But it got some things right. The attack on Salman Rushdie reminds us once again of the difference between Islam and other religions.  In response to the publication of The Satanic Verses, the Ayatollah Khomeini issued a death fatwa in 1989 against Rushdie which...
Defense, Diversity, and the China Threat

Defense, Diversity, and the China Threat

How “woke” experiments endanger our Armed Forces. The FBI raid on Donald Trump’s estate has temporarily pushed the China threat out of the headlines.  But, of course, the threat is still there and so is the question of how to respond to it. Teddy Roosevelt said...