Francis Tries to Second-guess the Devil
Despite his penchant for theological innovation, Pope Francis seems to hold some fairly traditional beliefs about the devil. Here’s an example from Gaudete et Exsultate: It is precisely the conviction that this malign power is present in our midst that enables us to...
Humanitarian Islam?
“Horrendous violence has engulfed much of the Islamic world, from Central Asia through the Middle East to Africa.” Hmm. Sounds like the ravings of a deluded “Islamophobe.”—the kind of extremist rhetoric one might expect from Robert Spencer, Raymond Ibrahim, or...
The President and the Bishops: What’s Next?
Catholics have never been more confused than now about what they are supposed to believe. The causes of the confusion are not difficult to find: widespread immorality among priests and bishops and even more widespread coverup of same; a pope who affirms traditional...
Bishops Want a Peaceful Transition, but to What?
In the wake of the January 6th Capitol break-in by protestors, and the resulting death of a young woman, numerous politicians have called for divided Americans to “work together,” “overcome our differences,” and “remember what we have in common.” Similar pleas were...
Born Again vs. Bored Again: The Spirit of Christianity and the Spirit of Secularism
One of the perpetual complaints against Christianity is that it is a life-denying, puritanical system. In the Victorian era, poet Algernon Swinburne referred to Christ as the “pale Galilean” from whose breath “the world has grown grey.” In our own time, films such as...
China, Islam, and the Gang that Couldn’t Think Straight
For the benefit of bishops who have difficulty thinking straight. Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, together with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and 27 other House members have signed a letter to Mark Zuckerberg requesting “100 percent proactive detection and...
The Slow Boat to China Accelerates: Catholics Should Take Notice
In early November, Archbishop Jose Gomez, the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, congratulated Joe Biden as “the second United States president to profess the Catholic faith.” The implication seemed to be that Catholics should be...
Raymond Ibrahim reviews “What Catholics Need to Know about Islam”
By Raymond Ibrahim Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. Of the various strands of Christianity, historically, Catholicism was the chief enemy of Islam. It was the popes who called for the crusades; and it was Catholics who...
Should Election Results be Resisted?
Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego recently said that Catholics should be “proud collaborators” with the Biden administration. On the other hand, Archbishop Vigano, the former Papal Nuncio to the U.S., frames the current conflict between Trump and Biden as part of an...
Telling the Whole Truth about Islam: Interview with Professor William Kilpatrick
An interview by Matt Gaspers for Catholic Family News Incomplete Information: A Case in Point At the beginning of his new encyclical Fratelli Tutti (FT), the title of which is based on words of St. Francis of Assisi (“brothers all”),[1] Pope Francis shares, “This...
