The turning point in a big case happened. I shared the news with a little analysis. Today, Mr. Theodore McCarrick is no longer a cleric: he has no right to celebrate any of the sacraments and cannot present himself as […]
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No More Death Penalty: Pope Francis’s Change to the Catechism
I wrote two pieces on the change to the catechism on the death penalty in rapid succession. I put them here as one. 1. Capital Punishment: Francis & the Tradition Before Him Are Both Right In the past two days, […]
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The Holy Father’s “Our Father” Comments in Context
I just wrote on the “Our Father” controversy over on Catholic Stand. On the evening of December 6th, TV2000, the Italian equivalent of EWTN, aired an interview of Pope Francis where he criticized the Italian translation of the Our Father. He pointed […]
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Müller’s defense of ‘Amoris Laeitia’ reads it in Church tradition
Card. Müller came out strongly in support of reading Amoris Laetitia last week so I summarized it and commented. On Thursday of last week, Cardinal Gerhard Müller continued his defense of an orthodox reading of Amoris Laeitia in the most forceful […]
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Overview of ‘Iuvenescit Ecclesia,’ on the bishops and the movements
I had my first article published on Crux today. Here’s the first lines; read the rest there. Throughout the history of the Church, God has bestowed gifts upon individuals for the benefit of all. Some of these are through the […]
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Key Quotes from Amoris Laetitia: About Every Family Not Just Divorced and Civilly Remarried
News reports focus on a few paragraphs of Francis’s new document, Amoris Laetitia, namely 242-243, 250, and 298-305, yet this is but a small part of the document. Instead, I want to give you a medium-length summary of the whole […]
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