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Pope Francis

Popes and Circumstance

I confess (if I may use the word in this context) that I had little regard for the late pope. I took against him, as it were, early in his papacy when I saw his reaction to some ...

Pope Francis in Jerusalem with Jordan's Prince Ghazi

Love Thy Neighbor, Not Thy Invader

As I write these words, the Pope lies gravely ill in hospital, even less capable of breathing than George Floyd once was, and probably every bit as doped up. Perhaps Pope Francis ...

Pope Francis

Can a Pope Change Moral Truth?

That joking retort we heard as children, “Is the pope Catholic?” is starting to look like a serious question. Asked five years ago about a “gay lobby” in ...

Is the Pope Catholic?

Karl Marx was not a Catholic, but Pope Francis is lookin’ more like a Marxist every day. This became clear as a little glass bell to me last week when progressives were ...

Pope Francis

The Price of Papal Popularity

Normally a synod of Catholic bishops does not provide fireworks rivaling the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where Mayor Richard Daley’s boys in blue ran up ...

Vatican Museum

Public-Relations Advice for the Catholic Church

It seemed that only minutes after the College of Cardinals selected Pope Francis as their new pontiff, the popular press was accusing him of enabling the torture of Jesuit priests ...

Pope Francis—Against the West?

“The Faith is Europe. And Europe is the Faith,” wrote Hilaire Belloc after that bloodbath we call World War I. “Either Europe will return to the Faith or she ...

André-Joseph Léonard

Desperately Seeking Conservative Pope

Very soon all eyes will turn to Rome and mainstream media will have dissident "€œCatholics"€ bloviating away on the boob tube. They will be "€œvery very disappointed"€ ...

Pope Benedict XVI

A Godly Man in an Ungodly Age

“To govern the bark of Saint Peter and proclaim the Gospel, both strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months, has deteriorated in me to ...

Pius XII: Sourcing the Slanders

The whole horror of National Socialism is not concentrated in its nationalism, but in the combination of these two sterile and anti-human ideologies. Ironically enough, ...

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