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 the Vatican, Pope Francis responded, “If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge?” As judgment was thought to be part of the papal job ...


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 in Argentina's "€œDirty War"€ and nailing him to a ...

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 will perish.” By 1938, Belloc concluded Christian ...

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"€ when the cry "€œHabemus Papam!"€ is heard and will ...

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 the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity 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, nationalism (unlike patriotism, of which it is the exaggeration and ...


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