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April 2025

April 15, 2025

Bad Theology Causes Church Decline

Christopher D. Raymond looks at the recent data about the decline in church affiliation and...

July 2021

July 28, 2021

“The Church Must Keep Up with the Times”

A Mel Brooks joke, the Catholic controversy over the Latin Mass, the worship wars, the...

September 2018

September 12, 2018

What Percentage of Catholic Priests Have Been Abusive?

How extensive is the problem of sexual abuse of minors by Catholic priests? Cases have...

August 2018

August 17, 2018

Grand Jury Accuses 301 Priests of Child Sexual Abuse

A grand jury in Pittsburgh investigating just six Pennsylvania dioceses accused 301 Roman Catholic priests...

July 2018

July 26, 2018

Saint G. K. Chesterton?

G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was a truly great Christian author. He was a Christian apologist who...

June 2018

June 27, 2018

“Baptism Violates the Baby’s Rights” and More from Once-Catholic Ireland

Ireland was once one of the world's most Catholic countries, but now that the nation...

September 2017

September 26, 2017

Conservatives formally accuse Pope of heresy–including Lutheranism!

Sixty-two conservative Catholic theologians, priests, and academics have served Pope Francis with a formal document...

November 2016

November 23, 2016

Confession app

A Scottish diocese has released an app that will help someone in urgent need of confession...

October 2015

October 26, 2015

Catholic synod on family makes few changes

A synod of bishops has been meeting at the Vatican discussing "the family" and possible...

September 2015

September 02, 2015

Pope will allow priests to forgive abortion

Pope Francis will allow priests to forgive the sin of abortion during the upcoming Holy...

August 2015

August 06, 2015

The Pope’s coming accord with evangelicals

Pope Francis believes that the Reformation is over, that the breach with Luther and later...

January 2015

January 29, 2015

Catholic teaching not allowed at Catholic university?

Marquette is a Roman Catholic institution affiliated with the Jesuit order, one member of which...

October 2014

October 20, 2014

Family synod’s final statement is more conservative

The initial statement from the Roman Catholic synod on the family was hailed for its...

October 17, 2014

Vatican pushes back against initial report

There are liberal Catholics and there are conservative Catholics. The latter faction at the Synod...

July 2014

July 15, 2014

Pope says 1 in 50 priests is a pedophile

In another controversial interview, Pope Francis said that Vatican research has found that 2% of...

February 2014

February 06, 2014

UN panel tells Church to change its teachings

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child has issued a statement directing...

November 2013

November 27, 2013

Conservative Lutherans start dialogue with Catholics

Roman Catholics and the Lutheran World Federation made a splash a few years ago when...

March 2013

March 13, 2013

Pope Francis

A new pope has been elected: Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, archbishop of Buenos Aires in...

March 13, 2013

The mother of all lock-ins

They aren't a youth group, but what the cardinals meeting to elect a new pope...

March 11, 2013

Who will get elected pope?

The conclave of 115 cardinals who will elect the pope convenes on Tuesday. They will...

March 07, 2013

New pope must pledge to serve until death?

The cardinals don't seem to approve of Pope Benedict's resignation and reportedly will ask the...

March 04, 2013

Pope resigned to purge “the filth”?

John Cornwell, a recognized Catholic journalist, says that the real reason the pope is resigning...

February 2013

February 28, 2013

There is no pope

Pope Benedict's resignation goes into effect today. So, until the cardinals get together to elect...

February 11, 2013

The pope resigns

The pope has surprised the world by announcing his resignation. From BBC: Pope Benedict XVI...

November 2012

November 13, 2012

Married priests must still be celibate?

Rome has allowed for some married priests, particularly Anglicans who have gone over to Catholicism. ...

March 2012

March 21, 2012

Santorum & Opus Dei

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is often assumed by the media, the general public, his...

February 2012

February 02, 2012

Declaring war on religion

Michael Gerson on the Obama administration's mandate that Roman Catholic institutions, as well as those...

July 2011

July 18, 2011

Lutheranism & the Antichrist

The teaching that got Michele Bachmann into trouble--that the papacy is the antichrist-- and made...

July 18, 2011

Bachmann is no longer a Lutheran

It is now official, I guess. Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann left the Wisconsin Synod shortly...

May 2011

May 27, 2011

Homosexuality & abusing priests

A $2 million study of the priest child abuse scandal, paid for in part by...