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October 2017

October 04, 2017

Fake Site News & Crisis!!!!! Misrepresent Pope Francis on Civil Unions. Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome Vol. XIX.

Wrong information is being given out at Fake Site News. (The credulous call it Life...

November 2016

November 16, 2016

How Many Times Must Amoris Laetitia Be Clarified?

Imean, really, dear reader, maybe I am a fool, but didn't we have a clarification...

September 2016

September 15, 2016

Marriage is Defined by God. To Accept Same-Sex Marriage is Heresy.

To begin, I should state how the Catholic Church defines heresy. You can find the...

June 2016

June 21, 2016

Pope Francis Corrects Pope Francis; Will Media Correct Media? [Updated]

Update: An earlier version of what is below stated, incorrectly, that Adam Shaw's article neglected...

May 2016

May 10, 2016

Does Amoris Laetitia Contradict the Council of Trent?

Note: This is Part 5 of a five-part response to Dr. E. Christian Brugger's critique...

May 04, 2016

Is Amoris Laetitia Inconsistent in Its Treatment of Conscience?

Note: This is Part 3 of a five-part response to Dr. E. Christian Brugger's critique...

May 02, 2016

Now if Life Site News Could Correct the Record. Again. [Updated]

This post is intended as a brief follow-up to yesterday's (here), in which I noted...

May 02, 2016

Amoris Laetitia: Welcome to the Field Hospital [Guest Post]

The following is a guest post by Deacon Jim Russell, a regular contributor to Crisis...

May 01, 2016

Cardinal Schonborn Gives Clarification on Communion

I became aware of the video embedded at the bottom of this post by a...

April 2016

April 30, 2016

Interacting With the Spaemann Interview on Amoris Laetitia

Dr. Robert Spaemann, a retired German philosophy professor---why is it always the Germans?---who was an...

April 25, 2016

Is Amoris Laetitia’s Discussion of Culpability a “Serious Problem”?

At Catholic World Report, Dr. E. Christian Brugger has posted an article entitled "Five Serious...

April 19, 2016

Life Site News Gets a Pope Story Wrong. Again.

And it's by Jon-Henry Westen again; wonders! Been there, done that. In this latest example...

April 16, 2016

Pope Francis Gives Another Interview; False Reporting at 1 Vader 5 Begins Forthwith

Mr. Steve Skojec, of 1 Vader 5 infamy (he calls it 1 Peter 5; he's...

April 14, 2016

“Integrating Weakness”: Chapter 8 of Amoris Laetitia

In Chapter 8 of Amoris Laetitia, Pope Francis speaks of the "law of gradualness"; John...

April 11, 2016

Things Pope Francis Says in Amoris Laetitia That Few Will Mention

Everybody's talkin' 'bout communion, confusion, disunion, second union, this union, that union, revolution, evolution Let's...

April 11, 2016

Steve Skojec Says Amoris Laetitia 298 Condones Adultery. Steve Skojec is Wrong.

People send me links ("Did you see this??"); I don't seek out these things anymore....

April 08, 2016

The Most Important Section of Amoris Laetitia

Paragraph 7 of Amoris Laetitia is the most important section, and it tells us ...But...

April 06, 2016

What You Need To Know Before Friday’s Release of Amoris Laetitia

The Vatican is publishing a papal exhortation on Friday. *** If you like the content...

September 2015

September 29, 2015

Disappointed Judge Napolitano Calls Pope Francis a “False Prophet.” Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome Vol. XV.

So I go to Fox News and I find Judge Napolitano raving on about the...