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July 2019

July 17, 2019

Veritatis Splendor: Deportation is intrinsically evil.

But Alt! But Alt! When the Church says deportation is evil, it has in...

May 2019

May 16, 2019

Crisis!!! Plays Benedict vs. Francis on Amoris Laetitia

Richard A. Spinello, author of this article at Crisis!!!, goes as far as to...

July 2018

July 25, 2018

This Paul VI Encyclical Really Deserves a Birthday Party

On March 26, 1967, Pope Paul VI published an encyclical entitled Populorum Progressio. It is...

July 15, 2018

Yes, The Term “Social Justice” Can Be Found in Church Encyclicals

Someone, somewhere (for I must protect the innocent and befuddled) recently proclaimed that, yes, it...

April 2018

April 11, 2018

Pope Francis Contradicts B16 and JP2 on Abortion? Fake (Site) News!

I tell you again: Give no credence to Fake Site News. Never give them credence,...

November 2017

November 26, 2017

The Filial Correction Corrected. Part 7 of a Response to The Correctors.

I have refuted all the other charges of heresy the filial ones have made against...

October 2017

October 08, 2017

The Filial Correction Corrected. Part 6 of a Response to The Correctors.

Give The Correctors credit for consistency. So far, in their self-styled “filial correction” of Pope...

October 02, 2017

The Filial Correction Corrected. Part 5 of a Response to The Correctors.

Given its sterling and unbroken record for inaccuracy, perhaps we should be referring to the...

October 01, 2017

The Filial Correction Corrected! Part 4 of a Response to The Correctors.

The fourth charge of heresy the filial correction lays at the feet of Pope Francis...

September 2017

September 27, 2017

The Filial Correction Corrected. Part 3 of a Response to The Correctors.

In listing supposed heresies of Pope Francis in Amoris Laetitia, the authors of the filial...

September 27, 2017

The Filial Correction Corrected. Part 2 of a Response to The Correctors.

The filial correction is a work, says the National Catholic Reporter, of “mainly obscure figures,”...

September 24, 2017

The Filial Correction Corrected. Part 1 of a Response to The Correctors.

Edward Pentin breathlessly says this is the first filial correction since 1333. I mean, wow....

September 16, 2017

Fake Site News Falsely Accuses New Pro Life Movement of “Liberal Boilerplate”

Contrary to the insistence of Fake Site News, the goals of the New Pro Life...

September 13, 2017

Reports of the Threats to Humanae Vitae Are Greatly Exaggerated

Can we read what Pope Francis has actually said about Humanae Vitae? Is this too...

April 2017

April 24, 2017

The Incoherence of “Just Clarify Amoris! Answer the Dubia!”

True it is that I have said myself: Pope Francis should answer the dubia on...

April 06, 2017

About that Syllabus of Errors….Guess What Else Pius IX Condemned?

Enemies of so-called "innovations" in Vatican II like to cite the Syllabus of Errors in...

March 2017

March 28, 2017

Cardinal Burke Can’t “Correct” the Pope, But the Pope Can Correct Burke

Lysergic Acid News is blaring trumpets again about the so-called "correction" of the pope by...

March 17, 2017

Yes, There Is Such a Thing as Social Sin in Catholic Teaching. Here’s What It Means. (And What It Does Not.)

Last month, Michael "Lepanto Institute" Hichborn made the lunatic claim that Judas Iscariot is "the...

March 13, 2017

Does This Ratzinger Quote Refute Catholic Social Justice Advocates?

But Alt! Is social justice really a duty of the State? Come now. Doesn't Ratzinger...

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 10, 2016

Does Amoris Laetitia Treat the Moral Law as a Mere “Ideal”?

Note: This is Part 4 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

Does Amoris Laetitia Tell Us Not to Judge?

Note: This is Part 2 of a five-part response to Dr. E. Christian Brugger's critique...