Cardinal Zen was my guest in Kingston in 2013 because he knows the Church needs more men like St. John Fisher. Henry kept Cardinal John Fisher in the Tower of London; now the Chinese regime threatens Cardinal Zen with prison. Continue Reading »
Setting debates about the virtues and vices of the TLM aside, Cardinal Gregory’s decision will have serious, real-world consequences for parochial life in D.C. Continue Reading »
Against our bleak horizon, it seems impossible to hope that peace and liberty may prevail. But Providence is still at work, if hidden from our eyes. Continue Reading »
As of May 15, Catholic journalists around the world will be able to count one of their number among the saints, as Titus Brandsma, a Dutch Carmelite killed at the Dachau concentration camp in 1942, is canonized in St. Peter’s Square. Continue Reading »
Reform will only happen if the Church remembers that she exists because of Christ and “in order to evangelize,” as Paul VI said. Continue Reading »
I hope and pray that the German bishops will listen to the Holy Father and their brother bishops and turn from their path of division. Continue Reading »
Fr. Michael Nazir–Ali joins the podcast to discuss his conversion from Anglicanism to Catholicism. Continue Reading »
Those who claim that the Church has nothing to do except resist and condemn are mistaken; but they are less mistaken than those who think we should raise the gates and invite the enemy in. Continue Reading »
Let us not lose the opportunity to thank our maker for giving us the gift of Alice von Hildebrand, who arduously defended the truth through her formidable faculties of head and heart. Continue Reading »
As his latest album demonstrates, a subset of Sting’s songs reverberates with the legacy of an urban English Catholic childhood of the 1950s and ’60s. Continue Reading »
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