Pope Francis

Pope Francis's Warning

One way to eliminate gay culture in the clergy is to eliminate from the very beginning those who might be inclined to participate in it. It’s a bottom-up approach. Continue Reading »

13 Dec 2018

Pray for the Pope

by Michael Warren Davis

We’re called to love all people according to their station. That goes for the pope, whoever he may be and whatever he may do. Continue Reading »

10 Dec 2018

Death Penalty Sad to say, but as surely as night follows day, when Pope Francis speaks on doctrinal matters, confusion results. And so it is with the pope’s August revision to section 2267 of the Catechism. Although taught by the Church for two millennia as a legitimate punishment for . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2018

Against Inevitable Adultery

by Dan Hitchens

Stephen Walford's Pope Francis, the Family and Divorce: In Defense of Truth and Mercy experiments with the idea that it is excessive to ask divorced-and-remarried couples to choose between receiving the Eucharist and having sex. Continue Reading »

6 Nov 2018

Paul VI and the Canonization of Vatican II

by Jake Neu

By canonizing John XXIII, John Paul II, and Paul VI, Pope Francis is embracing Vatican II and the changes it wrought. Continue Reading »

12 Oct 2018

Catholicism After 2018

by R. R. Reno

Theodore McCarrick has been stripped of his status as cardinal for pursuing young men throughout his clerical career. “Uncle Ted” liked to take his “nephews” to bed with him. The public revelations of this fact evoked outrage. It was not so much that a churchman sinned as that he did so . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 2018

Magisterial Irresponsibility

by Steven A. Long

Luis Francisco Cardinal Ladaria Ferrer of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) has announced to the bishops Pope Francis’s approval of new material addressing capital punishment in the Catechism of the Catholic Church (number 2267). The inserted passage notes “an . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 2018

Francis and the Journalists

by John Waters

When you read the pope’s response in light of what has happened—or not happened—in the several days since, it acquires an ominous tenor. Continue Reading »

31 Aug 2018