More and More Jesuits

by Francis X. Maier

One of the key flaws in Cardinal Hollerich’s approach is that he underestimates the power of God’s grace and overestimates the credibility of social science.  Continue Reading »

3 Apr 2023

Downstream from Dobbs

by Gerard V. Bradley

Though Roe has been overturned, it doesn't look like the landmark cases that made contraception, sodomy, and same-sex marriage constitutional rights are going anywhere. Continue Reading »

12 Oct 2022

Comfort to Predators

by Paul V. Mankowski

In the Closet of the Vatican:  Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy by frédéric martel translated by shaun whiteside bloomsbury, 576 pages, $30 The cursus of Frédéric Martel’s work can be expressed quite simply: He takes 576 pages to convince us that the Roman Catholic clergymen who live and . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2019

Peter Damian’s Counsel

by Charlotte Allen

Sometime during the second half of the year 1049, Peter Damian, prior of the hermitage of Fonte Avellana in what is now the Italian region of Marche near the Umbrian border, wrote a lengthy letter to newly installed Pope Leo IX. The letter concerned “the befouling cancer of sodomy,” which Peter . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2018

Nashville and Sodom

by Aaron Taylor

If the Nashville Statement's bare-bones theology is the front-line battle plan for Christianity’s defense against the onslaught of the sexual revolution, then we should prepare for the trenches to be overrun. Continue Reading »

11 Sep 2017