Yes, There Is Such a Thing as Social Sin in Catholic Teaching. Here’s What It...
Last month, Michael “Lepanto Institute” Hichborn made the lunatic claim that Judas Iscariot is “the patron saint of social justice.” In truth, it would be St. Martin de Porres. I wrote about it here...
View ArticleYes, Virginia, The Catechism is a Magisterial Document
The Magisterium is the teaching authority of the Catholic Church. The word does, after all, come from the Latin magister, which means “teacher.” So when St. John Paul II, in promulgating the Catechism...
View ArticlePriests Can’t Forgive Sins! Only God! Answers to Common Objections II Seriatim
Suppose you owed a debt you could not repay. Suppose further that my father is a very wealthy man, and because you are a good family friend, he decides to pay off this debt for you. He entrusts the...
View ArticleLet’s Watch As St. John Paul II “Kitchen Sinks” Pro-Life
Recently Leila Miller, a Catholic writer with a certain following, complained, yet again, about what she calls the “kitchen sinking” of the term “pro-life.” She worries—given the existence of that...
View ArticleThis Paul VI Encyclical Really Deserves a Birthday Party
On March 26, 1967, Pope Paul VI published an encyclical entitled Populorum Progressio. It is about the right to a just wage, employment, safe working conditions, to join a union, and the universal...
View ArticleKwasniewski, Fr. Murray, Death Site News Promote Falsehoods on Death Penalty
On Mr. Arroyo’s anti-Francis propaganda show The World Over, Fr. Murray said he had no idea, none, why the pope would think the death penalty violates the dignity of the human person. Death Site News...
View ArticleFr. Pavone Advocates Ends-Justifies-Means Heresy
Pavone, who spends a great deal of time congratulating himself, does not specify what specific actions he has in mind when says “what people like me did.” Can I assume that he includes among them his...
View ArticleDon’t Call Abortion a Holocaust, Says Pope Benedict XVI
On Facebook there’s a funny little guy who runs around interrogating people on whether they agree with John Paul II that abortion is just like the Holocaust. He’s a self-appointed Inquisitor who seems...
View ArticleThe condition of migrants is a pro-life issue, Fr. Pavone.
On Twitter, Fr. Frank Pavone—who, to my knowledge, has neither repented nor been disciplined for putting a dead fetus on an altar and filming a propaganda video for Donald Trump—wrote this: “There is...
View ArticleVeritatis Splendor: Deportation is intrinsically evil.
But Alt! But Alt! When the Church says deportation is evil, it has in mind the deportations that took place in World War II. You know, like that pic. That’s the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. Jews were...
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