Where Have All the Catholics Gone?
A book review of “Mass Exodus” by Stephen Bullivant.
The Epistle of St. Jude: A Letter for Our Present Crisis
The Epistle of St. Jude provides much comfort during today’s crisis in the Church.
The Antidote for Decaying Fatherhood
Fatherhood is attacked from every direction today. What is the antidote to these attacks?
To Love Fasting
Catholics need to again embrace an aesectical practice that’s been long forgotten: fasting.
Diocese on a Diet: Reducing the Temporal Power of the Bishops
As frustration and anger toward bishops grow, Catholics are asking what they can do to resist the corruption that has infected the episcopate. Ideas include prayer, fasting, writing letters, and protesting at USCCB meetings. All these are valid...
Selection Bias and the Process of Picking Better Bishops
“He’ll be a bishop someday.” That was the prediction in the parish I attended fifteen years ago. Our pastor was a nice man – likable and affable. No one had anything negative to say about him. The best word I can use to describe him is “safe.” He...
Dialogue or Disassociation: What to Do with Heretics and Public Sinners in the Church
The watchword of the day is “dialogue.” Invoked by Church leaders like an Eastern mystical mantra, dialogue is the solution to every problem. Pro-abortion politicians claiming to be good Catholics? We need dialogue. Priests promoting same-sex...
Who Watches the Watchmen? The Fatal Flaw of the Dallas Charter
It was 2003 and I was a young father sending my daughter to a Catholic elementary school. I wanted to be involved in the direction of the school, so I volunteered for the school board for a three-year term. Most meetings were what you would...