All posts by Kevin Edward White

Saban’s Enduring Influence at the Alabama Catholic Center

Where Coach Goes After the Game: How the legendary football coach has played a critical role in helping the university’s faith community grow. Faith and football: showing their school spirit (photo: Bama Catholic) By Jack Figge, National Catholic Reporter, March 2, 2024 TUSCALOOSA, Ala.... read more

Pope Francis’ health appears improved during visit to Rome parish

ROME (Reuters) - Pope Francis' health appeared to have improved on Friday as he presided at a ritual at a Rome parish without the signs of fatigue from a bout of bronchitis that forced him to limit activities over the past two weeks. Francis seemed more or less back to normal during a... read more

‘Scandalous’: Catholics React to Biden’s State of the Union

CV NEWS FEED // Many prominent Catholics took to X (formerly Twitter) Thursday to slam President Joe Biden after he delivered his final State of the Union Address before facing voters in November. The president spent a significant amount of time during the first part of his speech discussing... read more

Alabama’s new IVF law is stupefyingly bad legislation

By Kenneth Craycraft, Our Sunday Visitor, March 7, 2024 Hard cases make bad law, as the saying goes. Alabama has demonstrated that hard cases combined with hasty legislation make shocking and dreadful law. On March 6, Governor Kay Ivey signed into law Senate Bill 159. The bill is an... read more

An Open Letter to Our Spiritual Fathers

Fathers, please preach boldly about sin and demand excellence in the spiritual life. By Christopher J. Brennan, Esq., Crisis Magazine, March 7, 2024 Dear Fathers,  As we find ourselves in Lent and then Eastertide thereafter, I plead to the priests of our nation as a son to a father.... read more

France becomes first country in world to make abortion a constitutional right

By Catholic Herald (UK) staff, March 4, 2024 France has chosen to enshrine abortion as a constitutional right, thereby becoming the only country in the world to use its most fundamental principles of national law to guarantee the right to terminate a pregnancy up to 14 weeks. Lawmakers... read more

REPORT: Catholic Relief Services Directly Tied to Abortion, Contraception, and Condoms in Africa

By Lepanto Institute/Population Research Institute (PRI), March 6, 2024 Front Royal, VA – The Lepanto Institute and Population Research Institute (PRI) held a press conference at 11:00 EST this morning to reveal the results of a year-long investigation of Catholic Relief Services (CRS)... read more

Pope Francis’ Latest Appearance Raises Health Concerns

Pope Reveals Surprising Plans For His Funeral By Rachel Dobkin, Newsweek, March 6, 2024 Pope Francis' latest public appearance has raised concerns about the 87-year-old's health as he struggled on Wednesday with his public speaking and mobility. Francis has been battling some minor health... read more

Two Who Didn’t Run

By George Weigel, First Things, March 6, 2024 His neighbors in 1940s Oklahoma would have found it hard to imagine the boy they knew as Stanley Francis Rother as a future martyr and the first beatified American parish priest. Young Stan did reasonably well at school, enjoyed farm work and... read more

Anti-Christian drift of human rights agenda continues with new European ‘sexual and reproductive rights’ report 

By Andrew Tettenborn. Catholic Herald (UK), March 4, 2024 You might think Catholics and human rights lawyers should have a good deal in common. The political idea of universal rights beyond curtailment by secular powers certainly seems to chime neatly with the Christian doctrine of the... read more

Prayer, Fasting, and That Other One

By Jacob Imam, Imaginative Conservative, February 23rd, 2024 By an act of almsgiving, we remedy an unjust distribution of the gift of the whole earth; we remedy, for our neighbor, what disobedience to God’s plan has wrought. Almsgiving is fitting for the forgiveness of sin because it uses... read more

Pope Francis: Sloganeering Politician

What is inclusive language and why is it dangerous?

Vladimir Putin Is No Christian Hero