Apologetics

I Have Mentally Checked Out

11/30/2021 at 9:50 PM By Kevin Edward White
[Peter Kwasniewski was our June 2019 Catholic Citizens of Illinois Monthly Forum Speaker, addressing "Of What Use is a Changing Catechism?" Leila Lawler will be our Monthly Forum Luncheon speaker May 13, on “Feminism – a Toxic Ideology Incompatible with Catholicism”] By Dan Millette,... read more

Catholic Converts Tell Their Story of Eucharistic Reckoning

07/15/2021 at 2:21 PM By Kevin Edward White
How Holy Communion figured prominently in the decisions of Bishop James Conley, evangelist Sonja Corbitt and apologist Scott Hahn to become Catholic. By Roxanne King, National Catholic Register, July 14, 2021 Last month, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops voted to craft a teaching... read more

A Fine Time to Be a Catholic

05/03/2021 at 3:20 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Robert R. Reilly, Crisis, April 30, 2021 As the late, great Fr. James Schall reminded us, “St. Thomas Aquinas teaches that the greatest service that we can offer our neighbor is to know the truth, to speak the truth.” Austin Ruse offers this greatest service in his new book, Under... read more

Doing Justice to St. Joseph (Part 2)

01/19/2021 at 6:05 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Michael Pakaluk, Catholic Thing, January 19, 2021 As a Catholic, I believe that “sola scriptura” is wrong. Scripture is not sufficient by itself as a rule of Christian faith. It’s obviously wrong, too, because Scripture cannot say what counts as Scripture or not. So the Church is... read more

Signs of Mind

12/29/2020 at 3:59 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Hadley Arkes, The Catholic Thing, December 29, 2020 I found myself, in this season of holidays, in conversation with a bright young man, who has been in a fine boarding school – but learning now remotely in the time of COVID. He has stayed, though, in constant touch with his friends at... read more

Young People Crave Truth That Only Traditional Catholicism Can Deliver

11/23/2020 at 9:55 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Ben Hachten, OnePeterFive OnePeterFive November 19, 2020 As I was reading the comments (I know, never do that) of my recent article in The American Conservative, It’s Not Your Father’s GOP, several commenters opined that a socially conservative political movement will never play with the... read more

Mayor Pete, Notre Dame, and the Church

08/27/2020 at 4:10 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
SYCAMORE TRUST, AUGUST 26, 2020 Appointing pro-abortion, pro-same sex marriage, anti-religious liberty #Buttiieg to the @NotreDame faculty scandalizes and entangles the school in partisan politics. #GoCatholicNDCLICK TO TWEET Mayor Pete, Notre Dame, and the Church In late June, Notre Dame... read more

Substitutes for Thought

08/23/2020 at 3:52 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Fr. Gerald E. Murray, August 22, 2020 “Liberalism reduces Christianity to slogans; slogans are a substitute for thought.” That’s how Dartmouth College English professor and National Review editor the late Jeffrey Hart, my revered teacher and friend, thus categorized the... read more

Banish Sin, Transform the Church

08/22/2020 at 3:42 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
David G Bonagura, Jr., August 16, 2020 The Second Vatican Council is back in the news lately, with two prominent, tradition-minded bishops revisiting well-known arguments of conciliar interpretation in light two recent Vatican documents, Amoris Laetitia and the Abu Dhabi statement [1] on world... read more

US bishop: AOC calling St. Damien white supremacist ‘crazy, outrageous, insulting’

08/06/2020 at 12:02 PM By Kevin Edward White
Bishop Robert Barron took Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to task, calling her accusation 'a colossally misguided attack on this enormously important figure.' By Doug Mainwaring, LifeNews, August 3, 2020 WASHINGTON, D.C., August 3, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — After U.S. House member Alexandria... read more

Don’t ‘blackmail’ kids into coming to church, Vatican official says

06/26/2020 at 11:20 AM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Cindy Wooden, Jun 25, 2020, CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE Don’t ‘blackmail’ kids into coming to church, Vatican official says ROME — Although he said, “I would never go to war” over the proper age to administer the sacrament of confirmation, Archbishop Rino Fisichella said too often... read more

The dangers of proliferating Communion services

06/08/2020 at 4:53 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

James Martin S.J. Strikes Again

03/18/2020 at 4:27 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Faith in Humanity

02/18/2020 at 3:12 PM By Kevin Edward White

The Decline and Fall of Catholic Moral Theology

02/06/2020 at 10:10 AM By Kevin Edward White

Fearing Rightly

12/22/2019 at 10:27 PM By Kevin Edward White

Pope Francis’s Hermeneutic of Anti-Continuity

12/22/2019 at 10:04 PM By Kevin Edward White

The Nuclear Catechism

12/22/2019 at 4:46 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
St. Peter preaching

Why doctrine matters when it comes to evangelization

11/08/2019 at 9:53 AM By Kevin Edward White

Wanted: a new St. Augustine, to challenge bad pastors

09/29/2019 at 12:04 PM By Mary Anne Hackett