“Cancel” culture

Michigan priest resigns amid dispute over school appearance by ‘openly gay’ author 

By Daniel Payne, Catholic News Agency/CNA Staff, April 18, 2024 A priest at a Michigan parish has resigned his post following a controversy over an “openly gay” author’s appearance at the parish parochial school’s pre-kindergarten class. Father Thomas Held has resigned from the... read more

Free Speech Wins! Belgian Court Overturns Ban on Conservative Conference

Cardinal Müller told author Rod Dreher that the attempt to shut down the conference was ‘like Nazi Germany.’ By Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register, April 17, 2024 BRUSSELS — Belgium’s highest court ruled late last night that a conference upholding conservative values in the... read more

French court sentences Cardinal Ouellet, religious community to fines after expelling nun

By Alexander Folz, Catholic News Agency, April 5, 2024 A French court in Lorient, in Brittany, on Wednesday fined Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet, PSS; the Dominican Sisters of the Holy Spirit in Pontcallec; and two apostolic visitors, Jean-Charles Nault and Maylis Desjobert, for the wrongful... read more

The Group So Marginalized They Are Forgotten

In all the calls to remember the "marginalized," one group that doesn't even get mentioned is boys. Yet marginalized they are. By Anthony Esolen, Crisis Magazine, April 1, 2024 I have been seeing ads put out by a conservative organization urging us to protect girls and women who want to... read more

The New Religion of the Left: Nihilism

By Victor Davis Hanson, Daily Signal, December 14, 2023 Nihilism is the religion of the Left. Anarchy is now at the core of the new Democratic Party. If the Left wished radically to alter the demography of the U.S., it could have expanded legal immigration through legislation or the... read more

Public Statement/Press Release December 7, 2023 (Coalition for Cancelled Priests)

Public Statement/Press Release December 7, 2023 The Coalition for Canceled Priests’ Board of Directors provides this public statement following its investigation of the Coalition’s co-founder and former president, Father John Lovell, particularly in response to his press release posted on... read more

Bavaria’s bishops criticize AfD after election success

By Luke Coppen, The Pillar, December 1, 2023 . 2:34 PM   The bishops in the southern German state of Bavaria sharply criticized the Alternative for Germany (AfD) political party Thursday after it made gains in state elections. Members of the Freising Bishops’... read more

EXCLUSIVE: Strickland sacking signals ‘internal persecution of faithful Catholics’

[Bishop Athanasius Schneider was the featured speaker at our October 2017 Catholic Citizens of Illinois Annual Banquet.– Catholic Citizens of Illinois Ed.] By Simon Caldwell, Catholic Herald (UK), November 27. 2023 An “internal persecution” of faithful Catholics is under way in the... read more

Pope Francis and the ‘subsidiarity’ of the rule of law

By Ed Condon, The Pillar, November 30, 2023 There is no set process or criteria for disciplining or dismissing a bishop, one of the Vatican’s most senior canon lawyers said Tuesday, while insisting that decentralization remains central to the Church’s ecclesiology. Speaking to press Nov.... read more

Canada’s human rights commission suggests Christmas and Easter holidays amount to ‘systemic religious discrimination’

By Joseph MacKinnon, Blaze Media, November 24, 2023 The Canadian Human Rights Commission recently published a paper suggesting that statutory holidays linked to celebrations of Christian significance, Christmas and Easter in particular, are evidence of "religious intolerance." The... read more

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ACLU?

By Helen Abdrews, First Things, December 2023 When he was a young social worker in St. Louis, Roger Baldwin was briefly engaged to Anna Louise Strong, who later published more books in defense of the Russian Bolsheviks and Chinese Maoists than any other English-speaking author and ended up... read more