Catholic Views

Five suggestions from Mother Angelica for Holy Week

03/25/2024 at 7:36 AM By Kevin Edward White

By Walter Sanchez Silva/ACI Prensa Staff, March 24, 2024 Mother Angelica, foundress of the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN), CNA’s parent company, once offered helpful advice for Holy Week. In a program broadcast in March 1994 before Easter, Mother Angelica offered five... read more

Joe Hosts a Heretic

03/22/2024 at 10:43 AM By Kevin Edward White

President Biden hosted a cadre of heretics at his St. Patrick's Day party, including Fr. James Martin By Austin Ruse, Crisis Magazine, March 22, 2024 [Austin Ruse, a contributing editor to Crisis Magazine, president of the Center for Family and Human Rights in New York and Washington DC.,... read more

Are Human Embryos Human Beings?

03/19/2024 at 4:10 PM By Kevin Edward White

By Robert P. George, National Review, March 18, 2024 Whether human embryos are human beings is a question resolved by human embryology and developrnental biology. Among the constants in hurnan history is this: When people want to justify killing, enslaving, or otherwise abusing a class... read more

Pope Francis, ‘doctor of the law’

03/19/2024 at 11:35 AM By Kevin Edward White

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture, March 19, 2024 Pope Francis frequently scolds the “doctors of the law,” the legalists, the clericalists. But his autobiography Life: My Story Through History shows that he fits into those categories himself. While the book is scheduled for... read more

Is ‘Christian Nationalism’ Really a Problem?

03/18/2024 at 11:56 AM By Kevin Edward White

ANALYSIS: The greater danger, experts warn, isn’t of an impending ‘Christian nationalist’ takeover, but that the term is being used to discredit Christian participation in the public square. By Jonathon Liedl, National Catholic Register, March 18, 2024 Do you believe that all men are... read more

How to Recognize False Mercy, According to Ven. Fulton Sheen

03/17/2024 at 1:34 PM By Kevin Edward White

Among Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s saintly insights and wisdom to keep us on the right path are his teachings on the mistaken notions of mercy. By Joseph Pronechen, National Catholic Register, March 16, 2019 From his television and radio shows to his many writings, Archbishop Futon Sheen... read more

‘For zeal for thy house has consumed me’

03/15/2024 at 9:18 PM By Kevin Edward White

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture, March 15, 2024 Recounting how Jesus drove the money-changers out of the Temple, the Gospel of St. John [2:17] refers back to Psalm 69: “For zeal for thy house has consumed me.” When that Gospel was read at Sunday Mass two weeks ago, my mind flashed back to... read more

A Neverending Talker and Expert on All Subjects: Pope Francis calls on Ukraine to surrender – by Roberto de Mattei

03/13/2024 at 2:12 PM By Kevin Edward White

By Robert De Mattei, Rorate Caeli, March 13, 2024 Catholic Church: Pope Francis calls on Ukraine to surrender? In an interview with Swiss Radio & Television, anticipated by agencies on March 9, Pope Francis called on Ukraine to have the courage to raise the white flag and negotiate. "I... read more

Global perspectives on the Alabama ruling, IVF and when cells become a person

03/11/2024 at 5:02 PM By Kevin Edward White

By Jennifer Chesak, Features correspondent, BBC, February 26, 2024 Alabama Supreme Court ruling raises questions about the definition of 'embryo' and whether fertilisation dictates 'personhood'. Here, medical consensus from around the world. In a recent court case over embryos accidentally... read more

Alabama’s new IVF law is stupefyingly bad legislation

03/07/2024 at 12:56 PM By Kevin Edward White

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

03/07/2024 at 9:32 AM By Kevin Edward White

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

Catholic Views

Five suggestions from Mother Angelica for Holy Week

Joe Hosts a Heretic

Are Human Embryos Human Beings?

Pope Francis, ‘doctor of the law’

Is ‘Christian Nationalism’ Really a Problem?

How to Recognize False Mercy, According to Ven. Fulton Sheen

‘For zeal for thy house has consumed me’

A Neverending Talker and Expert on All Subjects: Pope Francis calls on Ukraine to surrender – by Roberto de Mattei

Global perspectives on the Alabama ruling, IVF and when cells become a person

Alabama’s new IVF law is stupefyingly bad legislation

An Open Letter to Our Spiritual Fathers

Two Who Didn’t Run

Prayer, Fasting, and That Other One

Pope Francis: Sloganeering Politician

What is inclusive language and why is it dangerous?

Vladimir Putin Is No Christian Hero

How the Alabama In Vitro Fertilization Case Exposes the Wild West of Assisted Reproductive Technologies

Candid Catholicism

A profile of the next Pope, writes Cardinal

Toward a Confessing Church