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On October 16, 2025, the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, chaired by French Archbishop Thibault Verny, published its second report on the state of the fight against abuse in the Catholic Church. The nearly 200-page booklet still does not provide any figures on the number of victims or of pedophile clergy. However, it Read More…

Victims’ voices at heart of report on combating Church abuse

On October 19, 2025, Pope Leo XIV will preside over the canonization Mass of seven new saints at the Vatican. Among them is the Armenian Catholic Archbishop of Mardin, Ignatius Maloyan, martyr of the Armenian genocide in 1915. His canonization is significant because it takes place a few weeks before Pope Leo XIV’s trip to Read More…

Who is Archbishop Ignatius Maloyan, Armenian martyr?

The feast of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque this month calls to mind the beautiful devotion she helped spread. She was blessed to receive visions and apparitions of Jesus’ Sacred Heart, and she dedicated her life to spreading the fire of true devotion to Christ. In her Autobiography, she describes one such vision: Jesus spoke of Read More…

His Sacred Heart is wounded for you: Here’s how to respond

“Peace is a demanding word. Peace must be prepared,” warned Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem. He was commenting on the truce in Gaza, on the sidelines of an event he attended in Rome on October 15, 2025. Practically speaking, the cardinal called for change among the political and religious leaders of the Holy Read More…

Holy Land cardinal: Gaza won’t go suddenly from black to white

Invoking historical precedents from a different time and legal order to justify mass illegal immigration in the present stretches analogy beyond reason.

The Church will face an increasing number of bizarre marital arrangements that will seek to push long-standing ecclesial-determined boundaries.

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I am by no means a free speech absolutist. In an article at Postliberal Order a couple of years ago, I set out the natural law position on the issue, noting that the teleology or final cause of [...]