The Biden administration is proceeding with its initiative to provide identification cards to illegal immigrants through the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Secure Docket Card program. Read more
In a rare intervention, the Holy See Press Office has rushed to clarify that a top cardinal's abrupt withdrawal from the forthcoming synod is not due to Rome's recent exoneration of a celebrity predator priest. Cardinal Luis Ladaria Ferrer, the former prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, canceled his participation in Pope Francis' pet project just after the vicariate of Rome published a report casting aspersions on the excommunication of Fr. Marko Ivan Rupnik. Read more
A German Member of the European Parliament recently made a resolute promise to the people and her colleagues by pledging unwavering support for freedom, democracy and the rule of law. Christine Anderson has vowed to persistently confront what she referred to as "globalitarian misanthropists." Read more
Since President Joe Biden took office in 2021, approximately 3.8 million individuals have entered the United States through its borders. Almost half of them entered illegally without detection. Read more
As a Jew under Roman rule, St. Paul intuited that the font of true earthly unity isn't some man-made State, even one as grand as the Roman Empire. Rather he knew that the Catholic Church was the only institution that can serve this purpose. We Americans can learn much from Paul, because we ourselves tend to think of America as a vehicle for world unity and peace. Enroll in CM's first-ever Bible Masterclass on Ephesians to learn more about St. Paul's theology. Read more
Pope Francis has invited a leading Pentecostal so-called apostle and televangelist who supports the criminalization of homosexuality to participate in the forthcoming Synod on Synodality. Professor Opoku Onyinah, who backs the anti-LGBT bill unanimously passed by the Parliament of Ghana in July, will be permitted to join in the synodal discussions as a "fraternal delegate," but he will not be allowed to vote. Read more
The White House criticized the House Oversight chairman for scheduling an impeachment hearing of President Joe Biden just two days before the deadline to fund the government for the coming fiscal year. Read more
During his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland faced accusations of operating the Department of Justice with an anti-Catholic bias and favoritism towards the Biden administration. Read more
The doctrine of justification has always hinged on the question of faith; that is, the question of belief, choice and salvation. This is why every debate among Christians — be it between Catholics and Protestants, Protestants and Protestants, or even Catholics and Catholics — has at its core the question, "How are we saved?" Of course, the answer is settled: For every man that has been saved or will be saved, it's their faith that grants them entrance into the Kingdom of God. Read more
A confidential investigation authorized by Pope Francis into an Australian bishop has found that the prelate may have sexually abused and groomed 71 young aboriginal males. In the 200-page bombshell report, witnesses described Bp. Christopher Saunders as "a sexual predator" who sought "to prey upon vulnerable aboriginal men and boys" and groomed his victims, plying them with cash, alcohol, hotels, phones, phone credit, air and bus travel. Read more
The state of Kansas is changing its birth certificate policy to stop permitting gender-confused individuals from altering their sex on important documentation. Read more
Hundreds of students marched in protest as their school district failed to protect vulnerable women from mentally ill men. Students at Pennsylvania's Perkiomen Valley School District staged a walkout Friday after the school board failed to pass a policy prohibiting biological males from using female restrooms. Read more
Only half of U.S. adults find "open marriages" unacceptable, as the nation's moral collapse continues. A Pew Research poll published last week found a greater acceptance of marital infidelity among younger adults. Read more
Fr James Martin's recently published book, Come Forth — The Promise of Jesus's Greatest Miracle, is, at most, mediocre. To promote this book and himself, Martin not only promotes sodomy, but also pushes some ridiculous canards. For this reason, Fr. Kalchik gives this book a thumbs-down. Read more
Victims of the sexual abuse allegedly perpetrated by a former Jesuit celebrity artist are condemning Pope Francis and the diocese of Rome for downplaying the egregious acts committed against over 25 nuns. In a letter to Pope Francis published Tuesday, former nuns of the Loyola Community said they were "left speechless" by Rome's cover-up of serial abuser Fr. Marko Ivan Rupnik. Read more
A Catholic prelate is denouncing the notion that Pope Francis is not the valid pontiff of the Catholic Church. Would-be sedevacantists should take notice. Bishop Athanasius Schneider produced the latest anti-sedevacantist commentary in a Sept. 18 statement, aptly titled "About the Validity of the Pontificate of Pope Francis." Read more
A 2023 Gallup poll is revealing a decline in American citizens' overall support for gender-dysphoric accommodations. The numbers show that while Americans are divided on whether or not a person can be "transgender," there is much less of a divide about whether someone should be able to compete against the opposite sex in sports. Read more
Faithful Catholics around the world are invited to join Benedictine monks in England for a novena to St. Michael the Archangel. The novena begins on Sept. 21 and runs through Sept. 29, the Feast of St. Michael. It's being initiated by the Benedictine monks of the historic St. Michael's Abbey in Farnborough, 30 kilometers outside of London. Read more