On September 12, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), ripped Americans who are in favor of school choice and parental rights, comparing them to segregationists. Even worse, she lashed out at Christians who support these initiatives. She made her remarks to Seth D. Harris, a senior fellow at the Burnes Center for [...]
Some bishops and lay people from six continents are assembling in Rome for the Synod on Synodality; the laity constitute 21 percent of the participants. It runs from October 4-28. The Synod is less an event than a process. Begun in October 2021 by Pope Francis, it started with listening sessions in local churches around the [...]
William A. Donohue The United States is the richest and most powerful nation on earth. New York City is largely regarded as the number-one international city. The New York Yankees have the most World Series wins and the richest history of any major league team. The Catholic Church is seen as the most influential religious body [...]
Msgr. Robert J. Batule Russell Shaw and David Byers, Revitalizing Catholicism in America (Our Sunday Visitor, 2023) Authors Russell Shaw and David Byers in their new book Revitalizing Catholicism in America (Our Sunday Visitor, 2023) present evidence for the nation's largest religious body to be in a decline. To revitalize Catholicism in America, they say, we [...]
Time and again, commentators have observed that Catholic communities that adhere to the orthodoxies of the faith tend to flourish while those that embrace heterodoxies usually diminish. Below are several examples that highlight this trend. Mass Attendance Globally As seen on the chart below from the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA), major discrepancies [...]
If you look hard enough to find dirt, you will probably succeed. We are all sinners. A more interesting issue is why some people and institutions are the constant targets of dirt digging while others get a pass. The latest example is an article published in the September 11 edition of The Week magazine. Devika Rao's [...]
As we began the new school year, seven months after a mass murder at a Christian school in Nashville, the manifesto of the killer has still not been released to the public. On March 27, 2023, a 28-year-old female, Audrey Hale, who falsely claimed to be a male, shot and killed three children and three adults [...]
In 2014, Bill Donohue wrote a monograph, Ireland's "Mass Grave" Hysteria, on claims that 800 bodies of children were found in a mass grave outside a former home run by nuns in Tuam, near Galway. It was all a hoax, just as he had suspected. There was no mass grave. The result: It made the anti-Catholic [...]
On September 7, new documentation found at the Pontifical Biblical Institute was unveiled at the Shoah Museum in Rome. The evidence shows that during the Nazi occupation in Rome, from September 1943 to June 1944, 100 women's religious orders and 55 men's religious congregations were responsible for sheltering more than 4,300 persons. Of that number, 3,600 [...]
The new school year began with lawsuits to ensure religious liberty. In Colorado, the Archdiocese of Denver is suing the state over strictures in its new universal preschool program that would force Catholic schools to violate Catholic teachings. To be explicit, the archdiocese is saying that Colorado's Department of Early Childhood would mandate that Catholic preschools [...]
