In 2019, Pope Francis formally announced that the "Synodal Way" had begun. He called for a forum whereby the clergy and laity would weigh several issues facing the Church that need to be discussed, leading possibly to some reforms. From the beginning, Catholic dissidents seized the moment to promote their agenda, and nowhere was this more [...]
If we are going to stop the spread of monkeypox, we need to first admit that nature is not a social construct. It is a stubborn fact of life. It has never changed and never will. Nature's God has seen to that. One of nature's most stubborn facts is the body's limited capacity for abuse. If [...]
Imagine if those who drink too much alcohol and wind up damaging their liver were to band together demanding a cure for their malady, without first pledging to change their behavior. What would we say? What would we say to heavy smokers if they demanded a cure for lung cancer without first pledging to change their [...]
National Public Radio (NPR), using the taxpayers' dollars, ran a pernicious segment on "the importance of inclusion in sex education." In the course of its reporting, NPR assaulted parental rights, promoted pleasure-oriented sex education, and downplayed the dangers of sexually transmitted diseases (STD). To frame this conversation, NPR host Leila Fadel began by attacking parental rights. [...]
We live in a time when crackpots on the left and the right are surging, conjuring up conspiratorial theories about everything from the January 6 riot to the design of "racist" highways. The nice thing about devil's theories is that they appear to provide conclusive answers to complex problems. The drawback is that they're the work [...]
On August 4, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra declared monkeypox a national public health emergency. This decision was not based on medical conditions; rather, it was purely political. On August 10, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported there were 9,492 cases of monkeypox in the United States. On August 6, a news story [...]
As Bill Donohue pointed out in Common Sense Catholicism, higher education corrupts our capacity to exercise common sense. This is most glaringly obvious among white people; they have spent more time in school than blacks. The latest Pew Research Center survey on transgender persons unwittingly offers more proof of this observation. Respondents were asked whether being [...]
The World Health Organization (WHO) released its updated manual on Gender Mainstreaming for Health Managers. WHO officials boast that they now have "new gender, equity and human rights framework and tools" that will enable them to counter gender discrimination and related issues. The new features go "beyond non-binary approaches to gender and health to recognize gender [...]
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who has been told by her bishop, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, not to present herself for Holy Communion, has been begging for a confrontation with him for many years. Now she has succeeded. Less than two years after Cordileone was installed as the new archbishop in 2012, Pelosi, who [...]
After House Speaker Nancy Pelosi proved to be insubordinate, continuously rebuffing her bishop, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, she was told not to present herself for Communion. On May 24, she went on MSNBC to say that not only is the archbishop wrong, the entire Church is wrong. She said the Church is wrong about abortion, [...]
