After Pope Francis and President Biden met recently, President Biden said that the pope called him a "good Catholic" and that he should "keep receiving communion." The Vatican has not confirmed the veracity of Biden's account. Like everyone else, we at the Catholic League have no way of knowing whether Biden's remarks are accurate. But from [...]
Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez is under attack by left-wing Catholics and outside activists for his stellar speech given in Spain on November 4th. They are particularly angered over his comments on contemporary social justice movements, which he properly labeled as "pseudo-religions." The petition portrays Gomez as being somehow indifferent to racial injustice. That is a [...]
Many Catholics were dismayed, if not furious, when they learned of news reports indicating that Pope Francis told President Biden on October 29 that he was "a good Catholic" and "should keep receiving Communion." The Vatican has neither confirmed nor denied this account. As we said when the news broke, we have good reasons to be [...]
In Dave Chappelle's Netflix special "The Closer" he says "Gender is a fact. Every human being in this room, every human being on earth, had to pass through the legs of a woman to be on earth. That is a fact." Chappelle is twice wrong, but that should not distract us from what he meant. [What [...]
Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, who identifies as a Catholic, has yet to find an abortion he couldn't justify. That is why his bishop, Thomas J. Paprocki of Springfield, recently said he will be denied Holy Communion in his diocese. Durbin was incensed. He complained that "Other Catholics may share my point of view [on abortion]—statistics suggest [...]
In the name of helping families, President Biden wants to reward many of those who broke into our country illegally by making them millionaires. However, American families that are living here legally and elect to place their children in religious child care centers have to wing it on their own. On October 31, Fox News reporter [...]
The validity of a survey often turns on the precise wording of questions. Indeed, it is possible to construct two different sets of questions for the same respondents on the same subject and generate two different outcomes. For instance, if the goal is to show how tolerant liberals are of diversity in education, it makes sense [...]
The IRS has guidelines that tax-exempt organizations must follow regarding electoral politics. While those who work in the non-profit sector may address the issues, they are forbidden from endorsing candidates for public office. No matter, Vice President Kamala Harris showed her contempt for these norms during the run-up to the November elections. She had videotaped a [...]
Halloween is a time when children dress up as monsters and witches. It's also a time when some adults get dressed up, but, unlike the children, they actually think they've adopted a new identity. To wit: CNN did a story about German Catholic women who dress up as priests and sincerely believe they've become members of [...]
Randall Balmer is a Dartmouth professor who maintains that the origins of the conservative evangelical-Catholic alliance, or what he prefers to call "the religious right," are rooted in racism. A liberal evangelical himself, he has written about this story many times, and recounts it again in his new book, Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of [...]
