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In an open letter to the German episcopate, 80 bishops voiced their strong concern over the direction of Germany’s “Synodal Path.”

A lengthy healing process notwithstanding, Ukraine has experienced more than the Passion this Lent.

It’s a gift to sit through a religiously-themed film today that leaves no taste of artificial sweetener in the mouth. And that’s why Father Stu should not be missed.

What happens in Germany will not stay in Germany.

That there is opposition to Pope Francis in the Church is as obvious, even as it is difficult to define just what constitutes opposition

The exact same kind of barbarism displayed by the NKVD in 1940 has been on display in the actions of Russian troops over the past five weeks.

The Evil One operates through many instruments, it seems. And once one surrenders to hatred, ideological besottedness, jealousy, fear of the present, or despair about the future, the door is open for the Great Tempter to work his wicked ways through human weakness.

It is simply not the case that serious Christians can no longer use the categories of “just” and “unjust” in thinking about warfare.

This is the heart of the Good News: Hope, born of faith, frees us for love.

As Putin’s missiles have shattered Mariupol’, Kirill’s acquiescence in barbarism has shattered Russian Orthodoxy’s campaign to be first among Orthodox equals.

Tyrants cannot tolerate the truth.

The war in Ukraine has all the elements of an exceptionally vivid videogame. . .except that real people are really fighting and dying.