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As is typically the case with falsehood, the gender ideology now infesting the Department of State seeks to impose itself by bureaucratic power and personal intimidation.

We confess our sins, but we also confess our faith in Jesus Christ and his Church. In Baptism, Christians are made “confessors” by nature. It’s our vocation.

Surveying these three cases – Barros, Zanchetta, and Rupnik – raises concerns about what exactly has changed in the five years since Pope Francis’ abuse summit.

The contemporary Russian propaganda barrage has had its effects in a dysfunctional U.S. Congress.

The Church has always had a pattern of lapsing into atrophy and catastrophe, and then being restored by her saints.

Georges Bernanos ignored the theologically puffed up; loved the everyday believer; and wrote for the simple, faithful Catholic.

Having literary companions along the Lenten journey can help us live those traditional practices more intensely.

“I did a lot of interviews,” says Francis X. Maier, author of True Confessions, “103 of them over a 17-month period, all over the country; bishops, priests, permanent deacons, and religious, with a special focus on laypeople. Each had a different perspective but a single unifying theme…”

So many new titles crowd the eye each year. But these three books really do warrant attention.

The U.S. foreign service, like its counterparts in the major powers of Europe, is so thoroughly soaked in the juices of rationalist secularism that the professionals find it hard to take religiously-based political radicalism seriously.

It is one thing to read about social ontology or study the principle of solidarity and another thing to experience those realities in a concrete way.

Today’s geopolitical blindness about Ukraine—this willful deconstruction of the Western capacity to deter aggressive authoritarian powers—is a failure of moral insight and moral nerve as well as a political failure.