ChurchMilitanmt.com writes — In his 1981 magnum opus Simulacra and Simulation, French postmodernist thinker Jean Baudrillard famously coined the term, “hyperreality,” which the philosopher defined as a situation in which symbols, images or what Baudrillard calls “simulacra and simulation,” become “more real Read more
Jules Gomes reports for ChurchMilitant.com — Priests at St. John Henry Newman’s world-famous oratory will resist the archbishop of Birmingham’s “Communion in hand only” diktat by administering Communion on the tongue “in the context of a rite separate from Mass.” Read more
CNA reports — The legislature of the Australian state of Queensland on Tuesday passed a law requiring priests to violate the seal of confession to report known or suspected child sex abuse. Failure to do so will be punished with Read more
Kathy Clubb reports for The Remnant — Catholic educators should have little excuse to stray from the clear guidelines set forth by the magisterium. For example, Pope Leo XIII wrote that in Catholic schools, the Faith “is to be preserved, Read more
CatholicCulture.org writes — Last week saw the sudden passing away of Fr. Paul Mankowski, a Jesuit of the Midwest province and a former contributor to CatholicCulture.org. For years, he spearheaded CatholicCulture.org’s old “Off the Record” column, writing under the pseudonym Read more
Dr Michael Brown writes for LifeSiteNews — Speaking of Orwell’s 1984, a blog post noted that, “By controlling the language, Big Brother controls the way that the people think. With a limited vocabulary, the people are limited in how much Read more
Virginia Allen writes for the Daily Signal — American civil society is facing a serious domestic threat: Marriage is declining and family stability with it. Between 1962 and 2019, the percentage of women ages 15 to 44 who were married fell by Read more
Dr Joseph Shaw writes for LifeSiteNews – J.D. Flynn, editor at Catholic News Service, has told his Twitter followers: Every time I go to Mass it is hard for me to receive in the hand. Every time I go to Mass, I Read more
Jules Gomes reports for ChurchMilitant.com — Pope Francis is facing a mounting backlash from clerics, commentators and laity for directly contradicting Scripture to buttress his ideological agenda. Francis turns the Tower of Babel on its head The pontiff’s Read more
John C. Wright writes for OnePeterFive — Few men have ever hated Christ as much as I have, before turning to love Him. Before I was a Catholic, I was an atheist, and not an atheist who kept his opinions Read more