Why ‘Cathonomics’ Is Neither Catholic nor Economic

The title of the book Cathonomics: How Catholic Tradition Can Create a More Just Economy is intriguing, since it highlights that the Church has much to offer in the line of economics. The author tries to merge two fields that generally do not mix, although they should. However, it is one thing … Read more

The Holy Shroud: a Twenty-First Century Gospel

The Holy Shroud of Turin confirms the terrible punishments inflicted on Our Lord Jesus Christ during the Passion with such extraordinary precision that it has even been called the “Fifth Gospel.” Meditating on the Passion and Death of Our Lord Jesus Christ, especially during Lent, has always been an occasion of great … Read more

How Christian Socialism Infiltrated into the Church

To understand the crisis inside the Church, one must first look at the processes that led to the present situation inside the Church. The roots of this crisis extend much farther back than the times of the Second Vatican Council. It can be seen in the appearance of Christian Socialism in the … Read more

Where Integralism Goes Wrong

Where Integralism Goes Wrong

A grand debate is raging inside the Catholic world over the role of the political order in a Christian society. Many have seen the secular world’s failure to address the needs of the soul and thus reject liberalism’s artificial separation of the political and spiritual spheres. One proposed philosophy is called Integralism. … Read more

The ‘Whole Life Movement’ Tries to Equate the Pro-life Message and Climate Change: It Fails

On March 20, The New York Times published an article—“How the ‘Whole Life’ Movement Challenges the Politics of Left vs. Right”—in which columnist and Anglican minister Tish Harrison Warren discussed the “Whole Life Movement.” More of an ideology than an official, well-defined movement, the “Whole Life” movement initially appears to support the … Read more

New Book Shows Why Americans Must be Concerned about Liberation Theology Today

The following article is adapted from John Horvat’s foreword for the book Liberation Theology: How Marxism Infiltrated the Catholic Church written by Julio Loredo de Izcue. ✧                    †                    ✧ Many look at liberation theology as a Latin American phenomenon that need not concern Americans. In 1971, Fr. Gustavo Gutiérrez, a Peruvian theologian, released the movement’s seminal … Read more

Considerations on the Russian Soul

Considerations on the Russian Soul

In the context of the book Revolution and Counter-Revolution, we can ask: If there had been a counter-revolutionary tsar, what would his policies have been? First of all, he obviously would have converted to the Catholic Faith and had it established throughout Russia. Then, from the temporal perspective, he should have found … Read more

Marching for Life in New York City Stirs Controversy

Marching for Life in New York City Stirs Controversy

Ukraine is not the only victim in our times of war and turmoil. The unborn are the innocent victims in the United States, and we must defend them. Thus, on the feast of the Annunciation, March 25, 2022, members of the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property (TFP) … Read more