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
Although Georgetown University is the oldest Catholic university in America, many of its students and faculty members are at odds with Church teaching. When TFP Student Action volunteers visited the Jesuit campus on April 4, 2022, to defend family values, they met a mob of unruly students who attempted to kick them … Read more
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
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
Russia is stalled in a war in Ukraine that has humiliated the nation’s military. There is no link between reality and the Russian propaganda videos that show a formidable fighting machine capable of conquering the world. Russia struggles to take over its smaller neighbor with roughly one-third of its population. On paper, … Read more
In a polarized country, when one side enthusiastically supports an issue, the rule of thumb for the other side is to take the opposite position. However, when two enemies suddenly find themselves in the same foxhole, it naturally raises the question: Is something wrong? This is the case regarding Ukraine. Conservatives who … Read more
In the summer of 1948, Joseph Stalin decided to suffocate West Berlin by cutting off the rails and roads that carried food and fuel to the isolated city in the middle of East Germany. In response, the U.S. Air Force supplied the besieged city by air. This arduous task required that an … Read more
On many American college campuses, the most potent administrators are connected to the three words “diversity, equity and inclusion” (DEI). According to a study done by The Heritage Foundation, “The promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) on college campuses has become a central concern of higher education.” Not only are the … Read more
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
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