Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
As a somewhat frequent participant in Catholic discussions on Twitter — I still refuse to call it đ, the dumbest rebranding of the 21st century — I’ve been seeing a ton of posts about the surge in Catholic converts. Apparently, the algorithms see what we like, and send more of the same our way! Many …
My Twitter — I refuse to call it đ — feed on Monday had been filled with complaints because His Holiness Pope Leo XIV held Mass yesterday at a diocesan church in Rome with, Heaven forfend! altar girls as well as altar boys. Some of the complaints were trivial, that the altar server on the …
Thatâs the part modern commentators miss when they wave away Balkan violence as âancient hatreds.â These werenât abstract grudges. They were lived systems. For centuries, the region was ruled by empires that never integrated their subjects into a shared civic identity. Catholic Croats looked west to Rome and Vienna. Orthodox Serbs looked east to Constantinople and Moscow. Muslim communities were tied to Ottoman structures. Religion wasnât just belief; it was citizenship, law, and survival. Identity was not optional. It was inherited like debt.
That the Roman Catholic Church, of which I am a proud member, supports far less restrictive transnational immigration is well known, and His Holiness Pope Leo XIV has been pushing hard on the subject. Thus, the following article comes as no surprise to me: UPDATE: ICE deported Minnesota church employee, surveilled parish during Mass, mayor …
The cited article below comes from The Irish Times, published in Dublin, and what passes for the only newspaper of record in that heavily Catholic country. Of course, that heavily Catholic country has also legalized homosexual marriage and prenatal infanticide, so . . . . Sunday, January 11, 2026, is in the calendar of …