Monthly Archive: December 2020
On Christmas Day, Jorge Bergoglio (stage name, “Francis”) delivered an Urbi et Orbi message and, as has been his custom since 2013, it was music to humanist ears. Throughout the text of roughly 1,400 words, he invoked the theme of human fraternity more …
On December 14, the USCCB (most accurately known as the United States Conference of Conciliar Bishops) issued a wide-ranging statement on COVID vaccines. The statement is cosigned by Bishop Kevin Rhoades, Chairman of the Committee on Doctrine, and Archbishop Joseph Naumann, Chairman of …
Let us not join the ranks of the humorless, even though 2020 has given us every possible reason to do so.
Reaction from around the world to the Vatican’s 2020 Nativity Scene was swift and highly critical. Conservative Catholics largely attached to the Novus Ordo rite (when government officials magnanimously allow them to attend) were among the most vocal. So-called traditionalists, by contrast, were …
On November 19, the U.S. District of the SSPX published a controversial article entitled, Can a Catholic in Good Conscience Receive a Coronavirus Vaccine? In a post dated November 23, I suggested that the SSPX article seemed more like a COVID vaccine sales …
