In recent months, the word “tariff” seems to be on everyone’s lips. Those in favor of tariffs insist that the survival of America necessitates huge trade restrictions. Those in favor of free trade, on the other hand, often hold that widespread tariffs will inevitably lead to recession or even the next depression, as global supply chains delink across the globe.

New evidence has come to light that exposes major cracks in the foundation of Traditionis Custodes, Pope Francis’ 2021 decree that restricted the traditional Roman liturgy. This journalist has obtained the Vatican’s overall assessment of the consultation of bishops that was said to have “prompted” Pope Francis to revoke Summorum Pontificum, Benedict XVI’s 2007 apostolic letter liberalizing the vetus ordo, more commonly known as the “Traditional Latin Mass” and sacraments.

Last week marked ten years since the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges—the case that invalidated state laws defining marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife and required states to issue marriage licenses to same-sex partners. The decision had a stunning impact on American public opinion. Same-sex marriage, once rejected by a solid majority of Americans, became acceptable, for a while at least...

The calendar is full of saints whom we remember and celebrate for their piety, wisdom, courage, clarity of thought, charisma, and unflinching devotion to the Gospel. We have devotions to exemplars of the Christian life, and particular patrons of all sorts of things — just look at the current popularity of Carlo Acutis, a teenager who saw the Eucharist for exactly what it was with such enviable clarity.

Pope Leo XIV on Thursday called on governments and law enforcement agencies to focus their efforts on dismantling criminal organizations that profit from drug trafficking rather than punishing addicts. Speaking to anti-drug campaigners in a courtyard of the Apostolic Palace on the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking on June 26, the pope issued a sharp rebuke of drug policy that targets the poor while powerful traffickers go unpunished.

Advocates of Catholic marriage and the family are hoping that Pope Leo XIV intervenes to help parents protect their children in the face of new sex-education guidelines being imposed in a major German diocese that promote the LGBT agenda, including transvestitism and non-binary identities. They say the new guidelines are further proof of the abandonment of Catholic moral teaching...

Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-Kiun knew exactly what he was doing when he posted online a photo of himself leading a Eucharistic procession after saying a traditional Latin Mass in Hong Kong, and he is sending multiple messages with it, a friend of his told the Register. Among the intended recipients are Catholics in the Diocese of Hong Kong and Pope Leo XIV, who has yet to signal his intentions with respect to the Latin Mass...

A government-ordered euthanasia facility, operated by the British Columbia, Canada, government’s Vancouver Coastal Health Authority on the downtown campus of the Catholic-run St. Paul’s Hospital, is now fully operational.

It is not a book anyone would publish now. It’s an artifact from a bygone age. People don’t talk this way anymore: “Theologically, I’m afraid you have nothing to offer,” the Catholic wrote the Unitarian with whom she’d started exchanging letters on the differences between the two beliefs. Months later, after reading an official Unitarian booklet explaining the religion, she described Unitarianism as “like Diet-Rite cola: no calories, very little taste, and a throw-away bottle.”

For a decade or two, I have had a standard response on Twitter (now X) when conservatives celebrate something they see as a victory in the American public square. You know, we’re talking about things that let them jump on social media and say: “Man, we owned the libs on that one!” That’s when I type: “What does @NYTimes say?” Lots of folks respond with jabs like these...