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The Outsourcing of Catholic Immigration Policy to Progressive Catholic Institutions
For decades, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops played an unmistakably political role in national immigration debates, issuing forceful policy statements, lobbying Congress, running public relations trips to the U.S.-Mexican border for bishops, and positioning its Migration and Refugee Services office as a progressive, often strident voice on immigration in
A Miraculous Story of Answered Prayers
Do I have some good news for you, Crisis readers! It’s a story of miraculously answered prayers, of which many of you played a direct part. And I’m beyond excited to tell you about it. Almost exactly five years ago, Sophia Institute, the parent organization of Crisis Magazine, graciously agreed to publish The Persecuted,
Liturgical Terrorism
“What is the difference between a liturgist and a terrorist? You can negotiate with a terrorist.” This slightly nasty joke exists in many languages, an indication of how the underlying issues are not limited to isolated pockets of the global Catholic Church. Similar jibes exist in other churches, mostly those
The Novel That Predicted Much of the Modern Papacy
I’m always leery of people who refer to writers as “prophetic.” For example, Yeats’ poem “The Second Coming,” which is indeed a great poem by perhaps the most widely-read poet of the 20th century, is often called a “prophecy.” But of what? I mean to say, if you predict something
Pope Leo XIV Warns Against Banality and ‘Fake News’
At the same time, he emphasized that the medium itself has also changed: television and, with it, all communication. Pope Leo XIV warned of the risks that go hand in hand with information in the digital age and urged journalists never to succumb “to the temptation of the trivial” or
Church Leaders Resist the White House
[embedded content] On this episode of Prayerful Posse, Raymond Arroyo, Father Gerald Murray, and Robert Royal examine Catholic leaders speaking out against the President on immigration, foreign policy, and even Greenland—asking whether bishops and cardinals are offering moral guidance or crossing into partisan politics. The Posse discusses Archbishop Timothy Broglio’s