Thanks to the speech by RFK Jr, healthy eating is in the news today. But oddly enough, Leila and i had already recorded our weekly podcast, with that issue front and center. Leila explains one factor that everyone is neglecting: the mother who prepares all that good food. (And

Natural piety, then, gives rise to an appreciation for what our ancestors have left us. We may come to criticize some things that they did, and we certainly expect to make some improvements. But our default assumption is that they knew what they were doing.

New Vatican document uses “B.C.E.”Instead of “B.C.” vatican.va/content/france…

Does Pope Francis take a balanced view on migration? No. Does he ignore the rights of nations to protect their own borders, their citizens, and their cultures? Yes. But to keep things in perspective, what he said at his audience today— that to “repel migrants” is a “grave sin”—

Pope Francis could cool down the passions he has stirred, and advance the public debate, if he would convey— in full!— what the Catechism teaches on migration. catholicculture.org/commentary/gra…

There’s a reason why the Democrats (and their stooges in the legacy media) talk a lot about “joy” and not much about the issues in this campaign. Leila and I discuss that phenomenon— and the Zuckerberg censorship revelation, and St. Francis de Sales on nursing, and much more— in

Is your parish oscillating or pulsating rapidly? No. Nor should it. So why is the word “vibrant” invoked with such mind-numbing frequency to describe Catholic communities? catholicculture.org/commentary/no-…

This week on the Home Front, Leila and I discuss how Nature is a book of Revelation (and nursing mothers are a symbol of that Revelation). Then, switching gears, we ask the question that keeps troubling me: Why doesn’t Pope Francis celebrate Mass in public?

When a priest or a nun is asked when he or she began thinking seriously about a vocation, the answer is often disarmingly simple: when someone asked. catholicculture.org/commentary/voc…

I am sorry, but the analogy with abortion would be this: states were passing laws to make it illegal to hinder anyone from murdering an illegal immigrant.

I suppose you could look at the bright side: The Pope is finally saying that Kamala's stand on abortion is evil-- something he never said about Biden's stand, although it's identical.

Would Pope Francis even want to bring a runaway Synod back under control? catholicculture.org/commentary/thr…

Four years ago the world’s power elite promised to “build back better.” How’s that working out for you? The lockdown did flatten our economy— and make a handful of people even wealthier— but… Leila and I discuss that on our latest podcast. Then we add a bit of fact-checking

Edward Feser Francis must receive the Honorius treatment at some point. Either that, or someone needs to apologize to Honorius.