PDF Button This week, I had the privilege of interviewing Fr. Chad Ripperger, superior of the Society of the Most Sorrowful Mother (aka Doloran Fathers) and world-renowned exorcist, about mental health and how to approach healing from a Thomistic perspective. Some of the questions we covered include: How does modern psychology’s understanding of man differ from what Fr. Ripperger calls “the Thomistic/realist understanding of man”? What is the nature of depression and how does one properly address it? What is a wound (in the psychological, emotional, and spiritual sense) and what is necessary ..read more

PDF Button On the eve of Holy Week this year, a controversy involving conservative commentator Candace Owens and The Daily Wire, which had been simmering for a few months prior, finally boiled over. Jeremy Boreing, co-founder and “lowercase god-king”[1] of the media company, announced via X (Twitter) on March 22 (Friday of Passion Week): “Daily Wire and Candace Owens have ended their relationship.” Less than an hour later, Owens confirmed the news by posting, “The rumors are true — I am finally free.” As someone who rarely pays attention to Daily Wire content, including Owens’ show, the news t ..read more

PDF Button Christ is risen! This past Monday, I enjoyed engaging in a friendly debate with Dr. Edmund Mazza on the subject of Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation. Many thanks to Mike from Restoring the Faith Media for hosting! As readers may know, Dr. Mazza has become known in recent years for championing the position the Benedict XVI did not validly resign the Petrine office due to what Canon Law calls “substantial error” (can. 188). Steven O’Reilly, author of Valid? The Resignation of Pope Benedict XVI (2022), accurately sums up the position in his book (p. 47): “Pope Benedict XVI held erroneo ..read more

PDF Button Today marks the seventh anniversary of John Vennari’s passing from this life (April 4, 2017), the man who led Catholic Family News as editor for over 20 years and impacted countless souls through his stalwart efforts. Anyone who knew John personally, even if only briefly, can testify to his deep love of Our Lord, Our Lady, and Holy Mother Church, as well as his dear family and friends. A faithful soldier of Jesus and Mary, John longed and worked tirelessly for the “complete restoration” promised by Our Lady at Quito (1600s) and Fatima (1917). In honor of John, who died on the same d ..read more

PDF Button April 2024 Edition Now Available — Preview HERE April 1, 2024 Easter Monday Dear Friends in Christ, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who according to His great mercy hath regenerated us unto a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead” (1 Pet. 1:3). Thus wrote St. Peter, the Prince of the Apostles, to the early Christians who were “dispersed” throughout Asia Minor (1 Pet. 1:1) and suffering various trials, including persecution “for the Name of Christ” (1 Pet. 4:14). To comfort them in their afflictions, he reminded them of their “in ..read more

PDF Button (Image: The Resurrection of Christ by Nicolas Bertin, c. 1710) “And in the end of the sabbath, when it began to dawn towards the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalen and the other Mary, to see the sepulchre. And behold there was a great earthquake. For an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and coming rolled back the stone and sat upon it. And his countenance was as lightning and his raiment as snow. And for fear of him, the guards were struck with terror, and became as dead men. And the angel answering, said to the women: Fear not you; for I know that you seek Jesus Who ..read more

PDF Button 139. The Victory of the Cross By Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D. 1. As soon as Jesus expired, “the veil of the Temple was torn in two … the earth quaked, the rocks were rent. And the graves were opened; and many bodies … arose,” so that those who were present were seized with a great fear and said: “Indeed this was the Son of God” (Matt. 27:51-54). Jesus willed to die in complete ignominy, accepting to the very end the mocking and ironic challenges of the soldiers, “If Thou be Christ, save Thyself” (Luke 23:39); but scarcely had He drawn His last breath, when His divinity r ..read more

PDF Button 137. The Gift of Love By Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D. 1. “Having loved His own … He loved them unto the end” (John 13:1), and in those last intimate hours spent in their midst, He wished to give them the greatest proof of His love. Those were hours of sweet intimacy, but also of most painful anguish. Judas had already set the price of the infamous sale; Peter was about to deny his Master; all of them within a short time would abandon Him. The institution of the Eucharist appeared then as the answer of Jesus to the treachery of men, as the greatest gift of His infinite lo ..read more

PDF Button On March 22, 2024, conservatives were sent into a maelstrom after a sudden post from Daily Wire CEO Jeremy Boreing announcing ominously that “Daily Wire and Candace Owens have ended their relationship.”1 The seeds of discord had been sown and nurtured in the preceding months, stemming from Owens’ escalating opposition to Israel’s martial endeavors in Gaza while simultaneously becoming oriented more towards overt Christianity and even Catholicism, her own husband’s creed. This all came to a head recently after a debate that Owens had with Rabbi Barclay, primarily surrounding whether ..read more

PDF Button Catholic Family News is pleased to publish the full translation of John of St. Thomas On the Deposition of a Pope in conjunction with an explanation of the text in our paper, courtesy of Father Albert, OP. But it is asked if in no matter whatever case of heresy and in no matter what way a pope is a heretic, whether he can be deposed ; or whether certain conditions are required without which heresy alone is not sufficient to depose a pope. The response is that a pope cannot be deposed, nor lose the papacy, unless two conditions concur, namely that the heresy not be occult but p ..read more