The Australian Bureau of Statistics last week released data from the 2021 Census, revealing how the number of Australians who are not religious has increased further. In 1971, 87 per cent of Australians identified as religious, and overwhelmingly as Christian. Now it’s 54 per cent. What is more, only five years ago, 52 per cent… Read more
Culture
Cardinal George Pell Urges Vatican to Admonish Pro-Gay Bishops
ROME — Australian Cardinal George Pell has called on the Vatican’s doctrinal office (CDF) to reprimand two outspoken bishops for their rejection of Church teaching regarding homosexuality. In a statement released by his office on Tuesday, Cardinal Pell urged the CDF to “intervene and pronounce judgment” on the public position taken by Jesuit Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, president… Read more
Archbishop Decries New Paganism Whose ‘Sacrament’ Is Abortion
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone has denounced an aggressive, ant-Christian secularism whose “blessed sacrament” is abortion. In a speech this weekend for the annual March for Life published Monday by the National Catholic Register, Archbishop Cordileone warned of a new pagan religion that takes the form of “a hyper-aggressive, anti-Christian kind of a secularism.” “This is all around us nowadays,… Read more
Priestesses in the Church?
by C.S. Lewis [Originally published under the title “Notes on the Way,” in Time and Tide, Vol. XXIX (August 14, 1948), it was subsequently reprinted with the above title in the posthumous God in the Dock book, published by Wiilliam B. Erdmanns, Grand Rapids, MI). “I should like Balls infinitely better,” said Caroline Bingley, “if they were… Read more
Toxic Femininity
Facebook and Instagram removed posts advertising a bestselling book criticizing the “toxic femininity” and Marxist roots of radical feminism, claiming the posts violated the company’s “commerce policies,” the College Fix revealed Friday. The book in question — The Anti-Mary Exposed: Rescuing the Culture from Toxic Femininity — was written by Carrie Gress, PhD, a Catholic professor at Pontifex University and mother… Read more