Say goodbye to our Constitutional Republic and hello to the Holy American Empire. President Donald Trump has done it, and his nomination of Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court is the evidence! That’s the sentiment you have seen if you’ve read any of the mainstream media coverage of Donald Trump’s pick for the third…
With American Catholic membership at an all time low, it’s time to point out that, while “The gates of hell shall not prevail against the Church” (Matthew 16:18), we should be concerned with why so many Catholics are leaving the Church. Some attribute the dropping number of Catholics in America to being so well off…
Joshua Gill on April 19, 2019 Republish Reprint The Vatican uncovered the stairs that Jesus walked to face Pontius Pilate’s judgement, revealing the bare marble for the first time in 300 years. Pope Innocent XIII ordered that the Holy Stairs, or Scala Sancta, be covered with walnut planks in 1723 to protect the marble, but Vatican caretakersremoved…
Joshua Gill on April 21, 2019 Republish Reprint Terrorists killed more than 200 Catholic worshipers and tourists on Easter Sunday morning in Sri Lanka with coordinated bombing attacks on churches and hotels. The first explosion ripped through St. Sebastian’s Church in the city of Negombo at 8:45 a.m. local time during an Easter service, with deadly blasts…
Lynn Starkey, a guidance counselor at Roncalli High School, a Catholic school in Indianapolis Indiana has been fired from her job after a 39-year career because the school says her marriage to another woman is in breach of her contract. School officials say that Starkey’s contract will not be renewed for the 2019-2020 school year…
Joshua Gill on February 1, 2019 Texas Catholic dioceses released a list of 286 clerics “credibly accused” of sexual abuse in fulfillment of their October pledge to name the accused by January’s end. The list is comprised of data from 14 dioceses across Texas whose bishops pledged, in the wake of Pennsylvania’s grand jury report on clergy sex abuse,…
Defending the indefensible is a thankless and often fruitless task, especially where the court of public opinion is concerned. The court of public opinion exploded on social media when a group of students from the Kentucky Covington Catholic High School mocked Native American Nathan Phillips who was drumming, surrounding him and blocking his path while…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Conservative Catholic Group in Ferndale, Michigan Has the Constitutional Right to Worship as They See Fit by Lee Enochs The principle of religious liberty is embedded in the U.S. Constitution and is sacrosanct to most Americans. President Thomas Jefferson once said, “The Constitutional freedom of religion is the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Michael Bastasch Pope Francis gave President Donald Trump a copy of his encyclical that refers to Earth as an “immense pile of filth” and calls for phasing out fossil fuels to fight global warming. Francis gifted Trump with his 2015 letter “Laudato Si” during their half-hour meeting Wednesday, Bloomberg reported. The…
By Robert Donachie Two terrorists claiming ISIS affiliation killed a priest and seriously injured another person early Tuesday morning during Mass in northern France, reports the Wall Street Journal. The attackers were armed with knives and took five hostages, including a priest, in the town of Saint Etienne du Rouvray. French authorities found the priest, 84-year-old Jacques Hamel,…