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Peter Thiel: Benedict XVI ‘believed he was living in the end times’

The tech titan’s fascination with Pope Benedict’s views on the Antichrist and the end times is surprising given that he’s a Protestant who has acquired great wealth and is also in a homosexual ‘marriage.’

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Doug Mainwaring

• Jul 17, 2026

Notre Dame Right to Life pressures university to undo promotion of pro-abortion professor

Dr. Susan Ostermann, director of the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, has written that defending the sanctity of life is rooted in 'white supremacy' and 'racism.'

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LifeSiteNews staff

• Feb 5, 2026

Christian journal ‘First Things’ publishes mixed messages on homosexuality

The juxtaposition of competing moral messages in leading Catholic journal First Things reveals how deeply the sexual revolution has infiltrated conservative intellectual circles.

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Doug Mainwaring

• Jan 15, 2026

Scotland’s birth rate at its lowest since 1855, the year it started keeping records

Meanwhile, Scotland – like the rest of the United Kingdom – actually funds, with taxpayer dollars, both abortion and birth control.

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Jonathon Van Maren

• Aug 29, 2025Sep 1, 2025

Notre Dame provost says DEI ‘equally important’ as Catholic faith in hiring process

University of Notre Dame Provost John McGreevy told faculty that it is just as important to hire ‘women and underrepresented minorities’ as it is to hire Catholic faculty ‘deeply committed to our mission.’

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Stephen Kokx

• Feb 21, 2025Feb 21, 2025

Archbishop Chaput slams Pope’s ‘extraordinarily flawed’ comment that ‘every religion is a path to God’

Archbishop Charles Chaput said Pope Francis' religious pluralism comments are 'extraordinarily flawed' and 'drains martyrdom of its meaning.' The Pope has repeatedly made statements suggesting different religions lead to salvation.

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LifeSiteNews staff

• Sep 17, 2024Sep 17, 2024

Abp. Chaput: Fiducia Supplicans ‘a doubleminded exercise’ in ‘affirming and undercutting Catholic teaching’

'Deliberate or persistent ambiguity—anything that fuels misunderstanding or seems to leave an opening for objectively sinful behavior—is not of God,' Archbishop Emeritus of Philadelphia Charles J. Chaput said.

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Dorothy Cummings McLean

• Dec 22, 2023Dec 23, 2023

New pro-abortion legislation is unmasking the GOP’s pro-life sellouts

It is enlightening to discover who viewed pre-born lives as props to further their political or media careers and who genuinely believed in the sanctity of human life.

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Jonathon Van Maren

• Nov 14, 2023Nov 15, 2023

Cardinal Müller: Pope would ‘automatically’ lose his office by teaching heresy

‘The pope is the perennial principle and foundation of the unity of the Church,’ Cardinal Müller writes in a new essay for First Things. ‘But the Church is not centralized in him, as if he were the supreme leader of a totalitarian party.’

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Andreas Wailzer

• Oct 27, 2023Oct 27, 2023

Former Philly archbishop: Biden ‘not in full communion with the Catholic Church’

'By his actions during the course of his public life, Mr. Biden has demonstrated that he is not in full communion with the Catholic Church,' wrote Archbishop Charles Chaput.

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Calvin Freiburger

• Dec 4, 2020Jun 18, 2021

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Peter Thiel: Benedict XVI ‘believed he was living in the end times’

Notre Dame Right to Life pressures university to undo promotion of pro-abortion professor

Christian journal ‘First Things’ publishes mixed messages on homosexuality

Scotland’s birth rate at its lowest since 1855, the year it started keeping records

Notre Dame provost says DEI ‘equally important’ as Catholic faith in hiring process

Archbishop Chaput slams Pope’s ‘extraordinarily flawed’ comment that ‘every religion is a path to God’

Abp. Chaput: Fiducia Supplicans ‘a doubleminded exercise’ in ‘affirming and undercutting Catholic teaching’

New pro-abortion legislation is unmasking the GOP’s pro-life sellouts

Cardinal Müller: Pope would ‘automatically’ lose his office by teaching heresy

Former Philly archbishop: Biden ‘not in full communion with the Catholic Church’