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• Lenten Reflection: The Father of Lies... and the Triumph of Truth - by Cathy Pearson.
  As Lent is a season of spiritual warfare, it behooves us to know our enemy. Our enemy, as St. Paul tells us, is not flesh and blood, but spirit - "principalities and powers of darkness in high places" - troops whose leader St. Peter describes as a roaring lion in search of someone to devour. The warfare over our souls is not between good and evil as intellectual concepts, but between active personal wills - God who is pure love and the devil who is pure hatred. Read more... (Also available in PDF.)
  
  
• Otto von Habsburg - by Cathy Pearson.
  At 94, the "uncrowned emperor" and visionary architect of a reunified Europe carries on a thousand-year legacy of Catholic political leadership. Read more...
  
  
• ITV Monthly Column: Status Ecclesiae by John Mallon - Political Prisoners in the Womb (June-July/06)
  The international human rights organization Amnesty International (AI) is considering declaring abortion an international human right, abandoning the neutral position they have long held. If they do so they will be joining the long list of enemies of the Catholic Church, perhaps their greatest ally in the realm of defense of human rights. Amnesty International has asked for comments from their membership about whether to take this fateful leap. Reports say a decision will be made at the end of 2006 or at the group's annual meeting in 2007. Read more...

  ITV Monthly Column: Status Ecclesiae by John Mallon - Faith vs. Nonsense (May/06)
  Recently I was asked to write an article on the novel The Da Vinci Code. I hadn’t read it and had never really paid much attention to the controversy surrounding it, so I scanned the book as well as some Catholic books written in response to it. I interviewed the authors of The Da Vinci Hoax, Carl Olson and Sandra Miesel (Ignatius Press), asking them the questions I had about it. (I strongly recommend their book to anyone with questions about The Da Vinci Code phenomenon.) Read more...

• ITV Monthly Column: Status Ecclesiae by John Mallon - The Primacy of Jesus, the Primacy of Love (April/06)
  One of the most poignant misunderstandings about the Catholic Church in our time is the perception that it is primarily a moral system—a bunch of rules. The expression “Catholic guilt” is a commonplace cliché among many Catholics. Rules make little sense without some kind of understanding which provides a motivation to live within those rules. Read more...

• ITV Monthly Column: Status Ecclesiae by John Mallon - When Catholics Behave Badly (March/06)
  Some expressed surprise that Pope Benedict XVI’s first encyclical, made public on January 25, should have been about love. Benedict was the prefect for the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith before his election, and so was often tagged as a theological “enforcer,” harsh and cold, having to rain on the parades of silly theologians. It is unfortunate how people often get confused with their jobs. For 25 years, many were blind to the gentle priest Joseph Ratzinger was and is. Read more...

• ITV Monthly Column: Status Ecclesiae by John Mallon - 33 Years: The different dimension of Political Correctness (Feb./06)
  Political Correctness exists to support the Culture of Death. It exists to run interference for the Culture of Death and introduce red herrings wherever necessary whenever the discussion starts to approach the truth. Read more...

• The "Siri Thesis" Unravels (Feb./06)
  In our confusing times, many otherwise faithful traditional Catholics have denounced and broken with "conciliar Rome," including the "conciliar Popes." But that has not ended the confusion... Read more...

• ITV Monthly Column: Status Ecclesiae by John Mallon - The Obedience Test (Jan./06)
  Three significant movements have swept through the Church since the Second Vatican Council, all of which have been sources of great blessing and sometimes confusion, with, on occasion, some devotees mistakenly making themselves a Magisterium unto themselves. Most of them outgrow this error. Read more...

• ITV Monthly Column: Status Ecclesiae by John Mallon - Lay Mendicants (Dec./05)
  In the past few months, I have seen numerous appeals from very worthy Catholic apostolates saying that if they didn't raise a certain amount of money soon they would have to severely cut back their activities or even close down. Read more...

• Conscience and the Dictatorship of Relativism - Of the modern thought which claims to set people free but actually enslaves them by John Mallon
  An American professor of law and ethics writes an article in a prestigious medical journal calling for laws restricting the rights of medical professionals to follow their consciences, and testifies before a U.S. Senate committee to the same effect. Is this an example of the “dictatorship of relativism” warned about by Cardinal Ratzinger the day before he was elected Pope Benedict XVI? Our contributing editor provides an analysis... Read more...

• ITV Monthly Column: Status Ecclesiae by John Mallon - “Gay” Priest: An Oxymoron (Nov./05)
  The Rev. Gerald Chojnacki, SJ, head of the New York Province of the Society of Jesus, is unhappy. According to a recent Associated Press report on a forthcoming Vatican document (expected in November) which will reiterate the Church’s teaching that “gay” seminarians should not be ordained priests, Chojnacki, in a September 26 letter to the Jesuits of his province, said he is asking bishops to tell Vatican officials who are drafting the policy “of the great harm this will cause many good priests and the Catholic faithful.” Read more...

• ITV Monthly Column: Status Ecclesiae by John Mallon - Jesus “Über Alles”: Has Germany Finally Found Redemption from its Past? (Oct./05)
  We are all well aware of the evil that emerged from our homeland during the Twentieth Century, and we acknowledge it with shame and suffering. During these days, thanks be to God, it has become quite evident that there was and is another Germany, a land of singular human, cultural and spiritual resources. I hope and pray that these resources, thanks, not least, to the events of recent days, may once more spread throughout the world! Now young people from all over the world can return home enriched by their contacts and their experiences of dialogue and fellowship in the different regions of our homeland. I am certain that their stay, marked by their youthful enthusiasm, will remain as a pleasant memory with the people who have offered them such generous hospitality, and that it will also be a sign of hope for Germany. Indeed one can say that during these days Germany has been the centre of the Catholic world. Read more...

• ITV Monthly Column: Status Ecclesiae by John Mallon - How Bishops Discourage Vocations (and the Key to Attracting Them) (Aug./Sept. 2005)
  In the mid 1990s, I attended a clergy meeting in the diocese where I was employed as the newspaper editor. The meeting was to discuss ideas to increase vocations to the priesthood, because the diocese was facing a crisis. Predictably, the discussion was going nowhere until the retired archbishop raised his hand, stood up and said, “Why don’t we study those dioceses which are attracting vocations, like Lincoln, Nebraska, and Arlington, Virginia, and see what they are doing and what we can learn from that.” I smiled to myself, eager to see the response to his suggestion, because I knew that the reason those dioceses were attracting so many vocations would be utterly unacceptable to this group of priests. Read more...

• ITV Monthly Column: Status Ecclesiae by John Mallon - Lieber Bruder Joseph, Beloved Benedict (July 2005)
  Everyone in the Church who loved John Paul II and what he stood for also loves Joseph Ratzinger. For them (us) the news of Cardinal Ratzinger’s being elected Pope Benedict XVI was almost too good to be true, bringing tears of joy and relief and gratitude to God. Read more...

• "Winning the War over Pius XII" by Karol Jozef Gajewski - A Review of The Pius War: Responses to the Critics of Pius XII, edited by Joseph Bottum and David G. Dalin (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books) Read more...

• ITV Monthly Column: Status Ecclesiae by John Mallon - Totus Tuus: The Source of John Paul's Greatness (April 2005)
  Somewhere around September, 1919, God created an extraordinary soul who would be named Karol Wojtyla. By the time he was 20 he was alone in the world, his immediate family had all died, and the Nazis had marched into his homeland, and set up Auschwitz, the most notorious killing center the world had ever known, 20 miles from his hometown. Read more...

• The Power and the Glory of Mel Gibson’s "The Passion of the Christ"
  Dr. Robert Moynihan, editor of Inside the Vatican magazine, describes his feelings while watching the screening of Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" in Rome. Read more...

• The Return of the King
  Dr. Robert Moynihan, editor of Inside the Vatican magazine, discusses the place of Jesus in democracy and politics. Read more...

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