Philip Lawler
@PhilLawler
Founder of Catholic World News; Author of Lost Shepherd. Married to @_Leila.
The Globe isn't really a newspaper; it's a propaganda machine. You read it to find out what you're allowed to say in fashionable company. It turns out "conscience" is an unwelcome word.
No one reads the @BostonGlobe, but here we have textbook propaganda for legislation to take away parental rights (or, as the spokesman for pharma oh sorry the author puts it, "scrap religious exemptions" as if such things are a pile of junk) bostonglobe.com/2025/06/22/met…
Confirming latest reports: Respected canon-law expert Ed Peters has also been sacked by Archbishop Weisenburger.
The abrupt dismissal of Ralph Martin and Eduardo Echeverria was shocking in itself. But there is more. catholicculture.org/commentary/arc…
"The release of this sort of information would shatter any vestigial confidence in the Vatican’s integrity in financial affairs." pflawler.substack.com/p/the-vatican-…
Yes, other bishops should protest this outrage. But based on past experiences, ...
Completely outrageous. Fired!!! Clearly throwing down the gauntlet. Not asked to retire or resign but fired. Their record for serving the Church has been exemplary. I pray that the bishops Martin has served so well will protest this.
Help is not on the way. catholicculture.org/news/headlines…
The just-war tradition provides a framework for intelligent discussion, in which we can sharpen our own moral reasoning while recognizing that other good and reasonable people might reach different conclusions. catholicculture.org/commentary/jus…
A brilliant commentary on Sunday's Gospel reading, from Rumer Godden, courtesy of Bishop Erik Varden: coramfratribus.com/words-on-the-w…
What will it take to persuade Vatican officials of the need for radical surgery to remove the cancer of corruption? catholicculture.org/commentary/thr…
No need to wonder why Vatican finances continue to spiral downward. How long, O Lord?
A priest jailed in Vatican City for possession and distribution of child pornography has returned to work in the Holy See’s diplomatic service. pillarcatholic.com/p/vatican-offi…
If you're looking for homespun wisdom, applied to current political and economic problems, you could do worse than Mike Rowe. Actually I'm not sure you could do better. x.com/mikeroweworks
Hey, @VaticanNews, stop blocking the ad orientem images of @Pontifex's mass -- this is ridiculous and pathetic.
This morning Pope Leo XIV offered the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass ad orientem for the Carabinieri in the Chapel of their station in the grounds of Apostolic Palace of Castel Gandolfo 📸: Vatican Media
Why not ignore Traditionis Custodes? The approach is tempting, but it wouldn't work pflawler.substack.com/p/why-pope-leo…
If the defunding of Planned Parenthood is not the most significant pro-life law ever,” what is? Frankly, the competition is not stiff. catholicculture.org/commentary/us-…
Tossing things from a crowd toward the Roman Pontiff is at best undignified, at worst dangerous. But the results are oddly revealing. catholicculture.org/commentary/thr…
In an American diocese, a bishop has dispensed illegal immigrants from attending Mass out of their ‘fear’ of being apprehended by ICE. But in Syria…
Christian youth have gathered to clean and restore the Church, which was bombed. Tonight, they are working tirelessly to remove all blood stains and debris, to prepare their church in time for tomorrow, mass which will be celebrated there for the first time since the attack.
An enlightening book in this regard is Christopher Caldwell's Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West. Caldwell reveals how Democratic Socialism has at its heart a settlement in the present, as if the kingdom is here on earth. It's no mistake…
“In many respects, democratic socialism was and is close to Catholic social doctrine and has, in any case, made a remarkable contribution to the formation of a social consciousness.” --- Pope Benedict XVI
Let’s hope that the bombing of Iran does indeed turn out to be a “one and done” operation. But even if it does, that does not mean it was morally unproblematic. “Preventive war and the U.S. attack on Iran,” at the blog: edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2025/06/preven…