Phyllis Zagano

Phyllis Zagano asks: Have you heard any U.S. bishops defending women against Kid Rock or Trump or Bad Bunny? Are they cowed into submission by the false notion that women do not image Christ?

There is a deep responsibility to unveil the cloud of falsehoods falling over government actions that disrespect life. The United States is in crisis. To quote President Trump's March for Life video message, "There's never been anything like it."

Magisterium AI's programmers and bots seem to look for documents it likes and to ignore those it does not.

In his first apostolic exhortation, Dilexi Te ("I have loved you"), Pope Leo XIV is clear: The love of money really is the root of all evils.

The Catholic right grants few, if any, nods to Catholic social teaching. Many righteous Catholics dismiss the preferential option for the poor (including immigrants) and the care of creation as "radical left politics."

President Donald Trump's assault on art and culture is only outdone by his debasement of his fellow humans, writes Phyllis Zagano.

The United States is beginning to look like a dictatorship seeking to divest itself of anyone who is poor and speaks Spanish. How a person reacts to the sight of armed, masked men assaulting immigrants in the United States defines a person’s character. Increasingly, the priority put on detaining people is defining the character of the government, if not the entire country. 

Anyone looking for a quick answer from Leo XIV will have to wait. He is very much a synodal man, and so the question of women deacons is open for the whole church to consider.

Francis' 12-year reign saw small steps advancing women in the church. We may not know for years what the aims of a new papacy will be.

The New Yorker magazine has managed to insult Christians and Jews alike with a cartoon depicting the Last Supper in an April issue, writes columnist Phyllis Zagano.

It was a close call, but Francis’ emergence from Gemelli Hospital ensures that implementation of the synod on synodality's goals will outlast him.

Vance and Trump seem confident in their grasp of Christian ethics, but don't be fooled by all the Catholics in the Cabinet. Their policies are destroying people's livelihoods and lives, and can't be supported by anyone.

While the pope is acting on his desire to include women in administrative positions in the church, he seems to have turned a deaf ear to calls for women in ministry. The stumbling block seems to be his view of women.

One can only wonder if Sri Lankan Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith has thought through the implications of not following the provisions of canon law that allow women and girls to assist at the altar, to be near the sacred.

The church depends on donations from nations whose better off have been educated on the baptismal equality of all persons.

Mock Catholic media outlets support Republican victories up and down the ballot, reporting only the ways Democratic policies digress from, not how they agree with, church teachings.

Must one vote for one or the other, as the pope suggests? Phyllis Zagano explores the basic question for both voters and bishops alike: Which team is more pro-life?

Phyllis Zagano writes: The Catholic Church is in a bad way when the Democratic Party in the United States brings more hope and joy to people — especially to women — than Pope Francis.

Phyllis Zagano said the comparison of Marko Ivan Rupnik's artwork to Caravaggio's falls short. And what message does keeping Rupnik's art on display send to female victims of sexual and spiritual abuse by clerics?