The Catholic Message Board

The CEOs of Walmart, Target, and Home Depot met privately with Trump on Monday and told him that although prices were steady at that moment, his trade policies could have devastating effects within just two weeks with supply chains disrupted, Axios reported. “This wasn’t about food. But he was told ...

Donald Trump has insisted his administration has no intention of playing “hard ball” with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping – or mentioning the coronavirus pandemic – in order to make a deal in the two nations’ ongoing trade war. I’m not going to mention Covid. I’m not going to say, ‘Oh, I’m going ...

Pilate's question is a dismissive rejection of the word of Jesus. The criterion for an authentic belief in Jesus is to be open to his word. Pilate fails because like before him in the story, especially "the Jews" he dismisses the word of Jesus. (Francis Moloney Belief in the Word).

Donald Trump’s tariff regime keeps getting less and less robust. In the latest backtrack from the Trump administration following the repeated warning of the markets to chill out a bit, the US Customs and Border Protection published guidance late Friday night that introduced new exemptions for smartp...

I am interested in your views on the short, medium and long term effects. Especially if reciprocal tariffs are imposed.

How do you people feel about this? President Donald Trump rolled out sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs Wednesday on trading partners and allies across the globe. Declaring that foreign trade practices have created a “national emergency,” the president unveiled a baseline 10% levy on all international im...

Former senior Canadian intelligence officials say Canada needs to be on the lookout for campaigns aimed at destabilizing the country amid U.S. President Donald Trump's escalating 51st state threats. And they told CBC News that the most potent weapon wielded by the Trump administration to advance the...

Just days after a stunning public clash with US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky today underscored that he wants to "make things right" with Trump and wanted to work under his "strong leadership" to secure a lasting peace in Ukrain...

Poland’s democracy hero Lech Wałęsa and dozens of other former political prisoners in Poland have written a letter to President Donald Trump, telling him that his treatment of Ukraine’s president at the Oval Office last week filled them “with horror and distaste.” Wałęsa, who served as president soo...

Fair call periginator.

As the Trump administration begins preliminary talks with Russian officials about ending the war in Ukraine, intelligence from the United States and close allies shows that Russian President Vladimir Putin still wants to control all of Ukraine, according to four Western intelligence officials and tw...

Putin & Trump are cut from the same cloth - nasty and evil bullies. Trump and his supporters can f*ck off. It is amazing that you think these kinds of childish insults and temper tantrums will either persuade anyone or prove yourself to be morally superior. You don't seem to realize that it is ...

Putin & Trump are cut from the same cloth - nasty and evil bullies.
Trump and his supporters can f*ck off.

Statement of Bishop Michael F. Burbidge on President Trump’s In Vitro Fertilization Executive Order: President Trump’s executive order “Expanding Access to In Vitro Fertilization” is a disappointing and unnecessary action. While the Church proclaims the dignity of all persons and affirms the truth t...

The Turnip: Vice President Vance appointed adjunct professor of theology at Franciscan University of Steubenville

The following statement was issued in response to action taken by the Trump Administration rescinding guidance related to "protected areas" in immigration enforcement. “Catholic health care, Catholic Charities agencies, and the Church’s other social service ministries work daily to feed, h...

My faith is based on public revelation i.e. the Scriptures, Tradition and Magisterium I read in particular the early Fathers and there is stream of authentic Catholic Christianity that continues for 2,000 years. Private revelation (approved or not) and objects like the Shroud neither increase or dec...

Pope Francis has named for the first time a woman, Sister Simona Brambilla, to head a dicastery of the Roman Curia, continuing to add to the number of women in leadership roles at the Vatican, a hallmark of his pontificate. The 59-year-old Brambilla, a member and former superior general of the Conso...