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By H. W. Crocker III, Crisis Magazine - According to the extraordinary research of Dr. Ryan Burge, Catholic seminaries are producing the most orthodox seminarians in living memory. Of priests ordained between 1965 and 1969—graduating in the immediate post-Vatican II world—68 percent described themselves as theologically progressive, and only 16 percent described themselves as theologically conservative. In every subsequent four-year period, however, those numbers shift—and always in the same direction. Of priests ordained since 2020, two percent describe themselves as theologically progressive and 84 percent describe themselves as theologically conservative.

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet, Human Life International - On May 8, Päivi Räsänen, a Christian Finnish parliamentarian and former Minister of the Interior, announced that she will take her case to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. This follows seven years of police investigations, two unanimous acquittals overturned by the state, and finally a 3-2 conviction by Finland’s Supreme Court this past March under a statute on “war crimes and crimes against humanity.”... Her offense? Authoring a 2004 pamphlet for her Lutheran congregation, titled Male and Female He Created Them ....