George Weigel, a prominent Catholic theologian, wrote an article earlier this month for First Things, a leading journal of religion and public life, to convey his growing disquiet about far-right influencer Candace Owens’ reception into full communion with the Catholic Church. Owens received the sacrament of Baptism in 2024, at London’s venerable Brompton Oratory, followed by the sacrament of Confirmation in a traditional Latin rite in Rome in April, 2026. Weigel (delicately) worries that she may not have been suitably prepared for these occasions in that she is “a conspiracy-theory propagandist whose most fevered rants are anti-Semitic in both tone...
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