Xavier Rynne II

As the Synod proceeds, watch for the false binary of opposition between doctrine and pastoral praxis.  Continue Reading »

No criteria have been provided for adjudicating between voices that are genuinely grounded in the faith and those that are grounded in a different spirit. Continue Reading »

Let us pray for those who have forsaken revealed religion for human wisdom and now follow a blind path into the darkness of indifferentism and unbelief. Continue Reading »

The basic sociological fact of Christianity in the late-modern world is that the Christian communities that have offered the Rogerian Christ are moribund or dying. Continue Reading »

Authentically Christian accompaniment has a direction and destination, namely, Jesus Christ.  Continue Reading »

In this absurdly busy, confused, and grasping world theater of conflicting messages on the meaning of life, and amidst direct affronts to the dignity of life and women, God is with us. Continue Reading »

Holiness is that which is essentially divine, categorically unlike any quality, even the loveliest, extant in creation.  Continue Reading »

In order for the Church to advance her noble mission in the world, she remains in continuous need of deeply learned, faithful, and innovative leaders, within the Church and throughout the wider culture. Continue Reading »

The question of whether the Church has the authority to ordain women to the diaconate, as the diaconate is understood according to the ancient tradition of the Church, would seem to be a non-question. Continue Reading »

The Church as a culture must be a counterculture. Continue Reading »