Xavier Rynne II

At Synod-2019, some are mounting another assault on the Catholic practice of admitting only men to Holy Orders.  Continue Reading »

The conversation at Synod-2019 drinks more deeply from the wells of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Margaret Mead than from the living waters of biblical revelation.  Continue Reading »

A lot of the ideas dominating the synod’s first ten days seem to have been exported from western Europe—including an almost apocalyptic concern for “Mother/Sister Earth,” and a consequent squeamishness about proposing Jesus Christ as Lord and Redeemer. Continue Reading »

We honor the memory of John Henry Newman, this newest of God’s saints, by imitating his courage, and the conviction that underwrote it.  Continue Reading »

The “neo-colonialism” of dumbed-down expectations compounded by the imposition of First World preoccupations on Third World societies has been evident at Synod-2019. Continue Reading »

Catholics are growing dispirited by a Church that increasingly presents itself as a global NGO whose primary concerns are political rather than spiritual.  Continue Reading »

The Amazon Synod will expose theological and doctrinal tensions within Catholicism that have roiled the Church for the past half-century. Continue Reading »

The sixth in a series of reports from the Vatican’s meeting on the sexual abuse crisis.   Continue Reading »

The fifth in a series of reports from the Vatican’s meeting on the sexual abuse crisis.  Continue Reading »

The fourth in a series of reports from the Vatican’s meeting on the sexual abuse crisis. Continue Reading »