Karl Rahner: An Appreciation and Critique

by Robert P. Imbelli

As in all authentic discernment, one comes to recognize both light and shadow. Only thus can one learn and move forward. Continue Reading »

11 Jul 2016 0

The Reformation, a Tragic Necessity

by Timothy George

The tragic side of the Reformation is obvious to those who care deeply about the unity of the church and who feel keenly the dys-evangelical impact of a fractured Christian community and its muted witness in our world today. Continue Reading »

11 Jul 2016 0

The Irrelevance of Hillary’s Peccadilloes

by R. R. Reno

In other circumstances, the bad odor of the Clintons would be off-putting. But our leadership class has just received a shock: They have become aware that their consensus isn’t as widely shared as they imagined. Continue Reading »

8 Jul 2016 0

St. John the Wonderworker

by Wesley J. Smith

This September, the Roman Catholic Church will canonize Mother Teresa, the great nun and humanitarian, in a vivid reminder that saintliness continues in our contemporary world. Less well known in the West—and unknown to me before I converted to Eastern Orthodoxy—are the many Orthodox saints who demonstrate the same truth. Continue Reading »

8 Jul 2016 0

Jews of Silence

by Shalom Carmy

When I think of the generation of survivors—not only of the horror they endured during the Holocaust and its recollection, not only of the nobility or heroism many of them achieved, but of the virtually impossible small and great steps they were compelled to make to rehabilitate their lives and ours—it is Wiesel’s voice that underlies and often amplifies theirs. Continue Reading »

8 Jul 2016 0

To Save Religious Liberty, Focus on Media Ecology

by Pete Spiliakos

The people who take an active interest in religious-liberty controversies are many, but they are also a minority. And they are a minority that faces hostility from America’s media and lawyer elites. If that minority cannot appeal to the apolitical majority, it will lose. Continue Reading »

7 Jul 2016 0

A Blessedly Unpredictable Council

by Cyril Hovorun

The Council at Crete turned out to be different from what both optimists and pessimists had expected. It did not resemble any icon of the Ecumenical Councils that we usually imagine. It was a council with a lot of pain and anxiety, before and during the event. But it was a true conciliar event. Continue Reading »

7 Jul 2016 0

On Not Settling for Mediocrity

by George Weigel

That summons to strive for heroic virtue—don’t settle for second-best; no matter what others ask of you, ask the best of yourself—was one facet of John Paul II’s remarkably magnetic appeal for young people. Continue Reading »

6 Jul 2016 0

“We Know that We Are Going To Be Killed”

by Fr. Douglas Bazi and Jonathan Coppage

An interview with an Iraqi priest. Continue Reading »

5 Jul 2016 0

Healing Memories through Divine Mercy

by William Doino Jr.

Remembering God’s Mercy draws upon Holy Scripture and the great Catholic spiritual masters—particularly Jesuit saints such as Ignatius of Loyola and Peter Faber—to discuss painful memories through the lens of Christ’s Passion. Continue Reading »

4 Jul 2016 0