Catholicism
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Crossing the Threshold of Hope After Thirty Years
On October 20, 1994, something unprecedented in the modern history of the papacy took place: The reigning…
Catholic Theology After Rahner
Principles of Catholic Theology, Book 3: On God, Trinity, Creation, and Christ, by Thomas Joseph White, O.P.,…
LETTERS FROM THE SYNOD – 2024: #7
In 1827 or thereabouts, Felix Mendelssohn attended G. W. F. Hegel’s lectures on aesthetics at the University…
LETTERS FROM THE SYNOD – 2024: #6
Special Newman Mini-Edition As Synod-2024 completes its second week under the relentless pressures imposed by the Synod…
LETTERS FROM THE SYNOD – 2024: #5
Imagine that, in 1939, there were synods of the sort meeting now. Imagine further that Synod-1939 had…
LETTERS FROM THE SYNOD – 2024: #4
Synod-2024’s Instrumentum Laboris expresses considerable concern about the roles of women in the Catholic Church of the…
LETTERS FROM THE SYNOD – 2024: #3
Special Diaconate Issue The Synod’s October 2 afternoon working session was devoted to a lengthy series of…
LETTERS FROM THE SYNOD – 2024: #2
The Church’s One Foundation by Robert P. Imbelli A critique repeatedly voiced in discussions over “synodality” is…
The Campus Ministry Boom
In his senior year of high school, Chris faced a spiritual crisis. He’d grabbed his brass ring:…
You Better Believe It
Crisis of Confidence: Reclaiming the Historic Faith in a Culture Consumed with Individualism and Identityby carl r.…
The Infernal Synod on Synodality
As the three-year synodal process on synodality for a synodal Church limps into its final three weeks…
Rome, the SCV, and Accountability
Speaking to a parish gathering of Catholic families several years ago, I concluded with the following remarks:…
Keeping (or Making) Catholic Education Great
According to the Vatican yearbook, the Annuario Pontificio, there are north of five thousand Catholic bishops in…
Women and the Catholic Novel
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Haley Stewart joins in…
Books That Should Be Assigned Reading in Catholic Schools
Catholic schools aren’t Catholic enough. One often hears the complaint, and I believe that it applies to most…