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The Amazon Synod Is a Sign of the Times
The Synod of the Amazon is a sign of the times. So its Instrumentum laboris says. Who…
Historical Clarity and Today’s Catholic Contentions
One of the curiosities of the 21st-century Catholic debate is that many Catholic traditionalists (especially integralists) and…
Letters From the Synod–2019: #5
What Would John Paul II Have Said? Forty-one years ago today, the cardinal archbishop of Cracow, Karol…
Letters From the Synod–2019: #4
On Saturday, October 12, the Thomistic Institute at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (familiarly known…
Newman’s Shocking Faith
How was the interfaith meeting? As a person of faith—by which I mean that you can tick…
Letters From the Synod–2019: #3
THE NEO-COLONIALISM OF BISHOP KRÄUTLER There has been considerable venting about “neo-colonialism” in the first week of…
A New Saint on St. Stephen’s Green
Ireland has produced many saints, and John Henry Newman is the latest. Newman was not Irish, of…
Humble John Henry Newman
As a Protestant, I reject the theology of the canonization of saints. But as an admirer of…
What Kind of “Believers”?
This past June I was in the Munich area for four days, giving a public lecture on…
Letters From the Synod–2019: #2
THE TENSIONS OF A PONTIFICATE Formally opening Synod-2019 at Mass in the Papal Basilica of St. Peter…
Letters From the Synod-2019: #1
THE MANY MYSTERIES OF SYNOD-2019 Eighty years ago, on October 1, 1939, a month after the German…
On the Eve of the Amazon Synod
As leaders of the Catholic Church prepare to open the Amazon Synod on Sunday, the fundamental question…
The Model New Evangelization Bishop
Out on the Kansas plains, he was just turning 21 when the Second Vatican Council promulgated its…
The Dark Side of the Dallas Charter
As we approach John Henry Newman’s canonization as a saint of the Catholic Church, it is a…
A German Attack on Christ’s Lordship
Half a millennium after the Reformation, Germans are making trouble again for the Roman Church. This time,…
