Catholicism
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Paul VI and the Canonization of Vatican II
On October 14, 2018, Pope Francis will canonize Pope Paul VI as the 82nd saint among the…
Letters From the Synod-2018: #8
COMMENTARY ANNOUNCING THE GOOD NEWS, URGENTLY The last decade of the pontificate of Pope Paul…
Letters From the Synod-2018: #7
COMMENTARY SOME RESPONSES TO THE FIRST REPORTS OF THE SYNOD’S DISCUSSION GROUPS On October 9, the Vatican…
Steve Bannon’s European Movement
Is Europe’s new populist movement exclusively a rightwing phenomenon, or does it seek to unite anti-establishment forces…
The Catholic Crisis, In Perspective
Perspective is at least as important when reading the signs of the times as it is in…
Letters From the Synod-2018: #6
COMMENTARY The Kavanaugh Battle, the Synod, and the Vocation of Public Service These are not easy days to…
Letters From the Synod-2018: #5
COMMENTARY Revisiting “Realities and Ideas” “Realities are greater than ideas” has become one of the signature phrases…
Letters From the Synod-2018: #4
COMMENTARY SOPHIE SCHOLL, JOHN HENRY NEWMAN, AND THE SYNOD It would be interesting to know how many of…
Letters From the Synod-2018: #3
COMMENTARY ON IMPROVING THE SYNOD’S INSTRUMENTUM LABORIS: PART TWO In yesterday’s Letter, your editor offered several suggestions…
Theological Deplorables
Presumably out of deference to the current pontificate, almost nobody is saying something that is obvious and…
Letters From the Synod-2018: #2
COMMENTARY IMPROVING THE 2018 INSTRUMENTUM LABORIS: PART ONE Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, secretary general of the Synod of…
Courage in the Slough of Despond
I never took a class from the historian Frank Orlando, but the motto he placed in the…
Letters From the Synod-2018: #1
As the Synod Opens…. Rome is putting on its best autumnal face as Synod-2018 opens. The days…
The Papal Foundation & McCarrick’s Conflict of Interest
On July 28, 2018 the Vatican announced that Pope Francis had accepted Archbishop Theodore McCarrick’s resignation from…
The Synod on Youth: An Exchange
On September 21, Archbishop of Philadelphia Charles J. Chaput presented a critique of the Instrumentum Laboris for the…
