Catholicism

WARSAW. The temptation to ally the Church with a particular political party and its program is a…

COMMENTARY THE DRAFT FINAL REPORT: SOME FIRST OBSERVATIONS No one should envy the actual wordsmiths who had…

COMMENTARY A SYNOD ON CHASTITY? After more than two and a half weeks of speech-making and conversation,…

COMMENTARY PABLUM ISN’T GOSPEL        Cardinal Luis Antonio (“Chito”) Tagle, the archbishop of Manila, is…

COMMENTARY AT THE NAME OF JESUS In the mid-1970s a good number of Jesuit colleges, universities, and…

COMMENTARY WANTED: SERIOUS THEOLOGY AND PASTORAL CHALLENGE  RESPONSES TO THE SYNOD’S SECOND ROUND OF DISCUSSION-GROUP REPORTS On…

Pole that he was, Karol Wojtyła had a well developed sense of historical irony. So from his…

COMMENTARY NAMES GAMES Synods are unique bodies, but the Synod fathers can learn things from the experience…

COMMENTARY THE IMPORTANCE OF VOTING EARLY AND OFTEN (AS THEY SAY IN CHICAGO) Although some ambiguities remain…

COMMENTARY “I HAVE IT TO DO” Dean Gooderham Acheson, whom some consider the greatest Secretary of State…

On October 14, 2018, Pope Francis will canonize Pope Paul VI as the 82nd saint among the…

COMMENTARY       ANNOUNCING THE GOOD NEWS, URGENTLY The last decade of the pontificate of Pope Paul…

COMMENTARY SOME RESPONSES TO THE FIRST REPORTS OF THE SYNOD’S DISCUSSION GROUPS On October 9, the Vatican…

Is Europe’s new populist movement exclusively a rightwing phenomenon, or does it seek to unite anti-establishment forces…

Perspective is at least as important when reading the signs of the times as it is in…