Theology
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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…
Houellebecq and the Death of Europe
Serotonin: A Novelby michel houellebecqfarrar, straus and giroux, 320 pages, $27 Europe is old, decrepit, and suffering…
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…
Beto’s Woke Integralism
In 2008, Barack Obama was well within the mainstream of American opinion when he said that “I believe…
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…
Ronald Reagan and The King’s College
Carol Swain, a former professor at Princeton and Vanderbilt, recently weighed in on a controversy at The…
The Triune Tangle
G. K. Chesterton writes somewhere that “the Christian has a Triune God, ‘a tangled trinity,’ which seems…
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…
Israel’s Political Mythology
Israel may be the land of the Hebrew Bible, but few expected the leader of Israel’s Arab…
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…
How Gay Rights Empower the Rich
The Supreme Court heard a group of cases yesterday that will require the justices to decide whether the…
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…
