Theology
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Demon of Disunity
Some demons are particularly noxious. The only antidote that gets rid of them is prayer. Jesus makes this…
LETTERS FROM THE SYNOD-2019: #7
The synods of 2014 and 2015, called to examine the grave challenges posed to marriage and family…
Poland Polarized
In the recent Polish election, the conservative Law and Justice party (PiS) received 43.59 percent of the…
Letters From the Synod-2019: #6
“Guests” on Planet Earth? At a gathering of like-minded scribes and media commentators shortly after Synod-2019 began,…
Human Dignity Redefined
In revolutionary countries you expect to find desecration: churches turned into lavatories or reformatories, their sanctuaries wrecked…
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…
