A Pilgrimage to Taylor, Texas
by Samuel D. SamsonSt. Mary's story of revival could be replicated elsewhere. Continue Reading »
An Open Letter to the Synod General Secretary
by George WeigelThe new document by the USCCB in preparation for the 2021–2023 Synod on Synodality overlooks the surging vibrancy of Catholicism in America. Continue Reading »
The War of the Conciliar Succession, Continued
by George WeigelThe advocates of Catholic Lite, having lost the War of the Conciliar Succession theologically and needing a bogeyman to attack, now find it tactically useful to wildly exaggerate the number of conciliar rejectionists and their impact in the Church. Continue Reading »
Pope Francis Does Not Understand the American Church
by Jayd HenricksThe Holy Father says that he wants the Church to be a listening Church. If so, then he should be listening to a wide variety of voices in the U.S. before making claims that there are a significant number of Catholics in this country who reject Vatican II. Continue Reading »
Toward a New Pentecost
by Charles J. ChaputWhat the Church needs more than anything else is holiness. The renewal of the Church is not finally an issue of structures. It’s an issue of faith. Continue Reading »
American Jesuit
by Tony AbbottPaul Mankowski’s goal wasn’t to be lauded by his peers or to be personally fulfilled. It was to do his duty to God by selflessly serving an order that rarely hid its scorn for him. Continue Reading »
The Vatican’s Unread Newspaper and the U.S. Bishops
by George WeigelThe Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, claims that the USCCB has made no mention of prohibiting Communion to pro-abortion politicians. This simply is not true. Continue Reading »
Catholic Progressives and the Culture War
by George WeigelCatholics who take the texts of Vatican II seriously refuse to truckle to, and in fact resist, those cultural aggressors who think of human beings as mere twitching bundles of morally-equal desires. Continue Reading »
Bishops, Public Officials, and Holy Communion: Once Again
by George WeigelRevitalizing a eucharistic Church requires a new clarity among the people of the Church about the nature of the eucharistic community—and what actions estrange Catholics from it. Continue Reading »
Taking Sheen Seriously
by James M. PattersonFulton J. Sheen is defined in popular imagination by the persona he adopted on Life Is Worth Living, his Emmy-winning television program. During each episode, the telegenic bishop strode onstage in vestments and opened with a few jokes that introduced the evening’s topic. He headed to his . . . . Continue Reading »
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