Books for Christmas 2021

by George Weigel

George Weigel recommends books for your Christmas shopping list. Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2021

Against Inevitable Adultery

by Dan Hitchens

Stephen Walford's Pope Francis, the Family and Divorce: In Defense of Truth and Mercy experiments with the idea that it is excessive to ask divorced-and-remarried couples to choose between receiving the Eucharist and having sex. Continue Reading »

6 Nov 2018

An Ambiguous Exhortation

by Dan Hitchens

The apostolic exhortation Gaudete et Exsultate, for all its strengths, adds to the ambiguities of Pope Francis’s papacy. Continue Reading »

12 Apr 2018

Conscience and Grace: A Lenten Meditation

by George Weigel

This Lent, examination of conscience should include some serious thinking about what “conscience” means. Continue Reading »

21 Feb 2018

The Decipherment of Cupich

by Basilides Melchischyros

Basilides Melchischyros offers thoughts on Blase Cardinal Cupich's recent elucidation of Amoris Laetitia.  Continue Reading »

20 Feb 2018

Development, or Corruption?

by Gerhard Ludwig Müller

Those embracing Amoris Laetitia should remember the difference between a real development of doctrine and what Cardinal Newman calls a corruption. Continue Reading »

20 Feb 2018

The Catholic Church Doesn’t Do “Paradigm Shifts”

by George Weigel

The evolution of the Church’s understanding of the gospel is not a matter of “paradigm shifts” or ruptures; it’s a question of development of doctrine.  Continue Reading »

31 Jan 2018

Mr. Fit Goes to Communion

by Dan Hitchens

The archdiocese of Braga, Portugal, now asks divorced-and-remarried Catholics to discern for themselves whether they should receive the Sacrament.  Continue Reading »

22 Jan 2018

As the Bard Might Say . . .

by George Weigel

Touchstone’s catalogue of evasion in Shakespeare's As You Like It closely parallels the statements made by defenders of Amoris Laetitia. Continue Reading »

15 Nov 2017

Is Pope Francis a Liberal Protestant?

by Gerald McDermott

Traditional Protestants, alarmed by Pope Francis's unorthodox statements, appreciate Fr. Thomas Weinandy's principled stand against Amoris Laetitia.   Continue Reading »

15 Nov 2017