The Lens of Holy Thursday
by Francis X. MaierIn an open letter to the German episcopate, 80 bishops voiced their strong concern over the direction of Germany’s “Synodal Path.” 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 »
Episcopal Coherence
by Thomas G. GuarinoThe bishops’ most urgent obligation is to achieve principled consistency—according to the canons of natural justice and Catholic doctrine—concerning the priesthood of Jesus Christ. Continue Reading »
The Bishops, Donatism, and President Biden
by George WeigelThe bishops are looking to clarify—with the final goal of healing and full communion—that the facilitation of abortion is a grave moral evil. Continue Reading »
The DeLauro Democrats and the Bishops
by George WeigelCatholics who reject the ancient Christian teaching on the grave moral evil of abortion and facilitate its practice are not in full communion with the Church. Continue Reading »
Collegiality and Eucharistic Integrity
by George WeigelThe bishops must work together to proclaim and uphold the truth that the Church is a eucharistic community. Continue Reading »
Somebody Needs To Be Dad
by Francis X. MaierThe extraordinary fact of Catholic life in the United States is not the few bishops who humiliate us so bitterly, but the many who do the job so well. Continue Reading »
Ever Ancient, Ever New
by Bryan KernsThe challenges rending the Church today are strikingly similar to those of centuries ago. Continue Reading »
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