Dispiriting Signs for the Synod on Synodality

by Hans Feichtinger

Reform will only happen if the Church remembers that she exists because of Christ and “in order to evangelize,” as Paul VI said. Continue Reading »

26 Apr 2022

Why I Signed the Open Letter to Germany's Bishops

by Salvatore J. Cordileone

I hope and pray that the German bishops will listen to the Holy Father and their brother bishops and turn from their path of division.  Continue Reading »

14 Apr 2022

The Simplicity of Father Stu

by Francis X. Maier

It’s a gift to sit through a religiously-themed film today that leaves no taste of artificial sweetener in the mouth. And that’s why Father Stu should not be missed. Continue Reading »

12 Apr 2022

From Anglican to Catholic

by Michael Nazir-Ali

On September 29 last year, the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels, I was received into the Ordina­riate of the Catholic Church, which was established for Anglicans who desire full communion with the See of Peter, at Our Lady of the Assumption and St. Gregory Church in London. Since then, I have . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2022

Michael Nazir–Ali on Becoming Catholic

by R. R. Reno

Fr. Michael Nazir–Ali joins the podcast to discuss his conversion from Anglicanism to Catholicism. Continue Reading »

23 Mar 2022

The Life and Works of Huldrych Zwingli

by Mark Bauerlein

F. Bruce Gordon joins the podcast to discuss his book, Zwingli: God's Armed Prophet.  Continue Reading »

14 Mar 2022

The Conservative Genius of Catholicism

by Dan Hitchens

Those who claim that the Church has nothing to do except resist and condemn are mistaken; but they are less mistaken than those who think we should raise the gates and invite the enemy in.     Continue Reading »

11 Mar 2022

Alice von Hildebrand, Woman of Valor

by Mark Gottlieb

Let us not lose the opportunity to thank our maker for giving us the gift of Alice von Hildebrand, who arduously defended the truth through her formidable faculties of head and heart. Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2022

Sting in the Shadow of the Cross

by John Duggan

As his latest album demonstrates, a subset of Sting’s songs reverberates with the legacy of an urban English Catholic childhood of the 1950s and ’60s. Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2022

On the Threshold: Part II

by Patricia Snow

It was at this point, at the very end of the Church year, inspired by a tremulous confidence and the irresistible attraction of first love, that I established the habit of going to daily Mass. Every day at noon when the bells of St. Mary’s were ringing out the Angelus over New Haven, I drove into . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2022