Letters From the Synod–2019: #3
Edited by Xavier Rynne IIThe “neo-colonialism” of dumbed-down expectations compounded by the imposition of First World preoccupations on Third World societies has been evident at Synod-2019. Continue Reading »
A New Saint on St. Stephen's Green
by Dermot QuinnIreland needs a devotional revolution and the inspiration of John Henry Newman. Continue Reading »
Humble John Henry Newman
by Carl R. TruemanFor all of his intellectual brilliance, John Henry Newman had a humble concern for ordinary people. Continue Reading »
What Kind of “Believers”?
by George WeigelMuch of the Catholic Church in Germany is in a de facto state of schism. Continue Reading »
Letters From the Synod-2019: #1
Edited by Xavier Rynne IIThe Amazon Synod will expose theological and doctrinal tensions within Catholicism that have roiled the Church for the past half-century. Continue Reading »
The Dark Side of the Dallas Charter
by Thomas G. GuarinoThe Dallas Charter is a sterling example of poor theology resulting from good intentions. Continue Reading »
The Model New Evangelization Bishop
by George WeigelArchbishop Charles Joseph Chaput’s work has been a glowing embodiment of the “Church permanently in mission.” Continue Reading »
This Catholic Moment
by George WeigelThe current crisis in the global Church is not the worst crisis in Catholic history, but it is bad enough. Nor is it confined to the scandals of clerical sexual abuse and malfeasant Church leadership, though those scandals crystallize its meaning and implications. Today’s crisis must be properly . . . . Continue Reading »
Catholicism Made Me Protestant
by Onsi A. KamelLike all accounts of God’s faithfulness, mine begins with a genealogy. In the late seventeenth century, my mother’s Congregationalist ancestors journeyed to the New World to escape what they saw as England’s deadly compromise with Romanism. Centuries later, American Presbyterians converted my . . . . Continue Reading »
Spirituality of the Suburbs
by Julia YostObituaries for Toni Morrison, who died on August 5, remember her as a Nobel Prize–winning novelist, a black woman novelist, and the last great American novelist—never a Catholic novelist. Morrison converted to Catholicism at age twelve but stood aloof from the Church for years. Despite a few . . . . Continue Reading »
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