Invoking John Paul the Great
by George WeigelLast month’s anniversary Mass was something of a grand recapitulation of the John Paul II years. Continue Reading »
Harrison Butker's Speech Wasn’t for Us
by Catherine Ruth PakalukWe’ve got to find ways to check our impulse to demand intimate language be sanitized. Continue Reading »
Unity in What?
by George WeigelSome Catholics are concerned about Church unity because of the diverse reactions to issues like the blessing of those in same-sex unions. Continue Reading »
A Mother’s Prayer
by Darren GeistThe foundation of the domestic church is marriage, and when I was baptized, my marriage was reborn as a sacrament—with all the graces that entails. Continue Reading »
Faithful Laity, More Priests
by Francis X. MaierThe Catholic Church needs more priests to help our lay ministries. Continue Reading »
Faithful Laity, More Priests
by Francis X. MaierThe Catholic Church needs more priests to help our lay ministries. Continue Reading »
Letters
by VariousMost of us that grew up in the peripheries don’t buy the central premise of this pontificate of making the Church less European. I agree with R. R. Reno’s assertions in “Rome’s Concordat” (March 2024) that this pontificate sounds like a focus group at the World Economic Forum or a DEI . . . . Continue Reading »
The Carthusians of Vermont
by Mark BauerleinIn a hollow just north of Bennington, Vermont, near the New York state line, nineteen monks at the Charterhouse of the Transfiguration live and die in seclusion. It’s the only Carthusian site in North America, a remote spot in the shadow of Mt. Equinox, highest peak in the Taconic Range. In 2005 . . . . Continue Reading »
Boundaries of Belief
by Edward FeserThe development of doctrine is a notion more frequently invoked than understood. When, as is too often done, a novelty or even a reversal of traditional Christian teaching is proposed as a “development,” the term is being abused. Indeed, it is being deployed to denote precisely the opposite of . . . . Continue Reading »
Hitler’s Second Coming
by R. R. RenoIt was surreal. President Biden began his State of the Union speech by invoking the Nazi threat. More than eighty years ago, Biden reminded us, Franklin Roosevelt rallied the nation, as “Hitler was on the march,” and “freedom and democracy were under assault.” Today, the president warned, . . . . Continue Reading »
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