A “Merciless Assault on Human Dignity”
by George WeigelIn Ontario today, doctors who decline to euthanize their patients are required to provide an “effective referral”: They are obliged, on pain of losing their license to practice, to send a troubled patient to a doctor of lighter conscience who will kill that patient. Cardinal Collins is fighting this abomination. Continue Reading »
The Troubling Legacy of Shūsaku Endō’s Silence
by Roy PeacheyShūsaku Endō’s Silence is now widely regarded as a modern classic. The initial reaction of Japanese Catholics, however, was largely hostile. Continue Reading »
Suffering and Silence
by J. D. FlynnSome Canadian bishops are failing the same test that caused Sebastian Rodrigues to stumble in Silence. Continue Reading »
Sin in a Time of Accompaniment
by Aaron TaylorIf we tried translating Verlaine’s spiritual writing into the language of accompaniment and integration, we would be exchanging great religious art for soulless bureaucratic jargon. Continue Reading »
No, Junior, the Catholic Church is not the Same as ISIS
by Br. Michael BaggotA seventh-grader recently asked me how to respond to his peer’s obstinate claim that he and the rest of his Catholic co-religionists are just as bad as ISIS. Continue Reading »
Why are Catholic Academics Supporting the Four Cardinals?
by Joseph ShawThe urgency of supporting the Four Cardinals arises from the objectively verifiable fact that the Church is in a state of complete confusion over some very fundamental issues. Continue Reading »
Chaplains of Death
by R. R. RenoA Canadian document shows cowardly bishops accommodating the culture of death and sanctioning a grotesque misuse of the sacraments. Continue Reading »
An Open Letter to Pope Francis
by John Finnis and Germain GrisezAmoris Laetitia is being misused to support errors against the Catholic faith. This letter asks Pope Francis to condemn those errors. Continue Reading »
How I Changed My Mind About Pope Francis
by Matthew SchmitzA pope who speaks with singular eloquence of our need to resist the technocratic logic of the “throwaway culture” seems bent on leading his Church to surrender to it. Continue Reading »
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