Humility and the Host
by Fr. George W. RutlerThe practice of receiving communion in the hand often engenders disrespect for and indifference to the Host. Continue Reading »
Called to Eucharist
by Peter J. LeithartPartaking in the Eucharist orients us rightly to the whole realm of human making. Continue Reading »
The Two Faces of Amoris Laetitia
by Mats WahlbergTwo completely different—and logically incompatible—arguments in favor of communion for the divorced and remarried have figured in the synodal process that led up to Amoris Laetitia. Despite their incompatibility, both arguments can be found in Amoris itself, at least according to many of the document’s interpreters. Continue Reading »
Pope Francis’s Achilles Heel
by William Doino Jr.The pope’s deepest problems are the result of self-inflicted wounds. Continue Reading »
No Authority Over Divine Law
by J. D. FlynnThe norms for abstention on St. Patrick’s Day provide an important insight into the ongoing divide over Amoris Laetitia. Continue Reading »
Paul, Apollos, and Cephas, all Over Again
by George WeigelWe are living, today, the crisis of division that caused St. Paul such grief. And as the Church is universal, so is the crisis. 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 »
No Mystical Body on the Religious Right
by James R. RogersThe ecclesiology implicit in what Moore commends is a familiar one—even, arguably, a historical one for many Protestants. “Church” is here understood as an association of individuals who give mental assent to the same religious ideology. Continue Reading »
A Distinction without Discipline
by Dan HitchensIf Crosby’s reform were enacted, priests would have to judge the souls of their flock. The remarried would be divided into those whose lives have a Dostoevskian tragic resonance, and those who are merely “common adulteresses.” This cruel charade would collapse before it began. Continue Reading »
Catholics Face a Choice
by Matthew SchmitzWill Catholics uphold the Church's teaching that the divorced and remarried cannot be admitted to communion, or will they reject it? Pope Francis has brought this question before the Church, though he refuses to formulate it so starkly. Continue Reading »
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