The advocates of Catholic Lite, having lost the War of the Conciliar Succession theologically and needing a bogeyman to attack, now find it tactically useful to wildly exaggerate the number of conciliar rejectionists and their impact in the Church. Continue Reading »
Not every student at a Catholic university needs to be a faithful Catholic, but the institution itself absolutely must be. Continue Reading »
Catholics who take the texts of Vatican II seriously refuse to truckle to, and in fact resist, those cultural aggressors who think of human beings as mere twitching bundles of morally-equal desires. Continue Reading »
No pontificate is well served when its promoters show contempt and belligerence toward perceived enemies. Continue Reading »
Is this liberal Catholicism’s big moment? In the Oval Office, a pro-abortion president sits with a photograph of the Holy Father displayed proudly over his left shoulder. In Germany, Europe’s most powerful bishops’ conference presses ahead with its “synodal path,” reassessing doctrine on . . . . Continue Reading »
An obituary for Belgian Catholicism, like that of the primate who presided over so much of its decline, is currently being written. Continue Reading »
The catty rhetoric of both Fr. James Martin and his conservative foes has resulted in more bridges being dynamited than built. Continue Reading »
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CATHOLICISMSA demographic question for Ross Douthat regarding his “A Crisis of Conservative Catholicism” (January): If liberal Catholicism is to be alive in twenty years, where will its members come from? Who will be not just self-identifying to pollsters but running its schools and its . . . . Continue Reading »
Let’s begin with a story. It’s one I’ve heard many times; it’s one I’ve told more than a few times myself. It’s a story about the Catholic Church in the second half of the twentieth century, and it goes something like this. Once, fifty years ago, there was an ecumenical council of the . . . . Continue Reading »
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