The Two Popes: Baloney, Brilliantly Acted

by George Weigel

As history, the Netflix film The Two Popes is baloney on steroids. Continue Reading »

15 Jan 2020

The Martini Curve Revisited

by George Weigel

The local Churches that have tried hardest to play catch-up with “history” and “the times” are collapsing. Continue Reading »

8 Jan 2020

Two Popes, Too Many Untruths

by John Waters

As propaganda, The Two Popes is both hugely effective and extremely dangerous.  Continue Reading »

17 Dec 2019

Pope Francis and the American Bishops

by Philip Lawler

Archbishop Charles Chaput rose to decry any suggestion that the American bishops are at odds with Pope Francis at last week’s meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.  Continue Reading »

19 Nov 2019

The “Synodality” Masquerade

by George Weigel

Over the 50-plus years of its existence, no one has figured out how to make the Synod of Bishops really work.  Continue Reading »

13 Nov 2019

On Wounded Shepherds

by Francis X. Maier

A review of Austen Ivereigh’s latest book, Wounded Shepherd: Pope Francis and His Struggle to Convert the Catholic Church.  Continue Reading »

12 Nov 2019

Fearlessness and the American Bishops in Rome

by George Weigel

For all its faults, the Catholic Church in the United States lives the New Evangelization better than any other local Church in the developed world.  Continue Reading »

6 Nov 2019

The Dogmatic Principle

by R. R. Reno

Last month I made a pilgrimage to St. Mary’s Church, the university church at Oxford, when I was visiting that ancient city of dreaming spires. Ridley, Latimer, and Cranmer were tried and convicted there for Protestant heresy. But I did not have those men in mind. It was from the pulpit of St. . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2019

Reading the Signs of the Times

by Douglas Farrow

The Catholic Church has been reduced to propping up its own relevance as a “dialogue partner” to the world through whatever opportunity the age affords it. Continue Reading »

31 Oct 2019

A New Cardinal Honors an Entire Nation

by George Weigel

Sigitas Tamkevicius’s enrollment in the College of Cardinals was a papal tribute to a brave man who exemplifies the best the Society of Jesus offers the Church and the world. Continue Reading »

30 Oct 2019