Columns
Backwards and forwards
Some things change, some don’t, and it can be hard to know what to do about it. Wise sayings point in different directions: “[I] beseech [...]
Backwards and forwards
Columns
Some things change, some don’t, and it can be hard to know what to do about it. Wise sayings point in different directions: “[I] beseech you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to [...]
Distorting Mirrors
Books
As headlines daily remind us, antagonism towards Jews is the most enduring hatred in our world. The Lost Mirror: Jews and Conversos in Medieval Spain examines one segment of this phenomenon at the time that [...]
Analysis
On that Associated Press piece and the future of the Church in America
Tim Sullivan’s recent piece for the Associated Press on the state of the Church in America has made the rounds in Catholic circles, and it feels like a generally accurate snapshot of where things are and [...]
Features
We need some real perspective on AI and evangelization
A few years ago on YouTube, there was a brief and fascinating fad for “tensegrity tables.” Tensegrity is a portmanteau combining “tensional” and “integrity,” and refers to structures whose parts are held together by a [...]
Features
Bishops, borders, and the (bully) pulpit
“Texas Bishop Taking on Greg Abbott Gets Pope Francis’ Protection” is the curious title of an April 30th article in Newsweek. Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso needs “protection” from Greg Abbott? Are there Texas [...]
Books
Why did a priest write a novel about the Mafia, Confession, and Providence?
Art can be a tremendously effective means of communicating theological truths. We have seen this over the centuries and across millennia, and it is no less true today. In recent years, there has been a [...]
Features
Napa Institute Summer Conference 2024 to focus on “What it Means to be Human”
The 14th annual Napa Institute Summer Conference will be held at The Meritage Resort and Spa in Napa, California, from July 24 to 28, 2024. The annual event features presentations by prominent Catholic speakers, daily [...]
Columns
A good biopic is hard to find, but Wildcat artfully delivers
In the new movie Wildcat, a feverish and immobile Mary Flannery O’Connor, played by Maya Hawke, asks her parish priest, played by Liam Neeson, whether he has ever read James Joyce. He admits he has not, [...]
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Some things change, some don’t, and it can be hard to know what to do about it. Wise sayings point in different directions: “[I] beseech you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to [...] -
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A week ago, the editors of the National Catholic Register published an editorial titled “It’s Time to Remove Father Rupnik’s Art”. Their strong stance, they said, was “not an expedient surrender to iconoclasm or ‘cancel [...] -
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jpfhays:
He can take whatever title he wants, the Orthodox have more sense than to sign on to a heretical piece…
brineyman:
Or else maybe he just thinks it sounds good.
Peter D. Beaulieu:
About the death penalty, what exactly does "inadmissible" actually mean? A change in doctrine or, instead, still a prudential judgment…
