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The Heart Has its Reasons: Thoughts on a Theology of Courage

Editor’s note: The following address was given at the Catholic Medical Association’s 92nd Annual Educational Conference on September 7, 2023. My comments today are not [...]
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A narrow win for religious freedom in Maryland

Amid ongoing controversy over the tension between religious freedom and issues involving human sexuality, the Supreme Court of Maryland, in a four-to-three judgment, handed a [...]
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German bishops in tug of war over blessing same-sex unions

Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki faces mounting pressure from multiple fronts, including local media — and some clergy: In open defiance, several priests conducted an event blessing same-sex couples outside the iconic Cologne Cathedral Sept 21, 2023… […]
Analysis

The Rupnik business will stain and possibly define Pope Francis’s legacy

How bad is this Rupnik business? It is very, very bad. The Rupnik business is worse—by orders of magnitude—than l’Affaire Barros, l’Affaire Inzoli, worse even [...]
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North Carolina Right to Life celebrates 50 years, looks back and forward

Natalie Sonnen is Outreach Director of North Carolina Right to Life, a state affiliate that is marking its fiftieth anniversary this year. NCRTL will mark [...]

The Heart Has its Reasons: Thoughts on a Theology of Courage

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Most Reverend James Conley September 25, 2023 3

Editor’s note: The following address was given at the Catholic Medical Association’s 92nd Annual Educational Conference on September 7, 2023. My comments today are not what I originally intended. A title like “the heart has [...]

The Rupnik business will stain and possibly define Pope Francis’s legacy

Analysis

Christopher R. Altieri September 24, 2023 16

How bad is this Rupnik business? It is very, very bad. The Rupnik business is worse—by orders of magnitude—than l’Affaire Barros, l’Affaire Inzoli, worse even than l’Affaire Zanchetta. The disgraceful rehabilitation of Danneels is mere [...]

Books

Literature, Truth and Beauty: Or, why “art for art’s sake” is poisonous

Robert Lazu Kmita September 23, 2023 8

In an interview that I had the honor and joy of conducting almost 20 years ago, in 2005, Joseph Pearce revealed that his vocation is to mediate the encounter of as many readers as possible [...]

Analysis

The Sacramental Nature of Authority and the Limits of Synodality

Nicholas J. Healy, Jr. September 22, 2023 70

St. Ignatius of Loyola’s first rule for thinking with the Church is: “We must put aside all judgement of our own, and keep the mind every ready and prompt to obey in all things, the [...]

Analysis

Why Ratzinger and Wojtyła were correct about liberation theology

Filip Mazurczak September 21, 2023 14

The death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI on the final day of 2022 presents a continued opportunity to revisit and evaluate his legacy as a theologian, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the [...]

Analysis

Two Visions of “Evangelization”

Matthew Levering September 20, 2023 59

A theological debate is being played out in the Catholic world, a debate whose ramifications are large. In its latest iteration, it began with Cardinal-elect Américo Aguiar, the Lisbon auxiliary bishop in charge of preparations [...]

Features

Will anyone in Rome get to the bottom of the Rupnik/Centro Aletti business?

Christopher R. Altieri September 19, 2023 34

After the statement from the Rome vicariate on Monday announcing a clean bill of health for the Centro Aletti, the only question is: What do you call a whitewash that is also a coverup that [...]

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Battling for the souls in a soulless age

Prof. William E. Carroll September 18, 2023 18

Speaking in Alaska on September 11, 2023, President Biden noted that the terrorists responsible for killing so many people 22 years ago “could not touch what no force, no enemy, no day ever could, and [...]

Facing a maskless future together

Andrew Petiprin September 15, 2023 41

Are masks coming back? Let us hope not. A few weeks ago, I began to notice stray stories about how face coverings might make a return. We were told that cold and flu season was [...]
On the illogic and insanity of sedevacantism

Larry Chapp September 13, 2023 292
The truth about social justice and the moral life

James Kalb September 5, 2023 44

Who is really trying to replace doctrine with ideology?

Carl E. Olson August 28, 2023 159

“There you go again.” — Ronald Reagan, 1980 Pope Francis, addressing a group of Jesuits recently, said: “When you abandon doctrine in life to replace it with an ideology, you have lost, you have lost [...]
The Synodal Sludge

Carl E. Olson June 23, 2023 58
Cardinal Hollerich’s less than “Honest to God” moment

Carl E. Olson March 30, 2023 54

The Heart Has its Reasons: Thoughts on a Theology of Courage

A narrow win for religious freedom in Maryland

German bishops in tug of war over blessing same-sex unions

The Rupnik business will stain and possibly define Pope Francis’s legacy

North Carolina Right to Life celebrates 50 years, looks back and forward

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The Heart Has its Reasons: Thoughts on a Theology of Courage

The Rupnik business will stain and possibly define Pope Francis’s legacy

Literature, Truth and Beauty: Or, why “art for art’s sake” is poisonous

The Sacramental Nature of Authority and the Limits of Synodality

Why Ratzinger and Wojtyła were correct about liberation theology

Two Visions of “Evangelization”

Will anyone in Rome get to the bottom of the Rupnik/Centro Aletti business?

Battling for the souls in a soulless age

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