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The Synod and six enchanting, problematic buzzwords

It comes as no surprise that the buzzwords – pastoral, mercy, listening, discernment, accompaniment and integration which swirled around the Extraordinary Synod on the Family [...]
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No Cross, no Kingdom. Know the Cross, know the Kingdom.

Readings: • Isa 53:10-11 • Ps 33:4-5, 18-19, 20, 22 • Heb 4:14-16 • Mk 10:35-45 “No pain, no gain.” The well-known saying became popular [...]
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Archbishop Viganò’s third testimony indicates a way through the current morass

While the Church in the United States faces the prospect of an autumn to make Chile’s seem tame and even idyllic by comparison, the grotesque [...]
Essay

Russell Kirk: Conservative, Convert, Catholic

Editor’s note: This essay was originally posted on July 31, 2014, and is re-posted to mark the 100th anniversary of Kirk’s birth. Ordinarily Providence works [...]
Features

Bishop Strickland of Tyler: “Lives have been damaged, even destroyed by abuse”

Bishop Joseph Strickland, 59, has served as bishop of Tyler, Texas, since 2012. A native Texan, he was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of [...]

The Synod and six enchanting, problematic buzzwords

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Fr Nicholas Gregoris October 20, 2018 4

It comes as no surprise that the buzzwords – pastoral, mercy, listening, discernment, accompaniment and integration which swirled around the Extraordinary Synod on the Family in 2014, the Ordinary Synod on the Family in 2015 [...]

Archbishop Viganò’s third testimony indicates a way through the current morass

Features

Christopher R. Altieri October 19, 2018 33

While the Church in the United States faces the prospect of an autumn to make Chile’s seem tame and even idyllic by comparison, the grotesque spectacle of “he said / he said” continues at the [...]

Essay

Russell Kirk: Conservative, Convert, Catholic

Bradley J. Birzer October 19, 2018 1

Editor’s note: This essay was originally posted on July 31, 2014, and is re-posted to mark the 100th anniversary of Kirk’s birth. Ordinarily Providence works through men and women—through St. Gregory, through St. Joan. Saints [...]

Features

Bishop Strickland of Tyler: “Lives have been damaged, even destroyed by abuse”

Jim Graves October 18, 2018 7

Bishop Joseph Strickland, 59, has served as bishop of Tyler, Texas, since 2012. A native Texan, he was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Dallas in 1985. His first assignment as a priest was [...]

Essay

A True Antagonist for a Broken World: Faith in a Secular Age

David Paul Deavel October 17, 2018 3

I’m often asked by friends or by people who know that I teach Catholic Studies what I think is going on with the Catholic Church. It’s a long story and has changed. You have perhaps [...]

Essay

The Prophetic Witness of St. John Paul II

Carl E. Olson October 16, 2018 4

[Editor’s note: This essay originally appeared on CWR on April 1, 2015, and is reposted here, in slightly different form, to mark the 40th anniversary of the election of John Paul II.) “We, who are [...]

Analysis

Analysis: Justice by papal fiat points to serious lack of trust within the Church

Christopher R. Altieri October 15, 2018 39

The Vatican announced on Saturday that Pope Francis has reduced two Chilean bishops to the lay state. One of the defrocked is an 85-year-old man reported now to be suffering senile dementia, Francisco José Cox [...]

Essay

Chesterton and the current crisis: “If we boast of our best, we must repent of our worst”

Dale Ahlquist October 14, 2018 17

In every Catholic Church, there is a gruesome sight. It is the image of a man being tortured to death. We should turn away from it in horror, but instead we don’t even notice it, [...]

The Conundrum of Progressivism

James Kalb September 30, 2018 7

Progressivism, the view that modern political tendencies should continually be extended, has deep roots. Its beginnings are closely connected to the rise of modern natural science, which rejects the contemplative ideal of knowledge in favor [...]
Political Life and the Church

James Kalb September 26, 2018 3
Confusion and mixed messages: A view from China

Anthony E. Clark, Ph.D. September 24, 2018 2

The Synod and six enchanting, problematic buzzwords

No Cross, no Kingdom. Know the Cross, know the Kingdom.

Archbishop Viganò’s third testimony indicates a way through the current morass

Russell Kirk: Conservative, Convert, Catholic

Bishop Strickland of Tyler: “Lives have been damaged, even destroyed by abuse”

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The Synod and six enchanting, problematic buzzwords

Archbishop Viganò’s third testimony indicates a way through the current morass

Russell Kirk: Conservative, Convert, Catholic

Bishop Strickland of Tyler: “Lives have been damaged, even destroyed by abuse”

A True Antagonist for a Broken World: Faith in a Secular Age

The Prophetic Witness of St. John Paul II

Analysis: Justice by papal fiat points to serious lack of trust within the Church

Chesterton and the current crisis: “If we boast of our best, we must repent of our worst”

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