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Letter from Rome, February 22, 2020: Jean Vanier
I remember the first time I attended the via Crucis at the Colosseum. It was Good Friday of 1998, my first Holy Week in Rome, [...]
Reading Scripture during Lent: Sacred Scripture in the Life of the Church
Essay
Editor’s note: This is the final essay in a three-part series on “Reading Scripture during Lent”. Part One was “A Catholic Understanding of the Bible” and Part Two was “Scripture and Tradition”. “The Church has always [...]
Progressives and the problem of being more Francis than the pope
Editorial
The highly anticipated and now much discussed post-synodal apostolic exhortation Querida Amazonia struck me as mostly workmanlike. That’s not to dismiss the importance of the text, or to overlook significant passages. Nor is to suggest [...]
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Priest diagnosed with brain tumor offers his sufferings for abuse victims
Last week, Father John Hollowell announced to readers of his blog and followers on Twitter that he has been diagnosed with a brain tumor, and that he will be offering his sufferings for the victims [...]
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The Idea of Tradition in Querida Amazonia
In the recent post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation, Querida Amazonia (Beloved Amazon), Pope Francis refers to the transmission throughout time—the traditionary process—of the “authentic Tradition of the Church” (§66). Tradition here is spelt with a capital T. [...]
Essay
Saint Augustine on True Worship and the Ecclesial Heart
As I was reading Augustine’s discussion of true worship in the City of God this past week, I was struck by how naturally Augustine holds together things that contemporary Catholic culture has divided. Let me [...]
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National Conservatism and the ‘True Europe’
There are a lot of fancy terms being used to describe today’s changing political landscape. There’s Eatwell and Goodwin’s ‘national populism,’ Dueck’s ’conservative nationalism,’ and the ‘populist nationalism’ of Steve Bannon. And then there’s ‘national [...]
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Querida Amazonia: The good, the baffling, and the unexpected
The long-awaited (dreaded) post-synodal apostolic exhortation has finally dropped. For months, Catholics on the side of the angels have been trolled by the Left into fearing/believing that this document would open the door to married [...]
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Querida Amazonia combats caricatures, presents a robust Christocentrism
In the midst of all of the attention given to the Pope’s failure in his apostolic exhortation, Querida Amazonia, to positively endorse married priests in the Amazon, and of his more explicit rejection of the [...]
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A couple of months ago I reviewed R.R. Reno’s book Return of the Strong Gods, in which the author calls for strengthening the loves and loyalties that hold Western societies together. At the end of [...] -
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The highly anticipated and now much discussed post-synodal apostolic exhortation Querida Amazonia struck me as mostly workmanlike. That’s not to dismiss the importance of the text, or to overlook significant passages. Nor is to suggest [...] -
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Letter from Rome, February 22, 2020: Jean Vanier | Catholic Canada:
[…] I remember the first time I attended the via Crucis at the Colosseum. It was Good Friday of 1998,…
Fr Peter Morello:
You must be perfected as your heavenly Father is perfect (Catholic translation found in breviary since Vat II). "I don’t…
Daniel Fink:
Thank you, Carl.You are a valued and reliable source of interpreting our existence through the lens of that most central,…
