Books
The Bland Inquisitor
While reading Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress I was comforted by the knowledge that I would be compensated [...]
The Bland Inquisitor
Books
While reading Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress I was comforted by the knowledge that I would be compensated for my opinion of it. Here it is: Don’t bother. Enlightenment [...]
The Synod and six enchanting, problematic buzzwords
Books
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 [...]
Features
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 spectacle of “he said / he said” continues at the [...]
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 through men and women—through St. Gregory, through St. Joan. Saints [...]
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 Dallas in 1985. His first assignment as a priest was [...]
Essay
A True Antagonist for a Broken World: Faith in a Secular Age
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
[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
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 [...]
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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 [...] -
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This is not a time for silence, mediocrity, or fear for the laity or the bishops. The rot and corruption must be outed; the truth […]
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GregB:
Snowflake spirituality? Are we in the era of Snowflake Synods?
John-Charles Catellucio:
Excellent analysis and excellent teaching for our troubled times. But in concrete situations, are we (especially if not the pope,…
Helen Louise Herndon:
I am a Reformed Faith Christian, a former missionary to the Arab/Muslim world in North Africa and a freelance Christian…
