Analysis
The Ratzinger Diagnosis
Published a week short of his 92nd birthday, Joseph Ratzinger’s essay on the epidemiology of the clergy sex-abuse crisis vividly illustrated his still-unparalleled capacity to [...]
The Ratzinger Diagnosis
Analysis
Published a week short of his 92nd birthday, Joseph Ratzinger’s essay on the epidemiology of the clergy sex-abuse crisis vividly illustrated his still-unparalleled capacity to incinerate the brain-circuits of various Catholic progressives. The origins of [...]
Catholic universities, contemplation, and our cultural future
Essay
For better or for worse, universities are shapers of culture, not the only ones, of course, but decisive ones. The reason for this isn’t mysterious. Most of our cultural elites – the people in the [...]
Essay
“The Truth of the Resurrection” by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
Editor’s note: The following excerpt is from Introduction to Christianity (2nd edition) by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Ignatius Press, 1990, 2004; pp. 301-10). ——— To the Christian, faith in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ is an expression [...]
Essay
On resurrection, abortion, and judgment
“On the morning of the first day of the week, the disciples were gathered together behind locked doors, suddenly, Jesus stood among them and said: ‘Peace be with you,’ alleluia.” — Antiphon, Evening Prayer, Easter Sunday. [...]
Essay
Christ’s Sufferings and Ours: Good Friday reflections from Guardini’s “The Lord”
The problem of suffering is one that has plagued and haunted humanity since the Fall of our first parents. Suffering prompts in the heart of man a visceral reaction, as well as a simple yet [...]
Essay
St. Thérèse of Lisieux: A guide to understand, appreciate the holy priesthood
The General Instruction of the Roman Missal gives the homilist for Holy Thursday unique counsel on Holy Thursday; it delineates the themes he should offer the faithful: Christ’s sacrificial and servant love; the meaning of [...]
Essay
Uncle, Father, Jesuit, Professor, Giant
The marketing blurb on the book When Jesuits were Giants begins with the statement: No one in France or the United States during the second half of the nineteenth century doubted that the Jesuits, loved [...]
Essay
Notre-Dame and the fragility of civilization
We will assign different proportions to divine intervention and human ingenuity, but that is a mechanical issue: Providence has decreed that Notre Dame cathedral be safe for the time being. Fire did not destroy her [...]
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Lent is a time of retreat and reflection. That can mean very different things for different people at different times in their lives. But it always means stepping back from daily preoccupations and looking at [...] -
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Reaction to the unexpected release of a lengthy text—almost exactly 6,000 words in all—by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, titled “The Church and the scandal of sexual abuse”, has been both swift and polarized. Some have [...] -
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John Glackin:
Natural family planning is natural contraception. It's not the couple decision to decide when they have kids. If…
