World leaders and Church leaders keep insisting that terrorism is a betrayal of real Islam, which, as Secretary of State John Kerry recently assured us, is “a peaceful religion based on the dignity of all […]
The irreplaceable canonist Edward Peters argues that disciplinary norms can have no, some, and a fundamental relation to doctrine, and though not a canonist, I think he’s mistaken about the no. Donald Cardinal Wuerl, questioned […]
• “The Synod of Bishops on Friday entered its decisive second phase,” states a report from CNA/EWTN, “with the formation of small groups which are to come to decisions which will be synthesized into the […]
• As expected, there is no end to the flood of news flowing out of Rome about the Synod. Some of it is helpful, much of it is conflicting in content, and most of it […]
Catholic News Service has a brief but interesting video of Cardinal Wilfrid Napier of Durban, South Africa speaking about the Synod on the Family’s discussions of marriage and Communion. While much of the conversation, at […]
Every year, on the first Monday in October, the U.S. Supreme Court begins a new term. This year it began with a bang. The court refused to hear the largest number of petitions requesting certiorari—all […]
“Remaining in the truth of Christ” is at the heart of the Extraordinary Synod on the Family, said Cardinal Raymond Burke, prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura. With the synod beginning this […]
In a shift that may have consequences for the 2014 elections—and beyond—the Pew Religion and Public Life Project reported late last month that Catholics are continuing to trend toward the Republican Party. Fifty-three percent of […]
A recent study by the Pew Research Center finds significant differences between younger and older liberals, differences that are not encouraging either to orthodox religious believers or to the older liberals. The Next Generation Left […]
Mark Brumley, President of Ignatius Press, which has recently published several books on the family and marriage in connection with the Extraordinary Synod on the Family, has written an especially strong and pointed op-ed for […]
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