The San Damiano Crucifix: A Theological and Spiritual Interpretation
Essay
This Cross painted on wood initially hung in the Church of San Damiano, situated half way between hillside town of Assisi above and the Spoletan Valley below. It came to prominence when Jesus spoke to [...]
Pope Francis, Cardinal Ricard, and a stern “Call to Action”
Analysis
Historians will not want for points from which to date the breakdown of Pope Francis’s reign. Whether it was the appalling rehabilitation of disgraced Cardinal Godfried Danneels – who was on the loggia when Francis [...]
Columns
“It could be worse”: On Tarkovsky’s final film, faith, and the mystery of sacrifice
In a journal entry from 1982, the legendary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky described his struggle to believe: The most important thing and the hardest is to have faith. Because if you do have faith, then [...]
Chapp's Schtick
Evangelization in an Age of Unbelief
Wohin ist Gott? (Where is God?) — Friedrich Nietzsche Part One: Nemo dat quod non habet (You cannot give away what you do not possess) The currently raging white-hot debates in the Church are merely the [...]
Essay
The Heart Has its Reasons: Thoughts on a Theology of Courage
Editor’s note: The following address was given at the Catholic Medical Association’s 92nd Annual Educational Conference on September 7, 2023. My comments today are not what I originally intended. A title like “the heart has [...]
Analysis
The Rupnik business will stain and possibly define Pope Francis’s legacy
How bad is this Rupnik business? It is very, very bad. The Rupnik business is worse—by orders of magnitude—than l’Affaire Barros, l’Affaire Inzoli, worse even than l’Affaire Zanchetta. The disgraceful rehabilitation of Danneels is mere [...]
Books
Literature, Truth and Beauty: Or, why “art for art’s sake” is poisonous
In an interview that I had the honor and joy of conducting almost 20 years ago, in 2005, Joseph Pearce revealed that his vocation is to mediate the encounter of as many readers as possible [...]
Analysis
The Sacramental Nature of Authority and the Limits of Synodality
St. Ignatius of Loyola’s first rule for thinking with the Church is: “We must put aside all judgement of our own, and keep the mind every ready and prompt to obey in all things, the [...]
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“There you go again.” — Ronald Reagan, 1980 Pope Francis, addressing a group of Jesuits recently, said: “When you abandon doctrine in life to replace it with an ideology, you have lost, you have lost [...] -
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Keith Rieff:
As a Cooperator for the last 12 years, I have lived a lifestyle in-accordance to the teaching of Saint JoseMaria.…
Gary Lockhart:
Historians will not want for points from which to date the breakdown of Pope Francis’s reign. 13 March 2013
