“Melancholy is too painful, reaches too deeply into the roots of human experience to permit us to leave it to the psychiatrists.” — Romano Guardini, The Human Experience (Cluny Media, 2018) The word “melancholy”, in its […]
The latest document from the DDF, Gestis verbisque, is a breath of fresh air. It addresses a pressing situation long in need of papal attention, stretching back decades, and does so with some uncharacteristic clarity. […]
A new study released by the Pew Research Center indicates that 29% of Americans now self-identify as having no religious affiliation of any kind. And only 63% of Americans identify as Christians, which is 12% […]
Last week, I went to confession at a shrine near me, which I will not name. It was one of those infuriating confessions in which you try to convince the priest that what you are […]
The latest document from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, titled Fiducia Supplicans (Supplicating Trust), has generated a lot of controversy since its release early Monday. And as has become more and more […]
At first glance Bishop Athanasius Schneider’s new Credo: Compendium of the Catholic Faith raises no eyebrows. Framed in the time-tested question and answer format of older catechisms of happy memory it lends itself to an […]
Pope Francis has removed from office Bishop Joseph Strickland of the Diocese of Tyler Texas. This was not unexpected, and many thought it was inevitable following the Vatican’s apostolic visitation earlier this year and subsequent […]
Yesterday, Pope Francis released a “Motu Proprio” about how to do theology in the modern context. Titled Ad theologiam promovendam, it makes the case that theology must no longer be from a “desk” and must […]
I am now home from Rome and want to try to summarize what I had learned while there and my overall impressions about the Synod. Let me start with an anecdote. Fifteen years ago, I […]
When I was in the seminary, I studied under the late great moral theologian Germain Grisez. Despite his deeply orthodox and conservative theological orientation, he was adamantly opposed to the pre-conciliar “Index of forbidden books” […]
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