“Gaudete et exsultate” is beautiful for its simplicity, frustrating for its failures
Pope Francis should be more careful, for he tends to overstate matters and to attack weak sisters even when he does not set up straw […]
Pope Francis should be more careful, for he tends to overstate matters and to attack weak sisters even when he does not set up straw […]
Catholics frustrated with Pope Francis’ style and record of leadership ought not allow partial accounts to poison them against the Holy Father. […]
Whatever else there is to say about the document and regardless of one’s personal, spiritual, or intellectual disposition toward Pope Francis, it is fair to […]
Our Lord also told His disciples, “Behold I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves. Be ye therefore wise as serpents and simple […]
The Holy Father’s condemnation of those “who twist reality and invent stories for their own benefit, without concern for the good name of others” is […]
Is the Pope distancing himself from his reform project, now that the man he chose to head it has resigned? […]
The Prefect of the Secretariat for Communication of the Holy See has a communication problem. Specifically, he has a hard time telling the truth. […]
The brief and perfunctorily courteous note from the Pope emeritus was just that, and there’s no reason to try and make the letter say what […]
Despite his repeated and vehement denunciations of clericalism, Francis’ more general remarks about the laity sometimes nevertheless exhibit a sort of clerical chauvinism. […]
Titled “Placuit Deo,” the new document, although quite short, effectively reaffirms the Christocentric focus of Dominus Iesus. […]
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