Most scholars agree that it was the Vietnam War that spurred serious study of trauma and its after effects. This led, in 1980, to the American Psychiatric Association introducing formal diagnostic criteria for what it […]
Twice this year I’ve had two students, both new mothers, come to me to request alternate arrangements because they thought they had to miss my classes when childcare arrangements fell through unexpectedly. Twice I refused […]
Zita Ballinger Fletcher’s recent National Catholic Reporter essay, titled “The Latin Mass becomes a cult of toxic tradition” is such an adolescent and amateurish a rant, abounding in so many grotesques about an unnamed “Latin […]
While Byzantine Christianity prays for our dead in the early spring (on “soul Saturdays” during Lent chiefly), Latin Christianity has for many centuries kept November as the month of the dead. This is a month, […]
Christopher Altieri, in his recent Catholic Herald article on possible alterations to the requirement of clerical celibacy in the Latin Church, notes such a change would “be to swap one set of familiar problems for […]
The so-called synodal assembly being concocted by Catholics in Germany has emerged with a covert agenda so cynical that even its sharpest critics have missed it. This meeting is shaping up to be a debacle […]
Amidst a great deal of discussion and debate over surveys of what Catholics apparently believe (or don’t believe) about the Eucharist, permit me to raise three questions—one somewhat flippant, and the other two serious—that I […]
Stephen Bullivant is Professor of Theology and the Sociology of Religion at St. Mary’s University in London, where is also Director of the Benedict XVI Centre for Religion and Society. He studied theology and philosophy […]
Last fall I cheered the impending news of John Henry Newman’s canonization, for which we now have a date: October 13 of this year. October happens to be the month in which, after many years […]
The Church is paralyzed today. Last November’s meeting of the USCCB, the recent papal motu proprio (which I discussed here), and now this month’s USCCB meeting have all demonstrated an exhaustion of episcopal imagination, which […]
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