Is now the time for the Catholic Church seriously to consider local election of bishops and their accountability to the local people in synod? […]
Revered and Reviled squarely faces the problem that Vatican I presents, and has always presented about papal primacy. […]
The unity of the episcopate in particular, and of the body of Christ in general, can only be maintained when bishops are trusted as life-giving […]
“Tradition has said that liturgy has two purposes: the glorification of God and the sanctification of man,”says Dr. David Fagerberg, author of a new book […]
The real danger in 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos is its apologia for social Darwinism and bourgeois individualism covered over with a […]
This year my imagery of Lent has been shaken up quite unexpectedly from a source one would never associate with such things. […]
Decentralization by no means guarantees better governance, but is much more theologically, historically, and practically defensible than the Roman centralization and personality cult of the […]
The latest statement of the North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation (NAOCTC) begins and ends with questions, and these are both more valuable and certainly more interesting […]
Authored by the young Benedictine Sister Jeana Visel, Icons in the Western Church: Toward a More Sacramental Encounter deserves the widest possible readership among Western Christians. […]
Daniel Burston’s biography, A Forgotten Freudian: the Passion of Karl Stern, offers many insights into the life of a complex man whose life seems to have […]
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