Features
The long shadows of the First Vatican Council
Revered and Reviled squarely faces the problem that Vatican I presents, and has always presented about papal primacy. […]
Articles by Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille
The Dispatch
The Chilean bishops’ offer to resign is surprising, yet also traditional. But more is needed.
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 […]
Features
Schmemann and “liturgy outside liturgy”
“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 […]
Books
Jordan Peterson’s Jungian best-seller is banal, superficial, and insidious
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 […]
Features
“Exceeding glad shall he be of thy salvation”: On Handel and preparing for Lent in the East
This year my imagery of Lent has been shaken up quite unexpectedly from a source one would never associate with such things. […]
The Dispatch
Pope Francis, “diaconal primacy”, and decentralization of the curia
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 […]
Analysis
Questioning the prospects of Catholic-Orthodox unity
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 […]
The Dispatch
New book explores the meaning and place of icons in the West
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. […]
The Dispatch
The forgotten witness of Karl Stern
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 […]
The Dispatch
Anti-American projections and trendy scapegoating
From 1989 until roughly 1996, I was formally involved in the ecumenical movement, jetting off to regional and World Council of Churches meetings on five different continents. By 1991 in Canberra, Australia, I came to […]