“There is an organic connection between our spiritual life and the dogmas. Dogmas are lights along the path of faith; they illuminate it and make it secure. Conversely, if our life is upright, our intellect […]
Stéphane Mercier, a lecturer in philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven (UCL) in Belgium initially was suspended from teaching, pending the outcome of disciplinary proceedings, because there was opposition in a class from a feminist group to his […]
Christ is the Light of the world The opening sentences of Vatican II’s Lumen gentium state that Christ is the light of all nations, not the Church, but that this light shines on the Church’s […]
Robert Royal’s wide-ranging book A Deeper Vision: The Catholic Intellectual Tradion in the Twentieth Century is an account of the vitality of the Catholic mind in the twentieth century, engaging both the intellectual (philosophy, theology, […]
I think that Chapter 8, “Accompanying, Discerning and Integrating Weakness”, is the most problematic section of Amoris Laetitia (AL) for three reasons: 1) Pope Francis seems almost (not quite, but almost) incapable of acknowledging that an individual is sinfully […]
Pope Francis’s Wednesday Audience talk of February 3rd addressed the question of the relationship of mercy to justice. “Sacred Scripture presents us with God as infinite mercy,” he stated, “but also as perfect justice. How […]
During the extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family at the Vatican, the phrase “doctrinal development” was bandied about by some bishops. For instance, Reinhard Cardinal Marx of Germany, responding to a question at a […]
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