In one of my last conversations with Cardinal Pell we talked about Margit Balogh’s biography of Cardinal Mindszenty, titled Victim of History. Balogh chose as the opening epigraph Mindszenty’s statement: “I shall keep on fighting…until […]
The name Joseph Ratzinger first came to my attention in 1985 with the publication of The Ratzinger Report. Reading The Report and other books by Ratzinger was life-changing for myself and many of my friends. […]
The first time I came across the name Schindler, I was a doctoral student in Cambridge, working on the topic of tradition-constituted rationality in the thought of Alasdair MacIntyre. The couplet “faith and reason” shares […]
It is easy to be critical of Gaudium et Spes as a document pushed through at the end of the Second Vatican Council when the Holy Spirit was out to lunch or the Conciliar fathers […]
Bishop Peter Elliott is well-known in the Anglosphere. He grew up in Melbourne as the son of an Anglican vicar and the older of two brothers, the younger one named Paul. His curriculum vitae reads […]
In a recent interview posted by CWR, Cardinal Gerhard Müller remarked: Since the eighteenth century, along with absolutism, we have even in Catholic France, Austria and Bavaria the unholy tradition of the official state church […]
One of the great Catholic publications of 2019 has been the translation by Kenneth Oakes and Francesca Aran Murphy of chunks of Olivier-Thomas Venard OP’s trilogy: Littérature et théologie, La langue de l’ineffable and Pagina […]
Editor’s note: The following paper was delivered at The Angelicum, Rome, on October 12, 2019 to celebrate the canonization of John Henry Newman. John Henry Newman famously described a Catholic University as ‘an Alma Mater, […]
The marketing blurb on the book When Jesuits were Giants begins with the statement: No one in France or the United States during the second half of the nineteenth century doubted that the Jesuits, loved […]
In 1933 Romano Guardini published a small monograph consisting of three lectures around the subject of conscience. It was originally titled Das Gute, das Gewissen und die Sammlung – the good, conscience and inner composure. […]
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