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. […]
Ryszard Lugutko is not all that well known in Anglophone circles but he is a huge name in Poland. In the 1980s he was a young academic in Cracow writing books and articles about political […]
On a recent trip to Scotland Bishop Gilbert of Aberdeen asked me whether I was familiar with the Scottish writer George Mackay Brown. I had to confess that I had never heard of him. A […]
Last week the Vatican released the Instrumentum Laboris for the upcoming General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops. This “working document” is a summary of the results of the consultation with the faithful and clergy […]
In God is Near Us, Joseph Ratzinger remarked that “in the New Testament as a whole, and in the whole of the tradition of the Church, it has always been clear that God desires everyone […]
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