Christophobia and the ideologues of liberal democracy
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 […]
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 […]
In one of the last acts of his pontificate, Benedict XVI gave an address to the clergy of the Diocese of Rome on the Second Vatican Council. In the address he drew a distinction between […]
In Called to Communion, published in 1996, a decade before the beginning of his papacy, Joseph Ratzinger had some strong words to say about the bureaucratic machinery of the Church. He wrote: The more administrative […]
In 1963 Columbia Pictures produced the movie The Cardinal. According to Wikipedia the Vatican’s liaison officer on the project was a young Joseph Ratzinger. In the movie there is a dialogue between a couple of […]
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