Just a week after Archbishop Coakley, the new president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), met with President Trump, Vice President Vance, Secretary Rubio, and Secretary Noem, three U.S. cardinals ignored Archbishop Coakley’s […]
The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith released today a “Doctrinal Note on Some Marian Titles regarding Mary’s Cooperation in the Work of Salvation” (Mater Populi Fidelis), and it has raised a few eyebrows along with […]
There are no first, second or third-class Catholics, no.… Please, let us get used to listening to each other, to talking, not cutting our heads off for a word. To listen, to discuss in a […]
The 2024 elections are now two weeks in the rear-view mirror, but the conversations (to use a polite word) over the what, why, and how of November 5, 2024, continue. While there is no shortage […]
A week ago, I was in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, at Saint Vincent College, attending the 32nd annual conference of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists. I am not a member of the Society, but I was […]
A week ago, the editors of the National Catholic Register published an editorial titled “It’s Time to Remove Father Rupnik’s Art”. Their strong stance, they said, was “not an expedient surrender to iconoclasm or ‘cancel […]
I recently was on the road for a while and went to Mass at a parish (in another state) that I’d never been to before. The small church was quite lovely, the liturgy quite reverent, […]
In “The Dogma is the Drama” (1939), which is one of my favorite essays, the brilliant Anglo-Catholic writer Dorothy Sayers (1893–1957) wrote: Christ, in His Divine innocence, said to the Woman of Samaria, “Ye worship ye know […]
“There you go again.” — Ronald Reagan, 1980 Pope Francis, addressing a group of Jesuits recently, said: “When you abandon doctrine in life to replace it with an ideology, you have lost, you have lost […]
Earlier this week, the Vatican issued the Instrumentum Laboris—the working document—for the October 2023 Synod. The 27,000 word document is divided in two basic parts: a section of dense descriptions and often repetitive directives, and […]
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