Editorial
We have Met the problem—and it is ancient, secular, and us
The Gala at the Met was a sad attempt to pretend, to think (or feel, more likely) that colorful celebration and rampant symbolism can capture […]
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Editorial
Pope Francis “takes aim” in “Gaudete et Exsultate”—and misses?
The many good qualities and substantive passages in Gaudete et Exsultate are often overshadowed, or even undermined, by straw men, dubious arguments, and cheap shots. […]
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Cardinal Marx promotes false news about blessings and “homosexual unions”
Will Pope Francis correct the German Cardinal, who has stated that Catholic priests can conduct blessing ceremonies for homosexual couples and says “we have no […]
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Catholics aren’t obsessed with sex—they are obsessed with life
There seems little doubt, at this point, that 2018 is going to witness yet another great clash over Paul VI’s encyclical—arguably the most contested and […]
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Why does Fr. Martin persist in embarrassing, sleight-of-substance tactics?
The well-known Jesuit priest and author insists that Fr. Thomas G. Weinandy is a “dissenter”. That would be funny if it wasn’t so stupid. […]
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In gratitude for the gift of the “Catechism of the Catholic Church”
How I learned that reading and studying the Catechism, Church doctrine and dogma, and theology are not ultimately about knowing things or facts but about knowing […]
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Transcendent truth, not leftist hypocrisy, needed to overcome racism and other evils
The Left always seeks to claim and re-name the moral high ground, but has no objective foundations for its radical political project […]
Editorial
Is Cardinal Pell “the quintessential scape-goat”? [Updated]
I’m not an expert—not even close—on Australian politics or Catholicism Down Under, but over the past few years I’ve carried on correspondence with a number of Catholics in Australia. And these folks, all of them […]
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Pope Francis and the Doctrinal Ideologues
There is a reason the Creed is recited every Sunday. And to defend and hold to doctrine is not only not ideological, it is part […]
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Settle for nothing less than the infinite mystery and infinite delight
Back in the early 1840s, John Henry Newman observed that physical philosophers—that is, scientists—”are ever inquiring whence things are, not why; referring them to nature, not to mind; and thus they tend to make a […]