Features
Being Frank about Francis
The McCarrick scandal, let us all admit, is just one powerful gust in the swirling tempest that now surrounds Francis and threatens to capsize both […]
Features
Essay
Economics, Technology, and Virtue
The explosive development of automation, robotics, and AI requires a dedicated focus on the role of conscience—our spiritual life—to help us respond to the challenges […]
Features
Reflections from the ruins
The reform will begin when the Church again unambiguously teaches the Gospel complete. […]
Features
“Unprotected” documentary tells the story of Paul VI, the Pill, and sexual revolution
“Pope Paul VI was getting at the essence of what it is to be human,” says filmmaker Don Johnson. “As I try to show in […]
Analysis
The Viganò report, and what Wuerl didn’t know
Cardinal Wuerl’s reputation as a consummate diplomat and a “safe pair of hands” was built around a long career spent doing things by the book, […]
Features
Bishop Eleganti: “The Pope’s silence is a classic non-denial!”
“The attempts to rewrite the traditional doctrine that regards homosexual acts as disordered in themselves,” says the Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Chur, Switzerland, “and […]
Essay
Abusing Zacchaeus
Fr. James Martin’s approaches to interpreting Scripture have a long pedigree in Western Christianity; they’re largely rooted in the modernism of liberal Protestantism. […]
Features
Analysis
As the Church reels, is an even larger scandal building?
As the gap widens between what the hierarchy says about Islam and what ordinary Catholics can see in the news or encounter in their own […]
Essay
Why we stay, and the Vigano Testimony
The Church’s current crisis is a crisis of fidelity and a crisis of holiness, a crisis of infidelity and a crisis of sin. It is […]