Synodal rhetoric vs Christian reality – Compare Joseph Ratzinger’s spirit in seeking to understand Creation to the recent words of Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich. The Ruinous Rhetoric of ‘Synodal Interpretation’ (The Catholic Thing) Euthanasia in Canada […]
In its Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (Lumen Gentium), the Second Vatican Council firmly applied the brakes to “ultramontanism” — the overheated theory of papal supremacy that reduced local bishops to branch managers who simply […]
Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich celebrates Mass at the International Eucharistic Congress in Budapest, Hungary, Sept. 10, 2021. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA.
Rome Newsroom, Mar 7, 2023 / 06:45 am (CNA).
Pope Francis appointed five new members to his coun… […]
No Catholic these days needs to be told that the Church faces many big challenges, many of them the fault of Catholics. We may prioritize these challenges differently, but they trouble each Catholic who takes […]
Archbishop Jacques Mourad, the new Syrian Catholic archbishop of Homs, Syria. / Credit: ACN
ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 6, 2023 / 15:00 pm (CNA).
Father Jacques Mourad, a Syrian Catholic monk who was kidnapped in Syria by Islamic State (ISIS) terrori… […]
The campus of the University of Notre Dame. / Shutterstock
Denver, Colo., Mar 4, 2023 / 11:43 am (CNA).
In the wake of the Dobbs Supreme Court decision overturning the pro-abortion rights Roe v. Wade ruling, several bodies at the University of … […]
Readings: • Gen 12:1-4a • Ps 33:4-5, 18-19, 20, 22 • 2 Tim 1:8b-10 • Mt 17:1-9 “Life is short; death is certain,” wrote St. John Henry Newman, “and the world to come is everlasting.” […]
The exhibition on "Spain and the Hispanic World" features an opulent vision of the Flight into Egypt by an unknown 18th-century Peruvian artist. The work is from the Hispanic Society of America. / Photo by Lucien de Guise
London, Engl… […]
In a 2013 symposium entitled “What to Look for in a New Pope”—in a reference that Commonweal writer Paul Baumann won’t let die—former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan said, “The next pope should be a man […]
In the interests of full disclosure, let me make the following declarations at the outset of this essay. I am not a Rad-Trad; I am not a Glad-Trad; I am not a Sad-Trad. I am […]
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