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What two future popes saw at the Second Vatican Council

October 18, 2022 Catholic News Agency 2

A procession of Council Fathers at the opening of Vatican II, Oct. 11, 1962. / Peter Geymayer via Wikimedia (public domain)

Denver Newsroom, Oct 18, 2022 / 09:00 am (CNA).
Sixty years ago this month, the Second Vatican Council brought together … […]

The Dispatch

Religion, “presentism”, and the problem of the future

September 28, 2022 David G. Bonagura, Jr. 11

“All religions,” writes Pope Benedict XVI in the first volume of Jesus of Nazareth, “try in one way or another to lift the veil of the future. They seem important precisely because they impart knowledge […]

Analysis

Catholic colleges and universities owe students an apology

September 16, 2022 Marc D. Guerra, Ph.D. 33

For more than forty years, Catholic liberal arts colleges have, to put it mildly, struggled to carve out a recognizable intellectual and educational place in the ever-shifting landscape of American higher education. That they have […]

Chapp's Schtick

The “People of God” and the continued battle over Vatican II

September 5, 2022 Larry Chapp 32

“The real problem with popes,” a friend once said to me, “is that they die.” What he meant was that no matter how consequential a particular papacy might be, it is still at the mercy […]

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On Musk, markets, and man

August 2, 2022 Ronald L. Jelinek, Ph.D. 19

Elon Musk is a curious guy. The son of a Canadian-born model and a South African engineer, he grew up in Pretoria before moving to Canada and later graduating from the Wharton School at the […]

Chapp's Schtick

The false binary between progressive accommodators and “rad trad” restorationists

June 21, 2022 Larry Chapp 90

Much ink has been spilled on the recent comments by the Holy Father concerning his assertion that the Second Vatican Council has been “gagged” by “restorationists”. Pope Francis specifically mentioned the United States as home […]

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The Dispatch

Rumors and conclaves: Expect the unexpected

June 21, 2022 Christopher R. Altieri 8

There’s been a lot of chatter about Pope Francis getting ready to resign, but I’m not buying it — not yet — nor am I convinced either he or his pontificate is running on empty. […]

Essay

Humpty Dumpty, the Corruption of Language, and the Destruction of Society

June 11, 2022 Robert R. Reilly 50

Almost everyone is familiar with Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass. In one of its most famous passages, Carroll neatly encapsulates the central issue in the use and abuse of language: “When I use a […]

The Dispatch

A Double Persecution: The Witness of Hong Kong’s Cardinal Zen

June 9, 2022 Dr. R. Jared Staudt 4

If the Church is to continue to be Christ’s presence in the world, then part of that mission includes continuing his sacrifice. I recently wrote about the sacrificial witness of the priest in the face […]

The Dispatch

Pius XI, Saint Joseph, and Joseph Stalin

March 19, 2022 Michael J. Nader 8

Eighty-five years ago this week, Pope Pius XI issued two encyclicals condemning two of the most brutal regimes in history: Hitler’s Nazi Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Union.  Pius released Mit Brennender Sorge (“On the Church and […]

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