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“The ‘Synodal Way’ into the German Schism.” A critical examination

April 9, 2023 CWR Staff 57

Vatican (kath.net) With the last plenary assembly, the negotiations and democratic votes of the so-called “Synodal Way” have been concluded. The majority vote decisions are now to be implemented. However, the resolutions do not meet […]

The Dispatch

Memo to Gen Z Catholics: Why Vatican II is still important

February 15, 2023 George Weigel 66

Mr. Adam Lucas, who is “newly married with a baby on the way” (mazel tov!) and “has a Master’s in Theology,” speaks for a depressing number of Gen Z Catholics when he writes on the […]

Features

The German Crisis, the World Church, and Pope Francis

December 14, 2022 George Weigel 53

The Year of Our Lord 2023 will likely witness Catholic dramas we cannot predict now; that is the way of Providence. What we can know with certainty about next year is that the German crisis […]

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Speech of Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Prefect to the German bishops

December 5, 2022 CWR Staff 29

Editor’s note: The following is the full text of the speech given on Nov. 18, 2022, by His Eminence Luis Francisco Cardinal Ladaria Ferrer, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, to […]

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Paradox and mystery reclaimed: A review of Henri de Lubac’s The Church

July 31, 2022 Larry Chapp 18

A few months ago, I interviewed the patristics scholar, Dr. Lewis Ayres. Dr. Ayres is understandably very favorably disposed towards the school of modern theology that has come to be known as “ressourcement” theology. However, […]

Chapp's Schtick

Is Vatican II “spent”? A reply to Michael Pakaluk: Part I

March 30, 2022 Larry Chapp 62

Michael Pakaluk, in a recent essay at “The Catholic Thing”, makes the claim that Vatican II, though containing many important teachings, has done all that it can do and will do, and is therefore, “spent.” […]

The Dispatch

Five reasons to read Dei Verbum—and five things you’ll learn in doing so

April 25, 2021 Dr. Leroy Huizenga 13

Mention the Second Vatican Council, and you’ll find some younger Catholics glazing over. Many born in the seventies and eighties missed the euphoria of the Council and the revolution realized in its aftermath. Our earliest […]

The Dispatch

Reading Scripture during Lent: Scripture and Tradition

February 18, 2020 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 4

Editor’s note: This is the second essay in a three-part series on “Reading Scripture during Lent”. Part One was “A Catholic Understanding of the Bible”. Which comes first, the chicken or the egg? That question […]

Books

A sorely needed theological justification of the truth of the Catholic faith

June 18, 2019 Eduardo Echeverria 11

Cardinal Gerhard Müller’s book The Power of Truth: The Challenges to Catholic Doctrine and Morals Today consists of several essays on a variety of teachings that are currently in the limelight of the Church’s crisis—doctrinal, […]

Features

How Jesus became Jesus: A conversation with Fr. Thomas G. Weinandy

June 25, 2018 Carl E. Olson 17

“When he was conceived and born these saving acts were still in the future,” says the noted theologian and author of a new study of […]

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