Essay
Three questions to answer on Ash Wednesday
Since all human sin has its origins in that “original” sin of our first parents, let’s go back to that very beginning. […]
Dei Verbum
Features
“The ‘Synodal Way’ into the German Schism.” A critical examination
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
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
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 […]
Essay
Speech of Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Prefect to the German bishops
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 […]
Chapp's Schtick
Paradox and mystery reclaimed: A review of Henri de Lubac’s The Church
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
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
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
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
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, […]