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Why Catholic doctrine on sexual morality cannot change

November 22, 2025 Richard A. Spinello 57

Can the Catholic Church change her mind and teachings about sexual morality? Is it finally time to listen to progressives and abolish the ascetic elements of Christian morality, bringing Catholicism in line with the rest […]

Analysis

The Sacramental Nature of Authority and the Limits of Synodality

September 29, 2024 Nicholas J. Healy, Jr. 80

St. Ignatius of Loyola’s first rule for thinking with the Church is: “We must put aside all judgment of our own, and keep the mind ever ready and prompt to obey in all things, the […]

Columns

Benedict XVI’s covenantal theology and what it means for ecology

May 24, 2024 Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. 16

“Those who can recognize in the cosmos the reflections of the Creator’s invisible face tend to have a greater love for creatures and greater sensitivity to their symbolic value.” This was central lessons imparted by […]

Features

“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 […]

Analysis

Franciscan friar’s attack on bishops and doctrine is a theological disaster

April 5, 2023 T. Alex Giltner, Ph.D. 18

Franciscan Friar Daniel P. Horan, in a response to the USCCB’s March 20th document “Doctrinal Note on the Moral Limits to the Technological Manipulation of the Human Body,” refers to the Note as a “disaster”. […]

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 […]

Features

Infallibility and the limits of papal power: An interview Cardinal Gerhard Müller

November 20, 2022 CWR Contributors 20

Editor’s note: The following kath.net interview was posted originally on November 15, 2022, and appears here with kind permission of Lothar C. Rilinger and kath.net. English translation is by Frank Nitsche-Robinson. Vatican (kath.net) According to […]

Analysis

Pope Francis, contraception, and the problem of ecclesial authority

August 4, 2022 E. Christian Brugger 187

It’s been reported (see here and here) that the recent text from the Pontifical Academy for Life (PAL), Etica Teologica della Vita (Theological Ethics of Life, Vatican Publishing, 2022), advocates among other things the disregarding […]

Chapp's Schtick

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, […]

General

A brief defense of Fr. Schall on Islam, Christianity, and intelligence

September 28, 2018 Brian Jones 6

In a recent essay at the Public Discourse, David Rahimi offered a critical review of Fr. James V. Schall’s recent book On Islam: A Chronological Record, 2002-2018 (Ignatius Press, 2018). While it is certainly the case […]

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