Sojourns with Schall
Why football boots?
We do not see what is easily seen, not because it is not easily seen, but because we choose not to see it. […]
Marriage
Analysis
The Nashville Statement is part of an ecumenical “ecology of man”
The major theme of the Nashville Declaration, what the Catholic tradition calls an “ecological conversion,” is in complete accord with the Catechism of the Catholic […]
Features
An Evangelical theologian responds to Fr. James Martin, S.J.
A consideration of Fr. Martin’s “seven ways” of responding to the Nashville Statement underscore the truncated gospel (or even anti-gospel) with which Martin operates. […]
Analysis
When some Christians affirm traditional moral teaching, other Christians freak out
The angry responses to the Nashville Statement reflect the sort of “moral therapeutic deism” that has increasingly dominated the public square in recent years. […]
The Dispatch
Archbishop Fernández’s apparent confusion over excommunication and canon law
The 1983 Code does not, and the 1917 Code did not, deprive divorced-and-remarried Catholics per se of ecclesiastical funeral rites. […]
The Dispatch
Time for frank talk about the sewage, filth of the sexual revolution
The other day I happened to find out about the recent death of the first person who ever approached me and asked for sex. I am sorry to put it in those ugly words, but […]
Analysis
Sexual pollution is a scientific—and destructive—fact
Is it possible to talk about the pollution of sexuality in the same way that we can talk about the pollution of the air with sulfur dioxide belched out of smoke stacks or pollution of […]
Features
The Church, Society, and Sex
One of the many bons mots of Archbishop Fulton Sheen was: “What the Church gives up the world takes up.” By that he meant the Church often (all too often) fails to appreciate the value […]
The Dispatch
Has the Church repealed the Law of Non-Contradiction?
I owe Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich a debt of gratitude. He recently was quoted as saying: We have always wanted to make sure that we start the conversation by saying that all people are of […]
Analysis
Re-Building a Bridge: The connection between contraception and the “LGBT community”
Let’s build a bridge. No—not that bridge. Not a warm, fuzzy, attention-getting bridge between the Church and the ‘LGBT Community,’ whose architects are misguided masters of error, ambiguity, confusion, and dissent. Don’t waste your time. […]