John W. O’Malley’s new history of the First Vatican Council provides an impartial and detailed account that offers both historical context and insight into the […]
A consideration of the two Apostles we honor today, a reflection on the Petrine office in the Church, and a challenge to live the implications […]
In an exclusive CWR interview, the former prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith discusses tensions over the proposed reception of Holy […]
Revered and Reviled squarely faces the problem that Vatican I presents, and has always presented about papal primacy. […]
The basic dynamic of this pontificate is quite clear, and it leaves far too much unclear. […]
Cultural radicalism rejects tradition, and therefore rejects everything except immediate impressions, abstract ideology, and naked will. That’s no way to build anything solid, let alone […]
It’s not possible to know the Risen Lord and to indulge in despair. […]
To Change the Church: Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism seeks to make sense of a pontificate that began with great promise but has […]
Veteran journalist Phil Lawler asks hard questions in Lost Shepherd about where Pope Francis is—or isn’t—leading the Catholic Church. […]
Decentralization by no means guarantees better governance, but is much more theologically, historically, and practically defensible than the Roman centralization and personality cult of the […]
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