The Dispatch
The Vatican’s Viganò Problem
The Prefect of the Secretariat for Communication of the Holy See has a communication problem. Specifically, he has a hard time telling the truth. […]
Pope Francis
The Dispatch
The theological formation of Pope Francis
by Elise Harris | CNA […]
Analysis
Liturgical Vision vs. Liturgical Visions: Vatican II, Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Sarah
Why I believe that the loss of the sense of the sacred is the primary reason why we have lost millions of Catholics to faithful […]
The Dispatch
Cardinal Zen: Chinese Catholics’ “continuous harassments…would take volumes to be narrated.”
I would like the express my gratitude to Cardinal Zen for agreeing to answer a few questions for Catholic World Report at this crucial moment in the history of the Catholic Church in China. Over […]
Clark on China
The Catholic Church in China: Historical context and the current situation
Chinese Catholics—“above” and “underground”—view themselves as part of “one suffering Catholic Church.” Will the Vatican’s present negotiations with China help or hinder those struggling to […]
Features
Pope Francis and clericalism
Despite his repeated and vehement denunciations of clericalism, Francis’ more general remarks about the laity sometimes nevertheless exhibit a sort of clerical chauvinism. […]
Books
A Papacy of Contradictions
Veteran journalist Phil Lawler asks hard questions in Lost Shepherd about where Pope Francis is—or isn’t—leading the Catholic Church. […]
The Dispatch
New CDF document is clear and succinct, but why was it needed?
Titled “Placuit Deo,” the new document, although quite short, effectively reaffirms the Christocentric focus of Dominus Iesus. […]
Essay
The Francis Reformation
We will not get far by asking whether the Church is to be a Church of the poor and a Church of the merciful. Of […]
Essay
Things To Come: Faith, State, and Society in a New World
“There are no new paradigms; no new hermeneutical principles; no revolutions in thought; and no possible concordats with the world and its alibis, that can […]