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Love and the Skeptic
Saint Valentine’s Day is a good time to remind ourselves that human love is an imitation, a reflection, of the divine love that created all […]
St. Pope John Paul II
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Reflections on Dilexi Te, the first magisterial document of Leo XIV’s papacy
Pope Leo XIV’s first magisterial document of his papacy, Dilexi Te (“I have loved you”), has understandably generated a lot of interest. An apostolic exhortation is a fairly low-level document in terms of the classical criteria for […]
Essay
The Legacy of Vatican II and the Problem of Religious Diversity
Editor’s note: The following is the concluding chapter (pp. 457-468) from the recently published book Jesus Christ, Scandal of Particularity: Vatican II, a Catholic Theology of Religions, Justification, and Truth (En Route Books and Media, […]
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Understanding the feminine vocation with Edith Stein
Is feminism good or bad? What is feminism? What is the role of women in culture? Or even more fundamentally: what is a woman? Arguments over these questions have become so contentious that it’s dangerous […]
Analysis
Why Ratzinger and Wojtyła were correct about liberation theology
The death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI on the final day of 2022 presents a continued opportunity to revisit and evaluate his legacy as a theologian, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the […]
Analysis
The influence and impact of Fides et Ratio at 25
On September 14, 1998, Pope St. John Paul II issued Fides et Ratio (“Faith and Reason,” Latin text, English translation), an encyclical letter on the relationship between faith and reason — or, to translate the […]
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WYD 2023 was a sign of great hope for the Church in the secularized West
This past week I was an eyewitness to hundreds of thousands of young Europeans and Americans adoring the Blessed Sacrament, waiting in long lines for confession, and proudly professing their love for the Church. In […]
Features
Who is Grzegorz Ryś, Archbishop of Lodz, Poland?
On September 30th, Pope Francis will create twenty-one new cardinals, eighteen of whom are under eighty and will therefore have the right to vote in a future conclave. They include Grzegorz Ryś, Archbishop of Lodz, […]
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John Paul II’s Centesimus Annus and today’s debates
In a recent article on the social doctrine of John Paul II in the Jesuit journal La Civiltà Cattolica, Father Fernando de la Iglesia Viguiristi, SJ, had this to say about one facet of John […]
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The progressive revolution’s continued control of the ecclesial narrative
Vatican II was unique in the history of councils insofar as the crisis it was called to address was not a specific and well-defined theological heresy. Rather, it was called to address the crisis presented […]