Features
Christ’s question to us during Holy Week: “Do you love me?”
Much of Lent is focused on Baptism, where our love affair with the Triune God had its beginning. The baptismal font, however, leads inexorably to […]
Vatican II
Books
Douthat’s lament: Francis “must have known that it did not have to be this way”
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 […]
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 […]
Analysis
Critics misrepresent Cardinal Sarah’s call for reverence in receiving Holy Communion
Why are so many avoiding the key question: Why has belief in Christ’s Real Presence in the Eucharist diminished in recent decades? […]
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 […]
The Dispatch
In praise of Fr. Francis Canavan’s prophetic eye
Fun Is Not Enough, a collection of pithy essays originally published in the catholic eye, is full of wit, wisdom, and more than a few […]
The Dispatch
“America” magazine’s survey of women in the Church
An intriguing finding of the survey is that most Catholic women consider the care for the poor and the Eucharist as the two most essential […]
Features
Douthat-Faggioli debate highlights two key, contested issues of Francis’ pontificate
Two major issues—the meaning and significance of Vatican II and the doctrinal implications of AL’s moral logic of pastoral reasoning—will continue to present the Church […]
Features
“Ecclesial reception” in the Era of Francis
Out of more than 5,000 bishops in the universal Church, I don’t think we can consider supporters of the problematic practice of permitting divorced and remarried […]
Analysis
Pope Francis and Ideology
It is unfortunate that the Holy Father’s overall emphasis on legalism is such that he never addresses the antithesis of legalism, namely, antinomianism, leaving us […]