Easy Recipes for an Unhappy Life
by Mark BauerleinFr. Robert Spitzer, S.J., joins the podcast to discuss his new book The Moral Wisdom of the Catholic Church: A Defense of Her Controversial Moral Teachings. Continue Reading »
Philip Pilkington on Generational Conflict
by R. R. RenoPhilip Pilkington joins R. R. Reno to talk about the effects of declining birthrates on social stability. Continue Reading »
Soap and Oprah
by Carl R. TruemanA new document indicates just how weak Roman Catholic moral theology could become. Continue Reading »
A Distinction without Discipline
by Dan HitchensIf Crosby’s reform were enacted, priests would have to judge the souls of their flock. The remarried would be divided into those whose lives have a Dostoevskian tragic resonance, and those who are merely “common adulteresses.” This cruel charade would collapse before it began. Continue Reading »
Catholics Face a Choice
by Matthew SchmitzWill Catholics uphold the Church's teaching that the divorced and remarried cannot be admitted to communion, or will they reject it? Pope Francis has brought this question before the Church, though he refuses to formulate it so starkly. Continue Reading »
Crime, Punishment, and Amoris Laetitia
by John F. CrosbyThe conversation on Amoris Laetitia continues. All the language used by Francis of “integrating” the remarried into the Church originates in the reforms of Pope John Paul II. Continue Reading »
Whose hate? Which victims?
by Carl R. TruemanDoes hate have limits? Sadly, yes, it does. Continue Reading »
What a Divorced and Remarried Catholic Wants from the Synod
by Luma SimmsRegina Einig interviewed Luma Simms, author of My Plea, for the German newspaper Die Tagespost, in which a version of this interview first appeared.As a divorced and remarried Catholic mother who wishes to bring up her children in the faith, do you think that the Church could make things easier . . . . Continue Reading »
Why Gay Marriage is not like Divorce
by Dominic Legge, O.P.Thomas Reese, writing about gay marriage in the National Catholic Reporter, argues that the Catholic bishops of the United States should “admit defeat and move on.” They’ve done this before, he claims: Think of “their predecessors who opposed legalizing divorce but lost,” and who then . . . . Continue Reading »
A Pastoral Failure
by Matthew SchmitzI was recently accused of (actually, praised for, but it seemed to me an accusation) supporting “marriage equality”—a slogan that indicates whoever uses it fails to understand either of the terms it combines. The occasion for this slander was, rather ironically, a piece I had written rejecting calls for gay marriage. The piece was misread, I think, because I had positive things to say about gay people and about the love present in countless gay relationships. Apparently this fact was significant enough that there was no need to attend to my actual conclusion. Continue Reading »
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