The Future Is Classical

by Mark Bauerlein

Classical schools are an experiment that has just begun, small now but with all the ingredients of success.  Continue Reading »

19 Sep 2023 0

Grace at Electric Picnic

by John Duggan

This year’s biggest Electric Picnic controversy concerns a folk band called the Wolfe Tones, whose members have been writing and singing Irish rebel songs for decades. Continue Reading »

12 Sep 2023 0

Dublin’s Dilemma

by John Duggan

As a result of Catholicism's demise, are the Irish no longer governed by a firm, inherited sense of right and wrong? If the answer is “yes,” then Ireland cannot claim that it wasn’t warned. Continue Reading »

9 Aug 2023 0

The Fatal Message of Synodal Activism

by Martin Grichting

What is currently being pursued under the name of “synodality” represents the continuation of the Tridentine hierarchy-centered understanding of the Church. Such immobilism risks making Christianity irrelevant. Continue Reading »

7 Aug 2023 0

From Westerplatte to Lisbon . . . and Everywhere Else

by George Weigel

John Paul II did not pander to the young. He understood from experience that deep within the youthful heart is a yearning for meaning, for nobility, for greatness.  Continue Reading »

2 Aug 2023 0

What Henri de Lubac Would Think of the Synod on Synodality

by Robert P. Imbelli

De Lubac warned of the danger of transforming the search for the kingdom of God into a search for secular social utopias. The participants of the ongoing Synod on Synodality could learn from his Christocentric vision of the Church. Continue Reading »

28 Jul 2023 0

Looking for the Lord Jesus in Lisbon

by George Weigel

What bishop Aguiar did not explain was why fulfilling the Great Commission through evangelization and catechesis—hitherto understood to be essential components of any World Youth Day—was “proselytism.”  Continue Reading »

26 Jul 2023 0

The Greatest Catholic Opera

by Algis Valiunas

Opera has traditionally had little interest in Christian orthodoxy. So when composer Francis Poulenc wrote his masterpiece, Dialogues des Carmélites, the work’s celebration of heroic piety defied the secular spirit of the art form. Continue Reading »

14 Jul 2023 0

The “Synodal Process”: Talking a New Church into Being?

by George Weigel

Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, S.J., Synod-2023’s relator general, said that the Synod’s purpose was not changing Catholic teaching but “listening.” To which one must ask, “listening to what end”? Continue Reading »

12 Jul 2023 0

Archbishop Fernandez, Preacher of Chaos

by Dan Hitchens

Archbishop Fernández's appointment to Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith is a terrifyingly bad joke—in some ways the culmination of the decade-long tragicomedy of this pontificate. Continue Reading »

6 Jul 2023 0