Letters From the Synod-2018: #10

Edited by Xavier Rynne II

It is crucial that there be a clean, transparent, and agreed-upon mechanism by which the Synod fathers can register their judgments issue by issue. Continue Reading »

16 Oct 2018

The Catholic Crisis, In Perspective

by George Weigel

Some needed perspective on the Catholic circumstance in the United States.  Continue Reading »

10 Oct 2018

Steve Bannon's European Movement

by Alessandra Bocchi

Bannon’s Movement seeks to unify all anti-establishment factions and transcend the left-right dichotomy. Continue Reading »

10 Oct 2018

Looking for Fathers

by Mark Bauerlein

Featuring C. C. Pecknold on the Pennsylvania Grand Jury report. Continue Reading »

5 Oct 2018

Theological Deplorables

by John Waters

The current attempt to elevate what is called pastoralism above what is called doctrinalism is bogus of its nature and disingenuous in its intent.  Continue Reading »

4 Oct 2018

Courage in the Slough of Despond

by George Weigel

The courage of the Wojtyła electors forty years ago should be an antidote to the despair some Catholics feel today. Continue Reading »

3 Oct 2018

Catholicism After 2018

by R. R. Reno

Theodore McCarrick has been stripped of his status as cardinal for pursuing young men throughout his clerical career. “­Uncle Ted” liked to take his “nephews” to bed with him. The public revelations of this fact evoked outrage. It was not so much that a churchman sinned as that he did so . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 2018

Magisterial Irresponsibility

by Steven A. Long

Luis Francisco Cardinal ­Ladaria Ferrer of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) has announced to the bishops Pope Francis’s approval of new material addressing capital punishment in the Catechism of the Catholic Church (number 2267). The inserted passage notes “an . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 2018

The Spirit of Vatican I

by Russell Hittinger

Vatican I:  The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church by john w. o’malley belknap, 320 pages, $24.95 In 1860 Pope Pius IX lost the papal states, which had been held by his predecessors for a thousand years. Four years later he issued the Syllabus of Errors. The eightieth and . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 2018

The Papal Foundation & McCarrick’s Conflict of Interest

by Matthew B. O’Brien

Did McCarrick and other abusers use the grant-making power of the Papal Foundation to curry favor and buy protection from Vatican officials? Continue Reading »

28 Sep 2018