SEMINARY REFORM I commend Thomas Berg (“Getting Formation Right,” December) for his suggestions for reforming the seminary system in light of the new Ratio Fundamentalis. Nevertheless, by failing to consider the time before and after seminary as a part of the solution, his proposals for . . . . Continue Reading »
The current regime in Rome will damage the Catholic Church. Pope Francis combines laxity and ruthlessness. His style is casual and approachable; his church politics are cold and cunning. There are leading themes in this pontificate—mercy, accompaniment, peripheries, and so forth—but . . . . Continue Reading »
The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century by helena rosenblatt princeton, 368 pages, $35 Liberalism, says Helena Rosenblatt, has grown ineffective as it has forgotten the role that public morality, virtue, and conceptions of the common good played in its . . . . Continue Reading »
Franco: Anatomy of a Dictator by enrique moradiellos i.b.tauris, 264 pages, $30 Not long after the successful Allied landings in Normandy in June 1944, Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain, removed a photograph of Adolf Hitler from his desk in the Pardo Palace in Madrid. He promptly replaced . . . . Continue Reading »
Standing up for the mob’s victims should be on the Church’s agenda for the justice of all people, especially when its victims are her own children. Continue Reading »
Peter Steinfels has done the Catholic Church a tremendous service by telling some disturbing truths about the August 2018 Pennsylvania grand jury report. Continue Reading »
Cuomo, through his murderous support for abortion legislation, coupled with his consistent invocation of his own Catholic identity, has crossed over from private failing to public witness against the faith. Continue Reading »
Bishop Foys and Archbishop Joseph Kurtz lived out our elite’s moral ideal by condemning their own children in the interest of self-realization and social order. Continue Reading »
Catholic ecclesiastics and Catholic intellectuals don’t seem to understand that the secular liberal world, rather than willing to make a place for them if they go along with secular liberal pieties, is in a war against them. Continue Reading »
The morality of tyrannicide is not much discussed in today’s kinder, gentler Catholic Church, but the subject once engaged some of Catholicism’s finest minds. Continue Reading »
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