Not By Scripture Alone
by Mark BauerleinCasey Chalk joins the podcast to discuss his new book The Obscurity of Scripture: Disputing Sola Scriptura and the Protestant Notion of Biblical Perspicuity.
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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 »
The Battle for the Body
by Carl R. TruemanThe battle for the status of the body is as much a battle for the imagination as it is for doctrine. Continue Reading »
The Blessed Ulma Family and Our Catholic Moment
by George WeigelThe Ulmas lived the parable of the Good Samaritan literally. Continue Reading »
The Future Is Classical
by Mark BauerleinClassical schools are an experiment that has just begun, small now but with all the ingredients of success. Continue Reading »
Grace at Electric Picnic
by John DugganThis 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 »
Dublin’s Dilemma
by John DugganAs 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 »
The Fatal Message of Synodal Activism
by Martin GrichtingWhat 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 »
From Westerplatte to Lisbon . . . and Everywhere Else
by George WeigelJohn 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 »
Synodality and the Spirit of Truth
by Michael Hanby“Facts and great personages in world history occur, as it were, twice . . . the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.” The Synod on Synodality seems destined to confirm Marx’s words (themselves a revision of Hegel). The tragedy arises from the deep theological and philosophical division . . . . Continue Reading »
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