Synodality Upended

by C. C. Pecknold

The Holy See's intervention last Monday sounded like a hard reversal of Rome's synodal message. Continue Reading »

19 Nov 2018

The Vatican Intervention in Baltimore

by Philip Lawler

The Vatican has left the US hierarchy in an impossible position. Continue Reading »

16 Nov 2018

A Conversation Between Two Converts

by Julia Yost and Matthew Schmitz

An excerpt from the book Mind, Heart, and Soul: Intellectuals on the Path to Rome.  Continue Reading »

12 Nov 2018

Restoring Trust

by J. D. Flynn

The 2018 Fall General Assembly of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops may be one of the most important meetings in the history of American Catholicism. Continue Reading »

9 Nov 2018

To the Bishops, Before Their General Assembly

by Jayd Henricks

The Church can only be healed if evil is exposed. Continue Reading »

9 Nov 2018

Whose Synodality?

by Ephraim Radner

Perhaps there is something that Catholics and Anglicans can learn from each other about “synodality.” But we have to be serious about what and who we are talking about. Continue Reading »

7 Nov 2018

Roots of Catholic Anger

by George Weigel

Good priests and bishops deserve our support, affection, and gratitude as they, like the rest of us, deal with the fallout of this season of humiliation and purification. Continue Reading »

7 Nov 2018

Courage in the Gayborhood

by Sebastian Alvarez

Why does St. Paul’s, a parish that otherwise fosters a genuinely Catholic parish life, openly flout Catholic sexual morality? Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2018

Peter Damian’s Counsel

by Charlotte Allen

Sometime during the second half of the year 1049, Peter Damian, prior of the hermitage of Fonte Avellana in what is now the Italian region of Marche near the Umbrian border, wrote a lengthy letter to newly installed Pope Leo IX. The letter concerned “the befouling cancer of sodomy,” which Peter . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2018

In Rare Form

by Jennifer Reeser

Devotions by timothy murphy north dakota state, 192 pages, $24.95 Not a knee is padded in Timothy Murphy’s new collection. This is no minor point, considering that knee remains for the length of the volume perpetually bent and on the floor. Like the poet himself, these ­poems—religious . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2018