When I was three years old, I asked my pregnant mother whether Jesus could come into me as my baby brother had come into her. It was my inept way of saying that I wanted to accept Jesus into my heart as my personal lord and savior, an idea to which my Evangelical church had already introduced me. . . . . Continue Reading »
So much for the “new paradigm.” With the Church now mired in its most severe crisis since the Protestant Reformation, the heady talk of last spring now seems as distant as the “Catholic moment” or the “springtime of evangelization.” Rightly or wrongly, the idea of a gauzy mercy without . . . . Continue Reading »
We need a new understanding of what is at stake. Continue Reading »
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 »
Some needed perspective on the Catholic circumstance in the United States. Continue Reading »
Bannon’s Movement seeks to unify all anti-establishment factions and transcend the left-right dichotomy. Continue Reading »
Featuring C. C. Pecknold on the Pennsylvania Grand Jury report. Continue Reading »
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 »
The courage of the Wojtyła electors forty years ago should be an antidote to the despair some Catholics feel today. Continue Reading »
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 »
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